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Bishop Healy Vaulted From Slavery to Servant of God


The Tablet
February 17, 2021
Bishop James Augustine Healy, born 1830, is the first bishop of African-American heritage in the U.S. During his 25 years leading the Diocese of Portland, Maine, he built 60 new churches, 68 missions, 18 convents, and 18 schools. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
WINDSOR TERRACE Anthropologist Tom Riley did not understand why his grandmother, in the mid 1950s, resisted an interview with a priest working on a biography of the family’s famous ancestor, Bishop James Augustine Healy.
Bishop Healy the eldest brother of Riley’s great-grandmother, Martha was born into slavery in Jones County, Georgia. He moved north for education as a young boy and later became a priest. In 1875 he was consecrated as the second bishop for the Diocese of Portland, Maine. ....

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