BY WALTER OPINDE On this date, 2nd June, 1875, James Healy Augustine was consecrated as an American Roman Catholic priest, and the second bishop of Portland, Maine. He thereby became the first known Bishop in the U.S. to be from the African descent. Born on 6th April, 1830, in Georgia, to a mixed-race slave mother and Irish immigrant father, Healy identified […]
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