Alfred Allen Curtis

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Alfred Allen Paul Curtis (born July 4, 1831 in Pocomoke City , Maryland , † July 11, 1908 in Baltimore ) was an American clergyman and bishop of Wilmington .

Life

Alfred Allen Curtis was originally a member of the Episcopal Church , where he was ordained a priest in 1859 . During a trip to England he was inducted into the Roman Catholic Church on April 18, 1872 by John Henry Newman . On December 19, 1874, he received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Baltimore .

Pope Leo XIII. appointed him Bishop of Wilmington on August 3, 1886 . The Archbishop of Baltimore , James Gibbons , ordained him episcopal on November 14th of that year ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Saint Augustine , John Moore , and the Bishop of Wheeling , John Joseph Cain .

In his ten-year term of office he promoted the establishment of religious orders. So he established his own pastoral care for African American Catholics, which he passed on to the Josephites . St Joseph's Church in Wilmington was built for this purpose and supplemented by an orphanage and a parish school. Curtis won over the Benedictines and the Ursulines to establish branches in the diocese. With the support of Katharine Maria Drexel , who has now been canonized , he founded an industrial school in Clayton .

Pope Leo XIII. accepted his renunciation of the Diocese of Wilmington on May 23, 1996 and appointed him Titular Bishop of Echinus on June 2 of the same year . In 1897 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Curtis died in Baltimore. He found his final resting place in the enclosure of the Visitation Monastery he founded in Wilmington.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b James McSweeny:  Diocese of Wilmington . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 15, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1912.
  2. ^ A Brief History of the Diocese of Wilmington. In: Homepage. Diocese of Wilmington , accessed January 13, 2015 .
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Andrew Becker Bishop of Wilmington
1886–1896 		John J. Monaghan
personal data
SURNAME Curtis, Alfred Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curtis, Alfred Allen Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman and Bishop of Wilmington
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Pocomoke City , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1908
Place of death Baltimore