Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore
Archdiocese of Baltimore Archidiœcesis Baltimorensis | |
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Catholic | |
Cathedral of Mary Our Queen | |
Co-cathedral | Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
Patron saint | Immaculate Conception[citation needed] St. Ignatius of Loyola[1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | William E. Lori |
Auxiliary Bishops | Adam J. Parker Bruce Lewandowski |
Bishops emeritus | Edwin Frederick O'Brien Denis J. Madden |
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The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore (Latin: Archidiœcesis Baltimorensis) is the archdiocese of the
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is the oldest archdiocese in the United States. The Vatican granted the archbishop of Baltimore the right of
As of 2020, the archdiocese had an estimated Catholic population of 525,000 with 198 diocesan priests, 193 religious priests and 169 permanent deacons in 139 parishes.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has two major seminaries: St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore and Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg.[3][4]
It was revealed in late 2016 that the Archdiocese of Baltimore had paid off numerous settlements since 2011 for abuse victims.[5]
Territory
The Archdiocese of Baltimore comprises the City of Baltimore and nine Maryland counties:
Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett–Harford, Howard, and Washington.
History
1600 to 1700
The first Catholic presence in the original British colonies in America was the proprietary colony of Maryland, established by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore in 1634. A Catholic himself, Calvert intended the colony to be open to English Catholics facing persecution at home.
In 1689, members of the growing Puritan population in Maryland staged a takeover of the colonial government and effectively outlawed Catholicism.[6][7] In 1691, alarmed at the violent conflicts in Maryland, the British Crown took over the colony from the Calvert family.
1700 to 1789
The new royal governor in Maryland imposed less sweeping restrictions on Catholics than those of the Puritan regime. These restrictions would stay in place until after the end of the American Revolution.
During the British colonial period, the small Catholic communities in the American colonies were under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Apostolic Vicariate of the London District in England.[8] The first Catholic church in Baltimore, St. Peter's, was dedicated in 1770.[9]
In November 1783, after the end of the Revolution, the Catholic clergy in Maryland petitioned the Vatican for permission to nominate a priest as
In November 1784, Pius VI erected the Prefecture Apostolic of the United States encompassing the entire country. Since Maryland had the largest Catholic population, Pope Pius VI placed the prefecture see in Baltimore and appointed Carroll as its first prefect apostolic.
1789 to 1800
Four years later, Pius VI elevated the prefecture into the Diocese of Baltimore, making it the first diocese solely within the United States.[10] St. Peter's, the only Catholic church in Baltimore, was designated as the pro-cathedral (temporary cathedral). The new Diocese of Baltimore covered the entire nation.
To train priests for his new diocese, Carroll asked the
The Vatican in 1795 appointed Reverend Leonard Neale as coadjutor bishop in Baltimore to assist Carroll.[13] In 1798, Carroll won a civil case in Pennsylvania that acknowledged his position as leader of the American church.[11] Carroll gave his approval to the founding of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, who in 1799 established Visitation Academy in Georgetown.[14][15]
1800 to 1821
Carroll ordained the first American-born Catholic priest, Reverend William Matthews, at St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral in Baltimore in 1800.[16] In 1806, Carroll started construction of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Baltimore[17] As the Catholic population of the United States grew, the Vatican saw the need to create more dioceses. In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected four new dioceses from what now became the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The pope named Carroll as the first archbishop of Baltimore.[10]
Name of new diocese | Territory taken from archdiocese in 1808 |
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Diocese of Boston | Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont |
Diocese of New York | State of New York and seven counties from New Jersey |
Diocese of Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania, Delaware, and seven counties from New Jersey |
Diocese of Bardstown | Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and the Old Northwest Territory |
After Carroll died in 1815, Neale automatically succeed him as archbishop of Baltimore. However, due to Neale's bad health,
Maréchal believed that his most pressing problem was a shortage of priests. It was aggravated by parish trustees who thought they had the power to assign these priests.[19] In some Irish parishes, the trustees would demand Irish priests, even if they were not qualified.[20] In 1820, Bishop Flaget of Bardstown warned Maréchal about a man claiming to be a priest who wanted to practice in the archdiocese. This individual produced positive letters of introduction from his bishop. However, when he was observed celebrating mass, it became clear that the so-called priest was incompetent. Maréchal later advised the Propaganda Fide (now the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) in Rome about this problem.[21]
1821 to 1850
Maréchal dedicated the completed Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral in May 1821.
