John Carroll
BIRTH
Jan 8, 1735
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
DEATH
December 3, 1815
Baltimore, Maryland
FAMILY
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Carroll, John
(1735-1815)
John Carroll SJ (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Baltimore, the first diocese in the new United States. He later became the first archbishop of Baltimore. Until 1808, Carroll administered the entire American Catholic Church.
Born to an aristocratic family in colonial Maryland, Carroll spent most of his early years as a priest in Europe, teaching and serving as a chaplain. After returning to Maryland in 1773, he started organizing the Catholic Church in America with a small cadre of priests. The Vatican appointed him to several roles as leader of the American Catholic hierarchy, culminating in his appointment as archbishop. At request of Congress he accompanied Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and Charles Carroll of Carrollton to Quebec in an effort to have Canada unite with the thirteen colonies in the Revolution.
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.
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Birthplace of John Carroll Marker | 14735 Main St, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 | MARKER |
DIED:
Baltimore, Maryland
Dec 3, 1815
John Carroll was born on Jan 8, 1735 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Carroll with work or public activity as a statesman, clergyperson. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Carroll died on Dec 3, 1815 in Baltimore, Maryland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.