Benedict Joseph Flaget
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Benedict Joseph Flaget was a French-born Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Bardstown from 1808 to 1839. When the see was transferred to Louisville in 1839, he became Bishop of Louisville, remai
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget
John Carroll was an American Catholic prelate who served as the nation's first Catholic bishop, overseeing the Diocese of Baltimore, then the only diocese in the nascent United States, from 1789 to 18
Benedict Joseph Flaget
…They reached Philadelphia on March 26 and proceeded to Baltimore, arriving on March 29. After only two months in America, the Bishop of Baltimore, John Carroll, sent him to Fort Vincennes in the Indiana Territory to staff the Church of St. Francis Xavier, founded by Jesuit missionaries in 1748, before their…
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1806
Letter of Bishop Challoner to the Maryland Jesuits informing them of the suppression of the Society of Jesus
Certificate of Carroll's episcopal consecration (1790)
Chapel at Lulworth Castle in Dorset, England, where Reverend Carroll was consecrated bishop of Baltimore (1888)