John Carroll, American archbishop (born 1735)

John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)

First Catholic bishop in the US (1735–1815)

John Carroll was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Baltimore, then the only diocese in the nascent United States, from 1789 to 1815. He became the first Archbishop of Baltimore in 1808, up to which point Carroll had also administered the entire U.S.…