Henry P. Northrop

Henry Pinckney Northrop ( born May 5, 1842 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, † June 7, 1916 ibid ) was Bishop of Charleston.

Life

Henry Pinckney Northrop attended from 1853 to 1856, the Georgetown College in Washington, DC and from 1856 to 1860, the Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg. Northrop studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He received on 25 June 1865, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Was then appointed Henry Pinckney Northrop as a curate in New York City. In 1866 he was curate at St. Joseph 's Church. From 1868 to 1872 Northrop worked as a missionary in New Bern, North Carolina. In 1872 he became assistant to the rector of St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Charleston and Sullivan's vicar on Iceland. Henry Pinckney Northrop was from 1877 to 1882 pastor of St. Patrick in Charleston.

On September 16, 1881, he was named Pope Leo XIII. Titular Bishop of Rosalia and ordered him Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina. The Archbishop of Baltimore, James Gibbons, donated to him on January 8, 1882 episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Richmond, John Joseph Keane, and the Bishop of Wilmington, Thomas Albert Andrew Becker. On January 27, 1883, he was named Leo XIII. In addition to the Bishop of Charleston. Northrop resigned as Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina on February 4, 1888.