Christendom College was founded by Warren H. Carroll in 1977 with $50,000.
Carroll, who was a contributor at L. Brent Bozell Jr.'s Triumph magazine, decided to found Christendom in the aftermath of the Land O' Lakes conference in 1967.
Desiring a return to a Catholic university education adhering to the teachings of the Catholic Magisterium, Carroll and four founding faculty members, William Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, Kristin (née Popik) Burns, and Raymund P. O'Herron, started the college in an abandoned elementary school in Triangle, Virginia, housing a total of 26 students and five faculty.

Carroll decided not to accept federal funding at the college, choosing instead to rely on generous benefactors.
Similar to the reasonings at Hillsdale College, Carroll believed that the government might eventually intrude on Christendom's academic and religious freedom.


In 1997, Warren Carroll acknowledged the debt Christendom College owed to L. Brent Bozell, Jr. and Triumph magazine in his obituary for Bozell:
Christendom College was gestated in the womb of Triumph magazine and the Society for the Christian Commonwealth, Brent Bozell's creations.
All of our original five faculty were long-time subscribers to Triumph and three had attended the program in Spain.
Our current president and his wife and our executive vice-president had attended the program in Spain.
Two of the three original major donors who enabled our College project to be launched financially had attended the program in Spain, and the third had seen his son attend it.
Many of the original members of our Board of Directors were Triumph readers.
In a very fundamental sense Christendom College was a Triumph enterprise, and always will be.

In 1979, the College acquired its new campus in Front Royal, Virginia, overlooking the Shenandoah River.
 It still occupies this site today.
Christendom College was founded by Warren H. Carroll in 1977 with $50,000. Carroll, who was a contributor at L. Brent Bozell Jr.'s Triumph magazine, decided to found Christendom in the aftermath of the Land O' Lakes conference in 1967. Desiring a return to a Catholic university education adhering to the teachings of the Catholic Magisterium, Carroll and four founding faculty members, William Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, Kristin (née Popik) Burns, and Raymund P. O'Herron, started the college in an abandoned elementary school in Triangle, Virginia, housing a total of 26 students and five faculty.
Carroll decided not to accept federal funding at the college, choosing instead to rely on generous benefactors. Similar to the reasonings at Hillsdale College, Carroll believed that the government might eventually intrude on Christendom's academic and religious freedom.

In 1997, Warren Carroll acknowledged the debt Christendom College owed to L. Brent Bozell, Jr. and Triumph magazine in his obituary for Bozell:
Christendom College was gestated in the womb of Triumph magazine and the Society for the Christian Commonwealth, Brent Bozell's creations. All of our original five faculty were long-time subscribers to Triumph and three had attended the program in Spain. Our current president and his wife and our executive vice-president had attended the program in Spain. Two of the three original major donors who enabled our College project to be launched financially had attended the program in Spain, and the third had seen his son attend it. Many of the original members of our Board of Directors were Triumph readers. In a very fundamental sense Christendom College was a Triumph enterprise, and always will be.
In 1979, the College acquired its new campus in Front Royal, Virginia, overlooking the Shenandoah River.  It still occupies this site today.
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