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| | John Carroll (bishop) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bishop John Theodore Carroll, SJ, (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815) was the first bishop and archbishop in the United States — serving as the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. |
 | | Carroll was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and educated mainly at the College of St. Omer in French Flanders. |
 | | In 1791 Bishop Carroll convened the first synod of priests in the U.S. In 1806 he oversaw the construction of America's first Catholic Cathedral, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Maryland, which was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the United States Capitol. |
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