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)
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.
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