Ambrose Maréchal
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The Most Reverend Ambrose Maréchal, S.S. |
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| Archbishop of Baltimore | |
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| See | Archdiocese of Baltimore |
| Appointed | July 4, 1817 |
| Installed | December 14, 1817 |
| Term ended | January 29, 1828 |
| Predecessor | Leonard Neale, S.J. |
| Successor | James Whitfield |
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| Ordination | June 2, 1792 |
| Consecration | December 14, 1817 by Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus |
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| Born | August 28, 1764 Ingré, Orléanais, Kingdom of France |
| Died | January 19, 1828 (aged 63) Baltimore, Maryland United States |
| Motto | Auspice Maria (Under the protection of Mary). |
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Ambrose Maréchal, S.S. (August 28, 1764 – January 29, 1828) was a French-born Sulpician and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the third Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland, in the United States. He dedicated the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the oldest cathedral in the United States, in Baltimore in 1821.
Maréchal was born at Ingré in the former Province of Orléanais in the Kingdom of France on August 28, 1764 of fairly prosperous parents. He studied for the legal profession, but later entered the Sulpician seminary at Orléans, where he received the tonsure towards the close of 1787.
France was in such a chaotic condition that he left Paris for Bordeaux, where he was ordained in 1792. On the day of his ordination, and at the risk of his life, accompanied by the Abbés Richard, Martignon and Cicquard he sailed for America and arrived at Baltimore on June 24, 1792 where he offered his first Mass.
Maréchal was sent on the mission in St. Mary's County, and later to Bohemia on the eastern shore of Maryland. In 1799 he was teaching theology at the Sulpician's St. Mary's Seminary, in Baltimore, and in 1801 he was on the staff of Georgetown College.
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