James Fitton (priest)
James Fitton (10 April 1805 in
priest and missionary, active in New England
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Biography
His father, Abraham Fitton, went to Boston from Preston, England; his mother was of Welsh origin and a Catholic convert. His primary education was received in the schools of his native city, and his classical course was made at Claremont, New Hampshire, at an academy conducted by Virgil Horace Barber, a Catholic convert. He learned theology from Bishop of Boston, Benedict Joseph Fenwick, by whom he was ordained priest, 23 December 1827.[1]
In 1828, he was sent as a missionary to the
Penobscot Indians began making annual visits to St. John’s Parish, camping on Vernon Hill before returning to Maine.[3]
He erected the Church of the Holy Name of Mary, Our Lady of the Isle at Newport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Church_(Newport,_Rhode_Island) In 1840, while pastor of the
Jesuits. In 1855 he was appointed by Bishop Fenwick pastor of the church of the Most Holy Redeemer in East Boston. Here he worked for the remaining twenty-six years of his life, and built four more churches.[1] He was instrumental in establishing the first Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States.[2]
References
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "James Fitton". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ [1], "To Preserve The Flame" (1984). Copyright St. John's Church, Temple Street
