Augustus Tolton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Augustus Tolton

American priest

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1854

Place of Birth: Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jul-1897

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Augustus Tolton

  • Augustus Tolton (April 1, 1854 – July 9, 1897), baptized Augustine Tolton, was the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States publicly known to be black when he was ordained in 1886.
  • (James Augustine Healy, ordained in 1854, and Patrick Francis Healy, ordained in 1864, were of mixed-race.) A former slave who was baptized and reared Catholic, Tolton studied formally in Rome. He was ordained in Rome on Easter Sunday of 1886 at the Archbasilica of St.
  • John Lateran.
  • Assigned to the diocese of Alton (now the Diocese of Springfield), Tolton first ministered to his home parish in Quincy, Illinois.
  • Later assigned to Chicago, Tolton led the development and construction of St.
  • Monica's Catholic Church as a black "national parish church", completed in 1893 at 36th and Dearborn Streets on Chicago's South Side.

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