William Matthews (priest)
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William Matthews, occasionally spelled Mathews, was an American Catholic priest who was the fifth ordained in the United States and the first born in British America.
1868 engraving of Matthews
St. Patrick's Church, of which Matthews was pastor for 50 years, as it appeared between 1809 and 1870
St. Peter's Church on Capitol Hill, completion of whose former building Matthews oversaw
During Matthews' presidency, the towers of Old North Hall were completed.
Anthony Kohlmann
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Anthony Kohlmann was an Alsatian Catholic priest, missionary, theologian, and Jesuit educator. He played a decisive role in the early formation of the Archdiocese of New York, where he was the subject
William Matthews (priest)
…the time. By 1824, her physicians and attending priests, including Matthews, expected her imminent death. Matthews, along with Stephen Dubuisson and Anthony Kohlmann, turned to the German priest and reputed miracle worker Prince Hohenlohe who prescribed a novena for his cures to be effective; he also set aside the…
Anthony Kohlmann portrait
St. Peter's Church (pictured) was the only Catholic church in New York City when Kohlmann became its pastor in 1808.
Kohlmann founded both the New York Literary Institution and what was then St. Patrick's Cathedral (pictured), which were across the street from each other.
Early depiction of Georgetown College's campus, with Old North on the right.