About Mother Mary Assumpta Long, OP

Mother Mary Assumpta Long, OP, is the Prioress General of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She holds a STL in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and has taught at the elementary, secondary and junior college levels. Mother Assumpta is a former President of the Forum of Major Superiors; 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, along with three other Sisters, founded the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist; in the intervening 17 years the Community has grown from four Sisters to over 120. The Sisters currently teach in elementary and secondary schools in Michigan and six other states across the country.