James Gibbons
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James Gibbons was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Baltimore for more than forty years, from 1877 until his death in 1921. Created a cardinal in 1886, he was the second America
Gibbons Photo Standing
Cardinal Gibbons in May 1914
Cardinal Gibbons (pre-1915)
Cardinal Gibbons statue outside of the Baltimore Basilica (2008)
James Roosevelt Bayley
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James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark and as Archbishop of Baltimore.
James Gibbons
…Pius IX named Gibbons as coadjutor archbishop of Baltimore. He automatically succeeded as archbishop on October 3, 1877, after the death of Archbishop James Bayley. For the first twenty years of his administration, Gibbons had no auxiliary bishop to assist him. He therefore travelled extensively throughout the…
Bayley, 1855–1865
St. Andrew's, Harlem, where Bayley was rector after his Episcopalian ordination
The main church of the Certosa di San Martino, which impressed Bayley as the most beautiful in Naples
The nave and main altar of the Church of the Gesù in Rome, where Bayley was received into the Catholic Church