the first catholic bishop of the united states?
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John Carroll. On November 6, 1789, the election of the Rt. Rev. John Carroll was confirmed by Pope Pius VI. Carroll became the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
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August 1st is the feast day of St. Alphonsus Liguori.\nAlphonsus Liguori, Saint (ălfŏn'səs lĭgwô'rē) , 1696–1787, Italian churchman, Doctor of the Church. He was named Alfonso Maria de' Liguori. In 1732 he founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists) for religious work among the poor, especially in the country. He refused the archiepiscopal see of Palermo, accepting instead (1762) the poor country diocese of Sant'Agata dei Goti. He labored incessantly until 1775, when sickness forced him to resign. He worked for his order under great difficulties caused by an anticlerical government and overzealous monks. Goatherds of the mountains were his special care. St. Alphonsus was an accomplished musician and wrote many hymns and instrumental pieces. His point of view in casuistry, which has become standard, is called equiprobabilism. St. Alphonsus was unusual, even among Roman Catholics, for his great devotion to the Virgin.
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Born and raised Catholic. That was hilarious!
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I attend church on a weekly basis and am very satisfied with our bishop.  He is an awesome guy!
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The First President of the United States of America was George Washington.
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Catholics are merley one of the many christian denominations.  actually the first one. And with the Orthodox church the only ones for 1500 years.
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I assume you are asking if he was the first President of the United States. This is a common misconception. He was the President of the United States in Congress, a title given to the head of the legislature under the Articles of Confederation, a brief experiment between the Revolution and the Constitution, which had no executive branch, and thus no president, at least as we conceive him. He was instead something like a prime minister, though even that is a stretch. He had very little real power in his position. Besides, if you're really going to say that his position is equivalent, then the first president would have to be Peyton Randolph, who served as the President of the First Continental Congress.
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He was the first black American to serve on US Supreme Court.
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John F. Kennedy has been the only Catholic President of the United States.  You must be careful however when you ask this question.  In your question you used a lower case 'c' when you wrote catholic, in this case it simply means universal and does not refer to the Roman Catholic Church with a capital 'C'.
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+ Enormous Hierarchy +\n\nThere are 1.1 billion Catholics in the world and the number is growing. Do you think the apostles ever thought there would be more that a million people for every bishop (successors of the Apostles)?\n\n+ The Pope +\n\nJesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:17-19)\n\nThe Catholic Church believes the Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.\n\nThe current Pope is the successor of Peter in an unbroken line from the direct words of Jesus Christ.\n\n+ Celibacy +\n\nFirst, Judeo-Christian tradition has always held that single people be celibate. This is taught by Judaism and Christianity from before the Scriptures were written down.\n\nThe question should be: Why can't priests marry?\n\nThis idea came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul.\n\nThe Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). This argument could certainly have been based on the biblical example of Jeremiah, a celibate prophet who was ordered by Yahweh not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nJohn the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that either or both Jesus and John the Baptist were influenced in their celibacy by the example of the Essenes.  \n\nThe Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).  \n\nThe concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Saint Nicholas and the Origin of Santa Claus print version \n\n\n\nBishop St. Nicholas, early American St. Nick, & American Santa, from Santa Claus Comes to America, by Caroline Singer & Cyrus Baldridge, Alfred Knopf, 1942  \n\nHow did the kindly Christian saint, good Bishop Nicholas, become a roly-poly red-suited American symbol for merry holiday festivity and commercial activity?\n\nThe first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. Nicholas. Vikings dedicated their cathedral to him in Greenland. On his first voyage, Columbus named a Haitian port for St. Nicholas on December 6, 1492. In Florida, Spaniards named an early settlement St. Nicholas Ferry, now known as Jacksonville. However, St. Nicholas had a difficult time during the 16th century Protestant Reformation which took a dim view of saints. Even though both reformers and counter-reformers tried to stamp out St. Nicholas-related customs, they had very little long-term success; only in England were the religious folk traditions of Christmas permanently altered. (It is ironic that fervent Puritan Christians began what turned into a trend to a more secular Christmas observance.) Because the common people so loved St. Nicholas, he survived on the European continent as people continued to place nuts, apples, and sweets in shoes left beside beds, on windowsills, or before the hearth.\n\n\n"New Year's Hymn to St. Nicholas," colonial Dutch life, Albany, NY. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1881\nSt. Nicholas Center Collection  \nColonists came to America after the Reformation in the 1500s. They were primarily Puritans and other Protestant reformers who did not bring Nicholas traditions to the New World. What about the Dutch? Although it is nearly universally reported that the Dutch did bring St. Nicholas to New Amsterdam, scholars find limited evidence of such traditions in Dutch New Netherland. Colonial Germans in Pennsylvania held the feast of St. Nicholas, and several accounts do have St. Nicholas visiting New York Dutch on New Years' Eve. Patriots formed the Sons of St. Nicholas in 1773, not to honor Bishop Nicholas, but rather as a non-British symbol to counter the English St. George societies. This St. Nicholas society was similar to the Sons of St. Tammany in Philadelphia. Not exactly St. Nicholas, the children's gift-giver.\n\n\nDetail from First Celebration of the Festival of St. Nicholas by The New-York Historical Society, Broadside by Alexander Anderson, December 6, 1810, commissioned by John Pintard, SY 1864-21, negative number 28883 Used by permission \nAfter the American Revolution, New Yorkers remembered with pride the colony's nearly-forgotten Dutch roots. John Pintard, influential patriot and antiquarian, who founded the New York Historical Society in 1804, promoted St. Nicholas as patron saint of both society and city. In January 1809, Washington Irving joined the society and on St. Nicholas Day that year he published the satirical fiction, Knickerbocker's History of New York, which made numerous references to a jolly St. Nicholas character. This was not a saintly bishop, rather an elfin Dutch burgher with a clay pipe. These delightful flights of imagination are the origin of the New Amsterdam St. Nicholas legends: that the first Dutch emigrant ship had a figurehead of St. Nicholas; that St. Nicholas Day was observed in the colony; that the first church was dedicated to him: and that St. Nicholas comes down chimneys to bring gifts. Irving's work was regarded as the "first notable work of imagination in the New World."\n\nThe New York Historical Society held its first St. Nicholas anniversary dinner on December 6, 1810. John Pintard commissioned artist Alexander Anderson to create the first American image of Nicholas for the occasion. Nicholas was shown in a gift-giving role with children's treats in stockings hanging at a fireplace. The accompanying poem ends, "Saint Nicholas, my dear good f
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The first President of the U.S. was George Washington.
