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Augustus Tolton
Augustus Tolton, baptized Augustine Tolton, was the first Catholic priest in the United States to be openly black when ordained in 1886. A former baptized slave and Catholic, Tolton formally studied in Rome. He was ordained there on Easter Sunday 1886 at St. John Lateran basilica. Assigned to the Diocese of Alton, Tolton served for the first time in his home parish in Quincy, Illinois. Later assigned to Chicago, Tolton directed the development and construction of St. Monica Catholic Church as a black "national parish church", completed in 1893 on Route 36 and Dearborn south of Chicago. . He was declared venerable by Pope Francis in June 2019

About Augustus Tolton

Religious Leader Augustus Tolton was born in Missouri, United States on April 1, 1854. He dies at the age of 43, on July 9, 1897.

Ex-slave who became the Roman Catholic Church of America's first African American priest. On Chicago's South Side, he founded St. Monica's Catholic Church.

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Augustus Tolton before becoming famous

Augustus Tolton was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1854 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger (兎).

During the American Civil War, he, his mother, and siblings fled Missouri for Illinois, a slave-free state, where they found work at a tobacco company.

Achievement of Augustus Tolton

At the age of thirty-one, he completed his studies at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy, and was ordained as a priest.

Augustus Tolton's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born into slavery in Missouri, the son of Peter Paul Tolton and Martha Jane Chisley. Savilla Elliot, the plantation owner's wife, was his godmother.

Augustus Tolton Collabed with

He was a well-known ex-slave, as was Autobiographer Frederick Douglass.

Augustus Tolton Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Augustus Tolton updated on March 15 2023.