Martin John Spalding
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The Most Reverend Martin John Spalding |
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| Archbishop of Baltimore | |
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| See | Baltimore |
| Appointed | May 6, 1864 |
| Installed | July 31, 1864 |
| Term ended | February 7, 1872 |
| Predecessor | Francis Patrick Kenrick |
| Successor | James Roosevelt Bayley |
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| Ordination | August 13, 1834 by Carlo Maria Pedicini |
| Consecration | September 10, 1848 by Benedict Joseph Flaget P.S.S. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 23, 1810 Rolling Fork, Kentucky |
| Died | February 7, 1872 (aged 61) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Previous post |
Coadjutor Bishop of Louisville (1848-1850) Bishop of Louisville (1850-1864) |
Martin John Spalding (May 23, 1810 – February 7, 1872) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Louisville (1850-1864) and Archbishop of Baltimore (1864-1872). He advocated aid for freed slaves following the American Civil War. Spalding attended the First Vatican Council, where he first opposed, and then supported, a dogmatic proclamation of papal infallibility.
Martin Spalding was born in Rolling Fork, Kentucky, the sixth of eight children of Richard and Henrietta (née Hamilton) Spalding. His ancestors were originally from England (although one great-grandmother was Irish), and settled in Maryland around the middle of the 17th century. His paternal grandfather, Benedict Spalding, moved to Kentucky from St. Mary's County in 1790. His mother's family, likewise from Maryland, moved to Kentucky a year later. His parents married in 1801.
When Martin was only five or six years of age, his mother died and he was confided to the care of his oldest sister and paternal grandmother. His father subsequently remarried twice, and had a total of twenty-one children. He was sent to a country school run by a Mr. Merryweather at age eight, and received his First Communion two years later. In 1821, he entered the newly established St. Mary's College in Lebanon. At St. Mary's, he became a favorite pupil of Rev. William Byrne, and was even made professor of mathematics at age fourteen. Spalding graduated from St. Mary's in 1826 and, having resolved to join the priesthood, entered St. Thomas Seminary in Bardstown in September of that same year. He remained in Bardstown for four years, dividing his time between studying philosophy and theology and teaching at the adjoining St. Joseph's College.
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