Francis Patrick Kenrick was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania (1842–1851) and the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland(1851–1863).

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore is the archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in northern and Western Maryland in the United States. It is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore.