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An Immigrant Bishop - John England's Adaptation of Irish Catholicism to American Republicanism, Second Edition (Paperback)
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An Immigrant Bishop - John England's Adaptation of Irish Catholicism to American Republicanism, Second Edition (Paperback)
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An Immigrant Bishop is a revised examination of the Irish
intellectual roots of Bishop John England's American pastoral works
in the diocese of Charleston, South Carolina (1820-1842). The text
focuses on his political philosophy and his theology of the Church,
both of which were influenced by the Enlightenment and a
theological, not a political, Gallicanism. As the study
demonstrates, we now know more about England's intellectual life
prior to his immigration than we do about any other Catholic
immigrant from Ireland. Neither Peter Guilday's monumental
two-volume biography (1927) of England nor any subsequent scholarly
study of England has uncovered and analyzed, as this book does,
England's many unpublished and published writings in Ireland-his
explicitly authored texts, his published speeches before the Cork
Aggregate meetings, and his pseudonymous articles in the Cork
Mercantile Chronicle between 1808, when he was ordained, and 1820,
when he emigrated to the United States. John England (1786-1842),
the first Catholic bishop of Charleston, was the foremost national
spokesman for Catholicism in the United States during the years of
his episcopacy and the primary apologist for the compatibility of
Catholicism and American republicanism. He was also the first
Catholic bishop to speak before the United States Congress and the
first American to receive a papal appointment as an Apostolic
Delegate to a foreign country (in this case to negotiate a
concordat with President Jean Pierre Boyer of Haiti). He is
considered the father of the Baltimore Provincial Councils and the
nineteenth-century American Catholic conciliar tradition. He was
also the only bishop in American history to develop a
constitutional form of diocesan government and administration.
Among other things he was the first cleric to establish a diocesan
newspaper that had something of a national distribution. England's
contribution to the early formation of an American Catholicism has
been told many times before, but he has the kind of creative mind
and episcopal leadership that demands repeated re-considerations.
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