No city is as integral to the history of the Catholic Church in the United States as Baltimore.

In 1789, Pope Pius VI established Baltimore as the first diocese in the new nation and appointed John Carroll as the first American bishop. Carroll’s brother Daniel was one of the signers of the Constitution, and his cousin Charles was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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