America's First Bishop was Friends with Benjamin Franklin


Author: Katie Prejean McGrady November 7, 2025 Duration: 22:24
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America's First Bishop was Friends with Benjamin Franklin

John Carroll, born in Maryland, was sent to Europe to study, became a Jesuit, and eventually made his way back to the U.S. and somehow ended up on an epic roadtrip to Canada with Ben Franklin. That's not the premise of a strange buddy-cop film, but instead the story of Bishop John Carroll, who was appointed the first Bishop of Baltimore on this day, in 1789, by Pope Pius VI.


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