Colleges
...stitutions of higher learning in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Some were created in response to the increase in the city's population following both the Industrial Revolution and European immigration. Later, as women were given the right to vote in 1920, institutions that had educated young women expanded to include further
Archbishop John Carroll
...gy sent a letter to the pope requesting a new American apostolic. On June 9, 1783, Pope Pius VI made John Carroll the Superior of the Mission in the Thirteen United States of North America.[5] Based in Maryland, Carroll would come to rely on Father Ferdinand Farmer, S.J. as his