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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, then the only diocese in the nascent United States, from 1789 to 1815.
Archbishop John Carroll. After the completion of Healy Hall, an area was set aside for a future statue of Georgetown's founder. [1] On January 23, 1909, in a speech titled "A Dream Realized and a Dream Still Unfulfilled," Rev. John A. Conway, S.J. announced to Georgetown alumni at the annual Founder's Day banquet his wish that a monument to John Carroll, the founder of Georgetown University ...
There are four other statues that surround it, making up the points of the Maltese cross: Carroll, Father Mathew, Commodore John Barry, and Archbishop John Carroll. The fountain is located in West Fairmount Park. [40] In 1903, the state of Maryland added a bronze statue of Carroll to the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.
In the 1850s, the Archdiocese of Baltimore was acknowledged a Prerogative of Place, which confers to its archbishop some of the leadership responsibilities granted to primates in other countries. The Archdiocese of Baltimore was the first diocese established in the United States, in 1789, with John Carroll (1735–1815) as its first bishop. It ...
Archbishop John Carroll High School is a four-year secondary school part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, located in Radnor, Pennsylvania, [2] on a 55-acre campus. [3] The school currently enrolls approximately 685 students (2024).
In 1806, Carroll started construction of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Baltimore [17] As the Catholic population of the United States grew, the Vatican saw the need to create more dioceses. In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected four new dioceses from what now became the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The pope named Carroll as the first archbishop of ...
John Carroll (archbishop) (1735–1815), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, archbishop of Baltimore; John Carroll (bishop of Shrewsbury) (1838–1897), Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; John Patrick Carroll (1864–1925), bishop of Helena, Montana
Archbishop Carroll High School is named for John Carroll (1735–1815), the first bishop and subsequently the first archbishop of the United States. The school opened its doors to students on August 18, 1961. Carroll's first class graduated May 31, 1965.