John McCloskey
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John McCloskey was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first American-born archbishop of New York from 1864 until his death in 1885.
McCloskey in 1876
St. John's College, New York City (1846)
St. Mary's Church, Albany, New York (2005)
The current St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan (2017)
Pope Pius IX
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Pope Pius IX was head of the Catholic Church from 16 June 1846 until his death in February 1878.
John McCloskey
…and of James Roosevelt Bayley, who later became archbishop of Baltimore. McCloskey was named the first bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Albany by Pope Pius IX on May 21, 1847. He was installed in Albany by Hughes on September 19, 1847. At the time of his arrival, the diocese covered 30,000 square miles (78,000…
Portrait by Adolphe Braun, 1875
1871 portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy
The birthplace house of Pius IX in Senigallia
Illustration showing Mastai-Ferretti at his first Holy Mass in 1819