On January 8, 1828, Reverend
In 1847, Eccleston was planning to disband the Oblate Sisters of Providence, but was dissuaded by Redemptorist Father Thaddeus Anwander.
1850 to 1866
The Vatican continued to erect new dioceses and vicariates out of the Archdiocese of Baltimore through the 19th century as the church evolved and grew in the United States.[31]
Name of new diocese | Date of new diocese | Territory taken from archdiocese |
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Diocese of Charleston | 1820 | North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia |
Diocese of Richmond | 1820 | Most of Virginia |
Vicariate Apostolic of Mississippi and Alabama | 1822 | Mississippi and Alabama |
Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory[31] | 1843 | From California to Alaska and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean |
Diocese of Richmond | 1858 | Alexandria, Virginia |
Diocese of Wilmington
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1868 | Delaware and the remaining Virginia counties |
Following the death of Eccleston, Bishop
1866 to 1900
In 1866, Spalding founded
After the end of the American Civil War in 1865, Spalding raised $10,000 in the archdiocese for relief efforts in the former Confederate States of America. He also took a special interest in the spiritual welfare of the African-Americans who had just been freed from slavery. Writing to Archbishop John McCloskey, Spalding said, "Four million of these unfortunates are thrown on our charity, and they silently but eloquently appeal to us for help."[36] He invited Reverend Herbert Vaughan and the Mill Hill Fathers from England to minister exclusively among freedmen. In October 1866, Spalding presided over the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore.[39][40]
After Spalding died in 1871, Pius IX appointed bishop James Bayley from the Diocese of Newark as the next archbishop of Baltimore in 1872.[41] He convened the Eighth Provincial Synod in 1875 and enacted new regulations on clerical dress, mixed marriages, and church music. Bayley consecrated the cathedral in 1876 and retired a large amount of archdiocesan debt. In May 1877, Pius IX selected Bishop James Gibbons of Richmond as coadjutor archbishop to assist the sick Bayley. After Bayley died in October 1877, Gibbons succeeded him as archbishop of Baltimore.[42] In 1884, Gibbons founded the House of the Good Shepherd in Baltimore, a reformatory for female criminals.[43]
1900 to 1940
After the end of
Bishop
In 1939,
1940 to 1989
After Curley died in 1947, Pius XII appointed Monsignor
In July 1961,
Following Shehan's retirement in 1974, Pope Paul VI named Bishop William Borders of the Diocese of Orlando as the 13th archbishop of Baltimore that same year.[57]
During his 15-year tenure in Baltimore, Borders divided the archdiocese into three
1989 to present
After Keeler retired in 2006, John Paul II replaced him with Archbishop
In 2012, Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport was appointed archbishop of Baltimore by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2019, Lori released “The Journey to Racial Justice: Repentance, Healing and Action.” The document acknowledged racism in the Catholic Church and suggested measures to combat it. That same year, Lori instituted an initiative for reporting allegations against any bishop in the archdiocese. The policy was drafted by the archdiocesan independent review board.
As of 2023, Lori is the current archbishop of Baltimore.
Plenary councils of Baltimore
The Plenary Councils of Baltimore were three national meetings of American Catholic bishops in the 19th century.
- First Plenary Council (1852) – The First Council published a decree requiring priests immigrating to the United States to provide letters of reference from their previous bishops before they could practise ministry in this country. The council also passed a requirement that Catholic engaged couples publish marriage banns.
- Second Plenary Council (1866) – The Second Council advocated the churching of women, a ceremony blessing women after childbirth, and setting age 10 as the age for first communion.
- Third Plenary Council (1884) – The Third Council set six holy days of obligation for Catholics and appointed a commission to draft a catechism.
Sexual abuse
In July 1995, John Merzbacher, a teacher at Catholic Community Middle School in south Baltimore, received four life sentences after being convicted of raping Elizabeth Ann Murphy at the school in the 1970s.[67] At the time, prosecutors also found evidence that Marzbacher sexually abused 13 other male and female students when he taught there.[68][67] Merzbacher died in prison in May 2023.[68]
In 2016, the archdiocese confirmed that it had paid a total of $472,000 to settlements to 16 former students of Archbishop Keough High School. The plaintiffs claimed to have been sexually abused as children by Reverend A. Joseph Maskell from 1967 to 1975.[69][70][71] After the archdiocese removed Maskell from ministry in 1994, he fled to Ireland.[72] He was never charged with any crimes."[73]
The archdiocese was featured in the 2017 Netflix documentary The Keepers, investigated sexual abuse by clergy at Archbishop Keough High School and the murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik in 1969.
