Mother Assumpta Long, OP

Mother Mary Assumpta Long, is the ex-Prioress General of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She holds a S.T.L. in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and has taught at the elementary, secondary and junior college levels.

She is a former President of the Forum of Major Superiors and has served on the boards of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

In the early 1990s she was invited by John Cardinal O’Connor to assist with the initial formation of the Sisters of Life in New York. In 1997, she and three other Sisters founded the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. The Community has grown from four to over 140 Sisters
with an average age of 37 years old!

They currently have Sisters teaching and serving as administrators in elementary and secondary schools, as well as at the university and seminary level in other states across the country. The Sisters also serve at the Pontifical North American College Seminary Library in Rome.