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Ronald Reagan\n\nhttp://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/presidents/firsts.htm
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There have never been any Roman Catholic vice-presidents of the United States.\n\nThere was only one Catholic president, and that was John F. Kennedy.
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If you are looking for the first breakaway from the Catholic religion, it wasn't the Protestants that hold that distinction, but Islam, then the Eastern Orthodox. The East-West Schism, known also as the Great Schism (though this latter term sometimes refers to the later Western Schism), was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Though normally dated to 1054, the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between the two Churches. The primary causes of the Schism were disputes over papal authority—the Pope claimed he held authority over the four Eastern patriarchs, while Eastern Orthodox today claim that the primacy of the Patriarch of Rome was only honorary, and thus he had authority only over Western Christians—and over the insertion of the filioque clause into the Nicene Creed. There were other, less significant catalysts for the Schism, including variance over liturgical practices and conflicting claims of jurisdiction.\n\nBut for the origins of other Christian denominations and their roots...\n\nReligion:         ANGLICAN\nYear instituted:  1534 A.D. \nInstituted by:    King Henry VIII (Because he was refused a divorce)\nLocation:         England\n\nReligion:         ASSEMBLY OF GOD\nYear instituted:  1914 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Developed from a revival movement in the early 1900's\nLocation:         Hot Springs, Arkansas\n\nReligion:         BAPTIST\nYear instituted:  1607 A.D.\nInstituted by:    John Smyth\nLocation:         Amsterdam\n\nReligion:         CALVINIST\nYear instituted:  1533 A.D.\nInstituted by:    John Calvin (former Protestant)\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         CHRISTIAN REFORMED\nYear instituted:  1857 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Separated from Dutch Reformed Church\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         CHRISTIAN SCIENCE\nYear instituted:  1879 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Mary Baker Eddy\nLocation:         Boston, Massachusetts\n\nReligion:         CHURCH OF NAZARENE\nYear instituted:  1919\nInstituted by:    Union of General Assembly\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         CONGREGATIONALIST\nYear instituted:  1582 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Robert Brown\nLocation:         Holland\n\nReligion:         DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH\nYear instituted:  1628 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Michelis Jones\nLocation:         New York, United States\n\nReligion:         EASTERN ORTHODOX\nYear instituted:  1054 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem\nLocation:         -----\n\nReligion:         EPISCOPALIAN\nYear instituted:  1789 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Samuel Seabury\nLocation:         United States\n\nReligion:         EVANGELICAL\nYear instituted:  1803\nInstituted by:    Jacob Albright\nLocation:         Pennsylvania, United States\n\nReligion:         EVANGELICAL REFORMED\nYear instituted:  1934\nInstituted by:    Union at General Assembly\nLocation:         Cleveland, Ohio\n\nReligion:         FREE METHODIST\nYear instituted:  1860 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Separated from the Methodist Church\nLocation:         Niagara Country, N.Y., United States\n\nReligion:         ISLAM\nYear instituted:  600 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Mohammed\nLocation:         Saudi Arabia\n\nReligion:         JEHOVAH'S WITNESS\nYear instituted:  1872 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Charles Taze Russell\nLocation:         Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States\n\nReligion:         LUTHERAN\nYear instituted:  1517 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Martin Luther (ex-monk)\nLocation:         Germany\n\nReligion:         MENNONITE\nYear instituted:  1525 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Grebel, Mantz and Blaurock\nLocation:         Switzerland\n\nReligion:         METHODIST\nYear instituted:  1744 A.D.\nInstituted by:    John & Charles Wesley\nLocation:         England\n\nReligion:         MORMON (LATTER-DAY SAINTS)\nYear instituted:  1830 A.D.\nInstituted by:    Joseph Smith\nLocation:         Palmyra, N.Y.,
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The leader of a congregation is called a priest.  Deacons aide a priest in his/her duties.  A bishop overlooks a diocese, which is kind of like a church district.
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You can consider the First Christian Church.