Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore

The Archdiocese of Baltimore (Latin: Archidioecesis Baltimorensis ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. state of Maryland.

History

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is the oldest American diocese; be enjoying the Archbishop since 1858 a " Prerogative of Place", a ceremonial, precedence over all other bishops of the United States, however, is not connected with the honorary title of a primate. Baltimore was founded on November 26, 1784 established as Apostolic Prefecture of the United States (Latin Foederatarum Civitatum Americae Septemtrionalis ) and collected on November 6, 1789 bishopric. Collected on April 8, 1808 to the archbishopric, the dioceses of Boston, Bardstown, New York and Philadelphia were now separated from him and assigned to the new Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore. Already on July 11, 1820 lost more areas for reestablishment of the dioceses of Charleston and Richmond, which were assigned to other areas of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 1858 on August 15. After March 3, 1868, the Diocese of Wilmington was separated, the Archdiocese changed on July 22, 1939 his name on the Baltimore-Washington. After the Archdiocese of Washington, however, had been separated on 15 November 1947 as an independent diocese, it came back to the old name Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Diocese

Today the diocese territory includes the areas Allegany County, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Harford County, Howard County and Washington County.

Baltimore is a traditional cardinal 's seat and has two auxiliary bishops. The ecclesiastical province comprises the Diocese of Arlington, Diocese of Richmond, Diocese of Wheeling - Charleston and the Diocese of Wilmington.

Prefect Apostolic of Baltimore

  • John Carroll, SJ (November 26, 1784-6. November 1789 )

Bishop of Baltimore

  • John Carroll, SJ (November 6, 1789-8. April 1808 )

Archbishops of Baltimore

  • John Carroll, SJ (8 April 1808-3. December 1815 )
  • Leonard Neale, SJ (3 December 1815-18. June 1817 )
  • Ambrose Maréchal PSS (24 July 1817-29. January 1828 )
  • James Whitfield ( 29 January 1828-19. October 1834 )
  • Samuel Eccleston PSS (19 October 1834-22. April 1851 )
  • Francis Patrick Kenrick (19 August 1851-8. July 1863 )
  • Martin John Spalding (3 May 1864-7. February 1872 )
  • James Roosevelt Bayley (30 July 1872-3. October 1877 )
  • James Cardinal Gibbons (3 October 1877-24. March 1921 )
  • Michael Joseph Curley (10 August 1921-16. May 1947 )
  • Francis Patrick Keough ( 29 November 1947-8. December 1961 )
  • Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan (8 December 1961-2. April 1974)
  • William Donald Borders (25 March 1974-6. April 1989)
  • William Henry Cardinal Keeler (11 April 1989-12. July 2007)
  • Edwin Frederick O'Brien (12 July 2007-29. September 2011, then Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem ) Edwin Frederick O'Brien Cardinal (29 August 2011-20. March 2012) ( Apostolic Administrator )
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