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Benedict Joseph Fenwick

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 1, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 20:52, 7 August 2022 (UTC)



Benedict Joseph Fenwick (1782–1846) was an American Catholic bishop and educator who was the Bishop of Boston from 1825 to 1846. Born in Maryland, he entered the Society of Jesus and began his ministry in the Diocese of New York, where he eventually became the vicar general and administrator. In 1817, he became the president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., before soon being sent to South Carolina by Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal of Baltimore to resolve a longstanding schism at St. Mary's Church in Charleston. In 1825, Fenwick became the Bishop of Boston, during a period of both rapid growth of the city's Catholic population due to Irish immigration and intense nativism and anti-Catholicism, culminating with the burning of the Ursuline Convent in 1834, threats against Fenwick's life, and the formation of the Montgomery Guards. He established numerous churches; charitable institutions; newspapers, including The Pilot; and schools, including the College of the Holy Cross in 1843.
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 * Promoted: December 22, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: I would nominate for September 3, as that would be his 240th birthday, but there is already a nomination for that date. Thus, I nominate it for a floating date.
 * Support as nominator.  Ergo Sum  00:25, 1 August 2022 (UTC)