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
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)
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Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in t
John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)
…The Vatican appointed him to several roles as leader of the American Catholic hierarchy, culminating in his appointment as archbishop. Carroll founded Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and St. John the Evangelist Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland, the first secular parish in the country. Carroll was born on January…
Georgetown University, c. 1850
Union army soldiers on Theodore Roosevelt Island with the Potomac River and the university visible in the background in 1861 at the beginning of the American Civil War
Patrick Francis Healy, the first African-American to become a Jesuit, helped transform the school into a modern university after the Civil War.