
Christian History Home > This Week in Christian History > January 23

January 23
posted 1/23/1980 12:00AM
January 23, 1786: John Carroll, who would become America's first Roman Catholic bishop, founds the Catholic academy that is now Georgetown University.
January 23, 1893: Episcopal minister Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts, staunch abolitionist, substitute evangelist for D.L. Moody, and author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," dies. He was considered the most "considerable American preacher of his generation."
Browse More ChristianHistory.net Home | Browse by Topic | Browse by Period | The Past in the Present | Books & Resources
|  |
 |