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John Baptist Purcell (February 26, 1800 – July 4, 1883 [1]) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.He served as Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death in 1883, and he was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1850.
The first Catholic church in Dayton, Emmanuel Church, opened in 1837. [8] Soon additional parishes were formed in Hamilton and St. Martin, Brown County. Reverend Emmanuel Thienpont pioneered many parishes in the archdiocese. [9] Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Cincinnati on June 19, 1821, taking all of Ohio from the Diocese of Bardstown. [10]
1493 – Pope Alexander VI allows Spain to colonize the New World with Catholic missions; Christopher Columbus takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the New World; 1494 – First missionaries arrive in Dominican Republic; 1495 – The head of a convent in Seville, Spain, Mercedarian Jorge, makes a trip to the West Indies.
[4] Pope Pius VII in 1821 erected the Diocese of Cincinnati, taking all of Ohio from Bardstown. [5] The visit of Cincinnati Bishop John Purcell to central Ohio in June 1836, began the activity of the Catholic Church in the city of Columbus. After saying Mass in a house on Canal Street on June 5, Purcell asked the Catholic men in attendance to ...
San Miguel Mission, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, established in 1610, is the oldest church in the United States.. The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically faded in importance, with Protestant Americans moving west and taking over many formerly Catholic regions.
Women's History Review 25.4 (2016): 602–618. Wall, Barbra Mann. Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change (Rutgers UP, 2015). Wiest, Jean-Paul. "Bringing Christ to the nations: shifting models of mission among Jesuits in China." The Catholic Historical Review 83.4 (1997): 654–681. online; Williams ...
The Catholic faith also became integrated in the industrial and post-industrial middle class as it developed, in particular through the lay movements created following the 1891 Rerum novarum encyclical enacted by Pope Leo XIII, and which insisted on the social role of the Roman Catholic Church. [45]
The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday, 1985) (2nd edition, Notre Dame UP, 1992) extract. Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Parish: A History from 1850 to the Present (2 vol. Paulist, 1987) Dolan, Jay P. "Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics." Church History 41.3 ...