American College of The Immaculate Conception - Sponsorship and Governorship

Sponsorship and Governorship

The seminary was sponsored and overseen by the Catholic bishops of the United States. It was one of only two "national" seminaries for the United States in the sense of sponsorship by the conference of bishops as a whole, the other being the North American College in Rome. The American College was actually the older of the two institutions, founded two years before the "younger sister" in Rome.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops oversaw the college by way of the Committee for the American College, which functioned as a board of directors. Fourteen U.S. bishops sat on that committee, and the committee chair was the Most Reverend David Laurin Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay. The college also had an advisory board, made up of both lay and clerical supporters of the college.

At the close of the 2010-2011 academic year, there were nineteen seminarians in formation with the college. Their sponsoring dioceses were: Boise, Cheyenne, Congregation of Holy Cross, Green Bay, Lublin, Madison, Milwaukee, Orange, Portland (Oregon), Rochester, Salford, and Spokane.