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Nov 11, 2013 · He broke the color barrier in Baltimore’s St. Mary’s Seminary, at a time when segregation within and outside the Catholic Church was the norm. Fr. Uncles’ ultimate achievement, his ...
Charles Randolph Uncles, SSJ (November 8, 1859 — July 20, 1933) was an African-American Catholic priest. In 1891, he became the first such priest ordained on US soil. Two years later, he co-founded the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (a.k.a. the Josephites), formed to minister to the African American community. Biography
- St. Joseph Seminary, Baltimore
- November 8, 1859, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- Priest
- July 20, 1933 (aged 73), New Windsor, New York, U.S.
Mar 2, 2020 · Uncles was the first black ordained priest in the United States and one of the founding members of the American Josephites. He was ordained in 1891 by Cardinal Gibbons in the Baltimore Cathedral.
Feb 28, 2020 · Uncles was the first black ordained priest in the United States and one of the founding members of the American Josephites. He was ordained in 1891 by Cardinal Gibbons in the Baltimore Cathedral.
- Baltimore, MD
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Dec 19, 2018 · Charles Randolph Uncles was born Nov. 8, 1859 in East Baltimore. This was five years after Father James Healy, considered by some as the first Catholic priest of African descent to work in the United States, who was ordained in Paris in 1854.
Father Charles Randolph Uncles, was the son of Lorenzo and Anna Marie Uncles, of East Baltimore. In 1891, he became one of the first black Americans to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest, in the United States. Fr. Uncles was an extremely bright student in high school and college.
Nov 19, 2021 · Father Charles Randolph Uncles was the first African American man ordained to the priesthood in the United States. Baltimore Cardinal James Gibbons ordained him and nine other men as priests on Dec. 19, 1891.
