Port Tobacco, Province of Maryland, British America
Died
June 18, 1817(1817-06-18) (aged 70) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Buried
Georgetown Visitation Monastery
Denomination
Catholic Church
Previous post(s)
Coadjutor Bishop of Baltimore (1795–1815)
Titular Bishop of Gortyna (1795–1815)
Vicar General of Baltimore (1793–1799)
Alma mater
Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège
Leonard NealeSJ (October 15, 1746 – June 18, 1817) was an American Catholic prelate and Jesuit who became the second Archbishop of Baltimore and the first Catholic bishop to be ordained in the United States. While president of Georgetown College, Neale became the coadjutor bishop to Bishop John Carroll and founded the Georgetown Visitation Monastery and Academy.
Neale was born in the British Province of Maryland to a prominent family that produced many Catholic leaders, including his brothers, Francis and Charles. He was educated in Europe, where he entered the Society of Jesus in 1767. Neale then volunteered to become a missionary in a Dutch colony in South America in 1779. He spent four years there, before becoming discouraged by the resistance from both the European colonists and indigenous people to his proselytism. He returned to Maryland, where he rejoined his former Jesuit colleagues from Europe at St. Thomas Manor.
In 1793, Neale was appointed pastor of Old St. Joseph's and Old St. Mary's Churches in Philadelphia. Bishop Carroll also made him vicar general for Philadelphia and the northern states. During the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Neale established the first Catholic orphanage there to care for the many orphaned children.
Neale served as president of Georgetown College in Washington from 1799 to 1806, where his imposition of strict discipline helped cause declining student enrollment. Though he was appointed coadjutor bishop in 1795, Neale was notconsecrated until 1800. Neale supported the restoration of the Jesuits in the United States, which occurred in 1805. Neale became the Archbishop of Baltimore in 1815. He faced several conflicts with lay trustees, one resulting in a temporary schism at a parish in Charleston, South Carolina.
LeonardNeale SJ (October 15, 1746 – June 18, 1817) was an American Catholic prelate and Jesuit who became the second Archbishop of Baltimore and the...
the sick, and mixed marriages. The Vatican in 1795 appointed Reverend LeonardNeale as coadjutor bishop in Baltimore to assist Carroll. In 1798, Carroll...
Sulpician. Three presidents have gone on to become bishops: DuBourg, LeonardNeale, and Benedict Joseph Fenwick. Every president has been a Catholic priest...
School Woodstock College Ordinaries Archbishops John Carroll, S.J. LeonardNeale, S.J. Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. James Whitfield Samuel Eccleston, P.S...
Philadelphia and began their community life under the direction of LeonardNeale, who had succeeded Lawrence Graessel and Francis Fleming, victims of...
Seeing these developments, Bishop Carroll instructed his coadjutor, LeonardNeale, (both former Jesuits) to write Gabriel Gruber, the Jesuit Superior...
Francis Ignatius Neale SJ (June 3, 1756 – December 20, 1837), also known as Francis Xavier Neale, was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who led several...
March 12, 1808, Fenwick was ordained a priest at Georgetown College by LeonardNeale, the coadjutor bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In November 1808...
Neale Jane Neale Many of Neale's descendants became Jesuit priests, including Bennett Neale, Archbishop LeonardNeale, Francis Neale, Charles Neale, and William...
immigrant to the United States, and a nun, co-foundress, with the Most Rev. LeonardNeale, S.J., the second Archbishop of Baltimore, of the Visitation Order's...
1798, leading to his resignation. He was succeeded by Francis Neale's brother, LeonardNeale, at Christmas. Upon leaving Georgetown, DuBourg traveled to...
He was ordained a priest on March 12, 1808, in Georgetown, by Bishop LeonardNeale. Following his ordination, he was made the assistant to the Archbishop...
while in May 1900 it was the Catholic priest LeonardNeale that was summoned to Mount Vernon. The Neale specific-story says that the night before his...
1799, three sisters in the order were given permission by Archbishop LeonardNeale to start a girls' school located next to Georgetown University, in Washington...
Games of America's Band Championship Series National Champions. Br. G. Leonard FSC, 1924-1927 Br. Felician John FSC, 1927-1930 Br. Eliseus Vincent Hurley...
School Woodstock College Ordinaries Archbishops John Carroll, S.J. LeonardNeale, S.J. Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. James Whitfield Samuel Eccleston, P.S...
School Woodstock College Ordinaries Archbishops John Carroll, S.J. LeonardNeale, S.J. Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. James Whitfield Samuel Eccleston, P.S...
Georgetown's "second founder". He returned to Rome in 1817 as Archbishop LeonardNeale's representative before the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. He later...
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