Samuel Eccleston
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The Most Reverend Samuel Eccleston P.S.S. |
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| Fifth Archbishop of Baltimore | |
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| See | Archdiocese of Baltimore |
| Appointed | March 11, 1834 (Coadjutor) |
| Installed | October 19, 1834 |
| Term ended | April 22, 1851 |
| Predecessor | James Whitfield |
| Successor | Francis Kenrick |
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| Ordination | April 24, 1825 by Ambrose Maréchal |
| Consecration | September 14, 1834 by James Whitfield |
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June 27, 1801 Chestertown, Maryland |
| Died | May 22, 1851 (aged 49) Georgetown, Washington, D.C. |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Parents | Samuel Eccleston and Martha Hyson |
| Previous post | Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Richmond (1835-1840) |
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Samuel Eccleston, S.S. (June 27, 1801 – April 22, 1851) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the fifth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland from 1834 until his death in 1851.
Samuel Eccleston was born near Chestertown, Maryland, to Samuel and Martha (née Hyson) Eccleston and raised Episcopalian. His grandfather, John Eccleston, was from Preston in North West England, and came to the Colony of Maryland in the middle of the 18th century. His father, who had three children from a previous marriage, died when Samuel was a young boy. Following his father's death, his widowed mother remarried a Catholic gentleman named Stenson. Young Eccleston was sent to St. Mary's College in Baltimore, run by the Sulpician Fathers, to be educated, and converted to Catholicism on May 29, 1819.
Following his conversion, Eccleston decided to enter the priesthood, and enrolled at St. Mary's Seminary in July 1819. He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal on April 24, 1825. Later that year, he entered the Sulpicians, and continued his studies at the Grand Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. After visiting England and Ireland, Eccleston returned to Baltimore in July 1827. He became a faculty member and Vice-President at his alma mater, St. Mary's Seminary, and the institution's President in 1829.
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