Catholic United States History

This bingo card has a free space and 29 words: Archbishop John Carroll (1735–1815): The first bishop and archbishop in the US, key in organizing the church., Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange (c. 1794–1882): Founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Catholic order for Black women., Father Augustus Tolton (1854–1897): The first recognized African American priest., Dorothy Day (1897–1980): Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement., The first Catholic diocese in the United States was the Diocese of Baltimore, established in 1789, Isaac Jogues, a native of Orleans, France, was born on January 10, 1607. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1636, after which he traveled to New France (present-day Quebec) to begin work as a missionary to Native Americans., Santa Fe, New Mexico (1610): A major center for Spanish Franciscan missions., Maryland Colony (1634): Founded by English Catholics seeking religious freedom., St. Augustine, Florida (1565): The oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the continental US., Georgetown University was the first Catholic college, in 1789., By the mid-1960s, over 200,000 Catholic women were living and working in over 400 religious orders in the United States, two Catholic signers of the U.S. Constitution: Daniel Carroll of Maryland and Thomas FitzSimons of Pennsylvania, By the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, there were approximately 24,000 to 25,000 Catholics in the United States out of a total population of approximately 3 million, under colonial law, Roman Catholics were forbidden to conduct schools or to celebrate the mass in public, Founded on October 15, 1828 by four Sisters of Charity, St. Louis Hospital became the first hospital founded by women and the first hospital west of the Mississippi., 11 canonized saints of the United States, There have been 267 Popes, Pope Leo XIV is the first American Pope., John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden are the only Catholic presidents., There is a famous chapel in California that actually has a tiny, dedicated "cat door" for the chapel cat., In parts of Michigan and Ohio, Catholics have a special, centuries-old permission to eat muskrat (a small, aquatic rodent) on Fridays during Lent, because early settlers were starving and it was deemed a "fish" by local bishops., Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first person born in the U.S. to be named a saint. She also started the first free Catholic school for girls in the country, In early colonial days, when it was sometimes illegal to be Catholic, Jesuits ran secret schools in Maryland to teach children about their faith, Currently, 6 of the 9 Unites States Supreme Court justices are Catholic., The Catholic Church is one of the largest providers of education and healthcare in the U.S., running thousands of schools, hospitals, and nursing homes., College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN, was founded in 1912 by a group of Benedictine Sisters, Monsignor Joseph Francis Buh (1833–1922): An Austrian-born priest who served in central and northern Minnesota, known for his work with Ojibwe communities and as a pioneering missionary in the Duluth region, In the late 1800s and early 1900s, special railroad cars were used as traveling chapels to bring Mass to people in rural parts of America. and Sister Blandina Segale was a nun in the1800s who built schools and hospitals in the Wild West, even facing down famous outlaw Billy the Kid..

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