Carroll, John, D.D.
Carroll, John, D.D
a minister of the Methodist Church in Canada, was born on the Bay of Fundy, August 8, 1809. In 1818 his parents went to Toronto, where he was converted. In 1827 he entered the itinerant ranks, in which he occupied prominent stations in Canada, London, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, and elsewhere. He died in Toronto, Canada, December 13, 1884. For nearly thirty years he was chairman of the districts in which his appointments were located. He was a most faithful and laborious pastor. Besides the history of his early years, called My Boy Life, he published several small volumes, a number of pamphlets and magazine articles, especially Case and his Contemporaries (Toronto, 1867, 5 volumes). See Christian Guardian, December 17, 1884.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Carroll, John, D.D.
first Roman Catholic archbishop in the United States, was born at Upper Marlborough, Maryland, in 1735. He was educated at St. Qmer’s, France, and at the colleges of Liege and Bruges, in Belgium. In 1769 he was ordained priest, and became a Jesuit. When the order was dissolved in France he went to England, and became tutor to a son of Lord Stourton, with whom he traveled on the Continent. On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he returned to America, and took an active part on the side of the patriots. After the close of the war, the Roman Catholic clergy in the United States requested from the pope the establishment of a hierarchy, and Mr. Carroll was appointed vice-general. He fixed his residence at Baltimore. In 1789 he was named bishop, and in the ensuing year was consecrated. In 1791 he assumed the title of bishop of Baltimore. A few years before his death he was made archbishop. He died Dec. 3, 1815.