A report released by Pennsylvania Attorney General
In February 2019, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh launched an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against the archdiocese.[77] Archbishop Lori provided Frosh with over 50,000 pages of internal documents dating back to 1965.[78]
In March 2019, Lori banned former Auxiliary Bishop
The State of Maryland investigation concluded in November 2022,[84] and its report was released in April 2023.[85][86][68] The report named 156 archdiocesan employees and clergy as having credible accusations of sexually abusing more that 600 children between 1940 and 2002.[85][68][87] At the same time as the release of the report, the Maryland General Assembly passed a bill to end a statute of limitations on abuse-related civil lawsuits.[88] This bill was signed into law by Governor Wes Moore in April 2023.[89]
On September 29, 2023, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore in the US filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to evade large anticipated financial losses in upcoming lawsuits permitted by the Maryland Child Victims Act starting on October 1.[90][91][92][93]
By April 2024, at least four people affiliated with the New Dimensions Ministries church in Salisbury were arrested on sex abuse charges.[94][95]
Episcopate
Prerogative of place
In 1858, the
Cathedrals
The first cathedral for the archdiocese was
St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral
St. Peters served as the base for the archbishop of Baltimore from 1790 to 1821. Since it never met the physical criteria for a proper cathedral and was always considered temporary, St. Peter's was termed a pro-cathedral. The building was razed in 1841.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was constructed between 1806 and 1821. It was the first cathedral in the newly independent United States and is considered the mother church of the country. It is a co-cathedral of the archdiocese.
Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
Mary Our Queen was started in 1954 and completed in 1959. It is a co-cathedral of the archdiocese.
Bishops
Prefect Apostolic of the United States
Bishop of Baltimore
Archbishops of Baltimore
- John Carroll (1808–1815)
- coadjutor archbishop1795–1815)
- Ambrose Maréchal (1817–1828)
- James Whitfield (1828–1834; coadjutor archbishop 1828)
- Samuel Eccleston (1834–1851; coadjutor archbishop 1834)
- Francis Patrick Kenrick (1851–1863)
- Martin John Spalding (1864–1872)
- James Roosevelt Bayley (1872–1877)
- James Gibbons (1877–1921) (Cardinal in 1886)
- Michael Joseph Curley (1921–1947)
- Francis Patrick Keough (1947–1961)
- Lawrence Shehan (1961–1974; coadjutor archbishop 1961) (Cardinal in 1965)
- William Donald Borders (1974–1989)
- William Henry Keeler(1989–2007) (Cardinal in 1994)
- Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre(Cardinal in 2012)
- William Edward Lori (2012–present)[97]
Current auxiliary bishops
- Adam J. Parker(2017–present)
- Bruce Lewandowski (2020–present)[97]
Former auxiliary bishops
- Alfred Allen Paul Curtis (1897–1908), previously appointed Bishop of Wilmington
- Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan (1908–1929)
- Thomas Joseph Shahan (1914–1932)
- John Michael McNamara (1927–1947), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Washington
- Lawrence Joseph Shehan (1945–1953), appointed Bishop of Bridgeport; later returned as Coadjutor Archbishop of Baltimore and succeeded to see (see "Archbishops" above); future Cardinal
- Jerome Aloysius Daugherty Sebastian (1953–1960)
- Thomas Austin Murphy (1962–1984)
- Thomas Joseph Mardaga(1966–1968), appointed Bishop of Wilmington
- Bishop of Raleigh
- Philip Francis Murphy (1976–1999)
- Bishop of Memphis and later Archbishop of Denver, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary (elevated to Cardinalin 1998)
- William Clifford Newman (1984–2003)
- Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee
- Gordon Dunlap Bennett (1997–2004), appointed Bishop of Mandeville
- William Francis Malooly(2000–2008), appointed Bishop of Wilmington
- Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts
- Denis J. Madden (2005–2016)
- Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston[97]
Other diocesan priests who became bishops
- Bishop of Natchezin 1841
- Bishop of Charlestonin 1843
- Henry B. Coskery, appointed Bishop of Portland in 1853; did not take effect
- Archbishop of Cincinnatiin 1883
- Bishop of Savannahin 1886
- Coadjutor Bishop of Chicagoin 1870
- Archbishop of Dubuquein 1900
- Mark Stanislaus Gross, appointed vicar apostolic of North Carolina in 1880; resigned the episcopate c. 1881
