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James Cardinal Gibbons ( 23 July , 1834 - 24 March , 1921 ) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Baltimore from 1877 until his death, and in 1886 became the second man from the United States to be made a Cardinal . Born in Baltimore, Maryland , he was Ordained a Priest there in 1861 , and in 1868 Pope Pius IX nominated him Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina , which did not yet have a Catholic diocese within its borders. He was consecrated Titular Bishop of Adramyttium at the age of 33. Gibbons was the youngest bishop at the First Vatican Council , and he gave the '' Imprimatur '' for the Challoner edition of the Douay-Rheims Bible . In 1872 he became the Bishop of Richmond, Virginia and served there until May 1877, when he was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Baltimore. He succeeded as Archbishop that October on the death of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley . In his later years he was seen as the public face of Roman Catholicism In The United States , and on his death was widely mourned. Now, he is famous for his support of the Labor Movement in the United States , and for the numerous schools named after him. EXTERNAL LINKS Schools named after him
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