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John Carroll SJ (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815) was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Baltimore, the first diocese in the new United States. He later became the first Archbishop of Baltimore.
John Carroll (born Jan. 8, 1735, Upper Marlboro, Maryland [now in the U.S.]—died Dec. 3, 1815, Baltimore) was the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States and the first archbishop of Baltimore. Under his leadership, the Roman Catholic church became firmly established in the United States.
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This December, we remember in a special way our nation’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll, who died 200 years ago, on Dec. 3, 1815. Born in the Prince George’s County town of Upper Marlboro in 1736, John was the fourth of seven children of Daniel Carroll and Eleanor Darnall.
Carroll, JOHN, first bishop of the hierarchy of the United States of America, first Bishop and Archbishop of Baltimore, b. at Upper Marlboro, Md., January 8, 1735; died in Baltimore, December 3, 1815.
Bishop John Carroll is a statue by the sculptor Jerome Connor commemorating Archbishop John Carroll, the founder of Georgetown University and the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
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Apr 22, 2008 · Rome conceded; the American priests elected John Carroll, with only one abstention — we can guess who that was — and our man was appointed bishop of Baltimore in 1789.
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Aug 15, 2016 · On this day in 1790, the Feast of the Assumption, a religious holiday, John Carroll became the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
