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Enduring
Faith received major funding
from the Catholic Communication
Campaign
of the United States Catholic
Conference. |
Timeline
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 Archbishop
Martin John Spaulding
convenes the Second
Plenary Council in
October 1866. The topic
addressed is the
evangelization of freed
slaves. |
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 Young John
Slattery is appointed
provincial of the Mill
Hill Missions in 1878. |
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 Daniel Rudd
organizes the first Black
Catholic Congress from
1889-1893. |
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 The
Josephites become an
independent society
separate from Mill Hills
in England in 1893. John
Slattary becomes the
first superior general. |
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 John Dorsey
is second ordained black
Josephite priest in 1902. |
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The first
Mill Hill Missionaries
arrive from England at
the request of Cardinal
Spaulding in 1871.
Augustus
Tolton becomes the first
recognized black priest
in America in 1886.
Charles
Uncles becomes the first
black priest ordained in
America in 1891. He is
Josephite priest.