In the fall of 1858, the Second Provincial Council of Saint Louis made a new determination for the Seminary and by way of experiment, another Vincentian institute, Saint Vincent College, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, served as a regional seminary with the entire Archdiocesan Seminary thus transferred there, the Major Seminary moving from Carondelet, the Minor Seminary from Perryville.
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Rice received his Masters Degree of Divinity from Kenrick School of Theology in 1987, and then was ordained to the priesthood on January 3, 1987, by the late Archbishop of Saint Louis John L. May, who died a few years later of a brain tumor.
During the period when the Knights of Labor, a strongly Roman Catholic labor union and the first national labor union, turned to violence, Kenrick vocally opposed them and condemned their actions.
William's cousin, Archibald Kenrick, was grandfather of Harriet and Florence Kenrick (cousins), the first and second wives of the British politician Joseph Chamberlain, and therefore also ancestor of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Sir Austen Chamberlain.