- Jeremiah O'Sullivan, appointed Bishop of Mobile in 1885
- Bishop of Detroitin 1888
- in 1898
- Bishop of Wheelingin 1894
- Bishop of Charlestonin 1916
- Bishop of Scrantonin 1938
- Thomas Joseph Toolen, appointed Bishop of Mobile in 1927
- Peter Leo Ireton, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond in 1935 and Bishop of Richmond in 1945
- Bishop of Charlestonin 1950 and later Bishop of Richmond in 1958
- Archbishop of New Orleansin 1965
- Michael William Hyle, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Wilmington in 1958 (succeeded to that see in 1960)
- John Selby Spence (priest of this archdiocese, 1933–1947), appointed auxiliary bishop of Washington in 1964
- Edward John Herrmann (priest of this archdiocese, 1947), appointed auxiliary bishop of Washington in 1966 and Bishop of Columbus in 1973
- Bishop of Saint Augustinein 2001
- F. Richard Spencer, appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA in 2010
Priests appointed, but never ordained, as bishops
Dominic Laurence Grässel appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Baltimore in 1793 but the notice arrived after his death
Notable individuals
- Sister Elizabeth Ann Seton - Seton founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, in Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1809. A year later, she opened the first free Catholic school for girls in the United States.[98] In 1975, Seton became the first American-born person to be canonized a saint.
- Mother Mary Lange - Lange opened a free school in her Baltimore home for African American children who were denied access to other schools in the city. In 1828, Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first sustained religious order for African American women in the United States. She also opened what would later become St. Frances Academy, the first Catholic School for African-American children in the United States. In 1991, the Catholic Church opened a cause of sainthood for Lange, naming her a "servant of God."[99]
Education
As of 2023, the Archdiocese of Baltimore had 40 elementary and middle schools and 18 high schools with a total student enrollment of approximately 24,000.[100]
High schools
School | Location | Gender | Diocesan or independent |
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Archbishop Curley High School | Baltimore | Boys | Diocesan |
Archbishop Spalding High School | Severn | Coed | Diocesan |
Bishop Walsh School | Cumberland | Coed | Diocesan |
Calvert Hall College | Baltimore / Towson | Boys | Independent |
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | Baltimore | Coed | Independent |
Loyola Blakefield | Baltimore / Towson | Boys | Independent |
Maryvale Preparatory School | Brooklandville | Girls | Independent |
Mercy High School | Baltimore | Girls | Independent |
Mount de Sales Academy | Baltimore / Catonsville | Girls | Independent |
Mount Saint Joseph College
|
Baltimore / Irvington | Boys | Independent |
Notre Dame Preparatory School | Baltimore / Towson | Girls | Independent |
Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School
|
Baltimore | Coed | Diocesan |
St. Frances Academy
|
Baltimore | Coed | Diocesan |
St. John's Catholic Preparatory | Buckeystown/ Frederick County | Coed | Independent |
St. Maria Goretti High School | Hagerstown | Coed | Diocesan |
St. Mary's High School | Annapolis | Coed | Diocesan |
The Catholic High School of Baltimore
|
Baltimore | Girls | Independent |
The John Carroll School | Bel Air
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Coed | Independent |
Churches
- Baltimore, Maryland[101]
- Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Emmitsburg, Maryland[102]
Media
The archdiocese began to publish its diocesan newspaper, The Baltimore Catholic Review in 1913 as the successor to the earlier diocesan publication The Catholic Mirror, published 1833 to 1908. The name has since been shortened to The Catholic Review. It changed from weekly to biweekly publication in 2012 and transformed again to a monthly magazine in December 2015.[103]
Ecclesiastical province
When the Archdiocese of Baltimore was erected in 1808, its
- Diocese of Arlington
- Diocese of Richmond
- Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
- Diocese of Wilmington
See also
- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
- List of Roman Catholic archdioceses(by country and continent)
- List of Roman Catholic dioceses (alphabetical)(including archdioceses)
- List of Roman Catholic dioceses (structured view)(including archdioceses)
- List of shrines
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