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John Carroll SJ (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815 [1]) 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. Until 1808, Carroll administered the entire U.S. Catholic Church.
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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Nov 6, 2019 · As the first bishop of the United States, Carroll had a major impact on Catholicism in America, but who was John Carroll and what were his connections to Philadelphia? John Carroll was born to Eleanor and Daniel Carroll on January 8, 1735 in Maryland.
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John Carroll was born into a wealthy Catholic family in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on January 8, 1735. His mother was Eleanor Darnall, a well-educated woman and an heiress in one of Maryland's most distinguished families. John's fatherwas Daniel Carroll, a successful merchant born in Ireland. John was the fourth of seven children born to the Carroll...
When Carroll returned to Maryland in the summer of 1774, he went to live with his mother in her home at Rock Creek. (His father had died in 1750.) For the next thirteen years, Carroll traveled around Maryland and Virginia, living the life of a missionary under the jurisdiction (authority) of the English Catholics. It was a demanding job, and he oft...
John Carroll was part of a family very influential in early American politics. Ties of blood and marriage linked the two principal branches of the Carroll family in the early eighteenth century. The names Charles, Daniel, Mary, and Eleanor were used repeatedly within the Carroll family, making it somewhat difficult to track the family lineage of th...
In his new role as leader of the Catholic Church in America, Carroll wrote an Address to the Roman Catholics of the United States of America, defending the loyalty of Catholics. Catholicism had long been a major religion in Europe associated with various monarchs. Many in America questioned Catholics' loyalty to the new nation without a monarchy. C...
In 1804, Pope Pius VII (1742–1823) added the administration of the Virgin Islands to Bishop Carroll's diocese. A diocese is the area over which a bishop has the authority and responsibility to direct Catholic clergy and church members. In 1805, the diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas were also added to Carroll's jurisdiction. (The United States h...
Books
Guilday, Peter. The Life and Times of John Carroll: Archbishop of Baltimore 1735–1815. New York: Encyclopedia Press, 1922. Reprint, Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1954. Hanley, Thomas O'Brien, ed. The John Carroll Papers.Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976. Kauffman, Christopher J. Tradition and Transformation in Catholic Culture: The Priests of Saint Sulpice in the United States from 1791 to the Present.New York: Macmillan, 1988. Kupke, Raymond J., ed. American Catholic...
Web Sites
"John Carroll." The Catholic Encyclopedia.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03381b.htm(accessed on August 12, 2005). "The Life of John Carroll." John Carroll University.http://www.jcu.edu/library/johncarr/jced.htm (accessed on August 12, 2005).
John Carroll. 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. His father, Daniel, born in Ireland, settled at Upper Marlboro, where he became a merchant, and married Eleanor Darnall, a relative ...
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.
Dec 10, 2015 · This past Sunday—December 6, 2015—the Archdiocese of Baltimore honored the legacy of Archbishop John Carroll, America’s first bishop, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his death on December 3, 1815.
