James Cardinal Gibbons was a senior-ranking American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as apostolic vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of North Carolina from 1868 to 1872, bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia from 1872 to 1877, and as ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland from 1877 until his death. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1886.
James Gibbons
Cardinal Gibbons in May 1914
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Gibbons statue outside of the Baltimore Basilica
Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
The Diocese of Raleigh is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church that covers eastern North Carolina in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archbishop of Atlanta.
Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral
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Basilica Shrine of St. Mary, Wilmington, North Carolina
Sacred Heart Church in Raleigh, the diocese's first cathedral