 Bishop Carroll - Father Baden
Archbishop John Carroll was born in the colony of Maryland in 1735. He was educated in
Belgium and ordained a Jesuit priest in France, but he returned to the United States when
the Jesuits were suppressed in France in 1773. After 16 years of missionary work, he was
elected Bishop by the priests of this country, and then appointed by Rome the first
American Bishop. All of America, with her 30 priests and 30,000 Catholics, was his
Diocese. He founded Georgetown University in 1791 and was raised to Archbishop in 1808.
Archbishop Carroll died in Baltimore in 1815.
Father Baden, born in France in 1768 Stephen Theodore Baden, studied for the priesthood in
Europe, but was ordained in 1793 in Baltimore by Bishop John Carroll, the first priest to
be ordained in this country He was a missionary and earned the title, "Apostle of
Kentucky." He also bought much of the land used for the development of the early
Church in America, including the land on which the University of Notre Dame stands. He is
buried there in Baden Chapel. He died in 1853.
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