John Neumann
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Saint John Nepomucene Neumann |
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| Bishop of Philadelphia | |
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| Native name | Johann Nepomuk Neumann |
| See | Philadelphia |
| Installed | March 28, 1852 |
| Term ended | January 5, 1860 |
| Predecessor | Francis Kenrick |
| Successor | James Frederick Bryan Wood |
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| Ordination | June 25, 1836 by John Dubois, S.S. |
| Consecration | March 28, 1852 by Francis Patrick Kenrick |
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| Born |
March 28, 1811 Prachatitz, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire |
| Died | January 5, 1860 (aged 48) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Buried | National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Alma mater | Charles University in Prague |
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| Sainthood | |
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| Venerated in |
Roman Catholic Church (United States and the Czech Republic) |
| Title as Saint | Missionary, religious and Bishop |
| Beatified | October 13, 1963 Vatican City, by Pope Paul VI |
| Canonized | June 19, 1977 Vatican City, by Pope Paul VI |
| Attributes | Redemptorist habit with a pectoral cross |
| Patronage | Catholic Education |
| Shrines | National Shrine of Saint John Neumann, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Ordination history of John Neumann | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Ordained by | John Dubois, S.S. |
| Date of ordination | June 25, 1836 |
| Place of ordination | Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York, United States |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Francis Kenrick |
| Date of consecration | March 28, 1852 |
John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R. (Czech: Jan Nepomucký Neumann, German: Johann Nepomuk Neumann; March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860), was a Catholic priest from Bohemia. He immigrated to the United States in 1836, where he joined the Redemptorist order and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia (1852–60). He is the first United States bishop (and to date the only male citizen) to be canonized. While Bishop of Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the United States. He is a Roman Catholic saint, canonized in 1977.
John was born on March 28, 1811, in Prachatice, in the Kingdom of Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire, now in the Czech Republic) to Johann Philipp Neumann, a stocking knitter from Obernburg am Main, and Agnes Lebisch from Prachatice. He attended a school in České Budějovice which was operated by the Piarist Fathers before entering the seminary there in 1831. Two years later he transferred to the Charles University in Prague, where he studied theology, though he was also interested in astronomy and botany. By the time he was twenty-four, he had learned six languages. His goal was to be ordained to the priesthood, and he applied for this after completing his studies in 1835. His bishop, however, had decided that there would be no more ordinations at that time, as Bohemia had numerous priests and difficulty finding positions for them all. In 1836 Neumann traveled to the United States in the hope of being ordained.
Neumann arrived in New York with one suit of clothes and one dollar in his pocket. Three weeks later, Bishop John Dubois, Society of Saint-Sulpice, ordained him in June 1836 at what is now the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
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