Carroll, John
CARROLL, JOHN (1735–1815), first Roman Catholic bishop of the United States (1789). Carroll attended Saint Omer College in French Flanders in 1748 and a few years later joined the...
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John Carroll (1735-1815) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in America. He designed the organization of the American Catholic Church, encouraged its educational activities, and emphasiz...
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John Carroll was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to a merchant father, Daniel Carroll, and a mother, Eleanor Darnall Carroll, descended from Lord Calvert, founder of the colony. He was educated at S...
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History has proven John Carroll to have been a kind of Parson Adams of the real, an itinerant minister who actually did manage to publish his sermons to universal acclaim. His exchange with history wa...
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Carroll, John
John Carroll
John Carroll