biography
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| (1735–1815)
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| biography:
| First US Roman Catholic bishop, born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, USA, the cousin of Charles Carroll. He studied in Europe, where he entered the Jesuit order (1753) and was ordained (1769). In 1774 he returned to Maryland to do pastoral work, and in 1776 joined in an unsuccessful mission to obtain a promise of Canadian neutrality in the Revolution. He became Bishop of Baltimore in 1790, and was made archbishop in 1808. As the Church's leader during a crucial early period, he brought in European missionaries, started three seminaries, and cofounded (1789) a college that became Georgetown University. |
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