Archbishop John Carroll

...would be made the city’s first bishop. Carroll would call together a provincial Council of all the new bishops in 1810 to lay out rules to administer their dioceses by.[15] During his time as bishop and archbishop, Carroll would also establish Georgetown University and encouraged the printing of the first

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Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church

...he church was established as a branch of St. John the Evangelist and has since grown to include a school and a convent. By 1966, the Catholic community had expanded, with 649 baptisms being performed as well as 86 marriages.[6] “Cardinal Dougherty with Cardinal Thomas Tien Ken-sin at Holy Redeemer

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Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs

...ng aid for Mary Brackett Willcox's collection to see what other correspondence we have in the archives. [1] Joseph Willcox, Ivy Mills, 1729-1866, Willcox and Allied Families, (Columbia: R.L. Bryan Company, 1983), 124 [2] Sara Trainer Smith, “Sketch of Mary Brackett Willcox of Ivy Mills, PA,” Records of the American

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