Leonard Neale
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The Most Reverend Leonard Neale, S.J. |
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| Archbishop of Baltimore | |
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| Archdiocese | Baltimore |
| Appointed | 1800 (coadjutor) |
| Installed | December 3, 1815 |
| Term ended | June 18, 1817 |
| Predecessor | John Carroll |
| Successor | Ambrose Maréchal |
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| Ordination | June 5, 1773 |
| Consecration | December 7, 1800 by John Carroll |
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| Born | October 15, 1746 Port Tobacco, Province of Maryland, British Empire |
| Died | June 18, 1817 (aged 70) Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Parents | William Neale & Anne Brooke |
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Styles of Leonard Neale |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | none |
Leonard Neale, S.J., (October 15, 1746 – June 18, 1817) became the first Roman Catholic bishop to be ordained in the United States. He served as the second Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland. He devoted considerable time to the establishment of the Visitation nuns to provide education to the girls of his diocese, and also served as President of Georgetown College.
Neale was born near Port Tobacco, then in the British Province of Maryland, on October 15, 1746 to William and Anne (Brooke) Neale. Six of their seven sons became Jesuits. Neale attended Bohemia Manor School near his home in Maryland. At the age of twelve he was sent to the College of Saint-Omer, in northern France, and later continued his studies in Bruges and Liège.
Neale became a member of the Society of Jesus, and after his ordination on June 5, 1777, he taught in colleges and officiated as pastor in different places in Europe. He was teaching in the Jesuit college of Bruges, then in the Austrian Netherlands, when that institution was seized by the Austrian imperial government, and along with the other Jesuits was expelled. He moved to England, where he had charge of a small congregation, but after four years he sailed in 1779 for Demerara, in British Guiana. At length his health was almost ruined by the inclemency of the climate and the severity of his labors. He left there in January 1783, and during the voyage, fell into the hands of British Royal Navy warships, which being at sea were unaware that the Treaty of Paris had ended hostilities between Britain and the American colonies. He arrived in Maryland in April, associating himself with his Jesuit colleagues, among them John Carroll.
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