Hood Theological Seminary

found: NUCMC data from Livingstone College Archives for General college records, 1892-1995(name not given; Hood Seminary; Hood Theological Seminary; Theological Seminary)

found: Its WWW Home page, Oct. 3, 2003(Hood Theological Seminary; Livingstone College organized a Theological Department in 1892; 1904 the department was upgraded to a school; cornerstone of the building was laid in 1906, and the Seminary was named in honor of Bishop Hood; 1965 the Church erected a new building for the Seminary on land adjacent to the college; 1996, the GeneralConference of the AME Zion Church voted to separate the Seminary from the College; 2000, the Seminary began planning for separation from the College, and in 2001 the Seminary was granted its own charter by the State of North Carolina; January 2002, the Board of Bishops of the AME Zion Church declared that the separation was complete; Seminary and the College continue as sister institutions under the sponsorship of the AME Zion Church, but they operate independently of each other)