The Meadville Lombard Theological School, located in Chicago, is a Unitarian Universalist seminary. It is a result of a merger in the 1930s between a Unitarian and a Universalist institution. Meadville Lombard is one of two Unitarian Universalist seminaries and offers the following graduate degree programs: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Religion, Doctor of Ministry, and the dual degree of Master of Divinity/Master of Arts in Leadership Studies. The school's mission is to educate ministers to serve in Unitarian Universalist congregations or wherever else they are called to serve. The... degree programs are open to students of all faiths. Meadville Theological School was founded in 1844 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Most of the original funding came from a recent convert to Unitarianism, a wealthy businessman named Harm Jan Huidekoper. One of its best-known alumni was Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who played a prominent role in the growth of the Western Unitarian Convention. Meadville Theological School moved to Chicago and became affiliated with the University of Chicago in 1926. It began construction on its permanent building in 1929.
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