to the growing number of Catholic immigrants in the industrializing cities. The Sisters of the Visitation increased the number of their academies in the city and archdiocese, the Brothers of St. Patrick came to direct a trade school near Baltimore, and the Redemptorists cared particularly for German-speaking immigrants. The Brothers of the Christian Schools founded Calvert Hall School, (later to become Calvert Hall College, then Calvert Hall College high school) in 1845, at the northwest corner of West Saratoga and North Charles Street, on the site of the old St. Peter's Procathedral, (first Catholic congregation in the City from 1770 to 1841). St. Charles College (a pre-seminary) was established in 1848 in Howard County, Maryland, on land donated by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, near his family estate of "Doughoregan Manor" (later moved to near Catonsille and Arbutus, Maryland in southwest Baltimore County in 1911). With his focus on the arriving immigrants, Bishop Eccleston was less supportive of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a religious community of African American women. Despite the lack of an appointed spiritual director from 1843 to 1847, the sisters maintained their religious practices and community life. Although the institute was approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 2 October 1831, by October 1847 Eccleston was determined to disband the community, but was dissuaded by Redemptorist Father Thaddeus Anwander, who had been directed by his superior, John Neumann to see to the sisters. At Anwander's request, he was appointed to fill the long vacant position of spiritual adviser. Between 1837 and 1849, bishop Eccleston held five Provincial Councils of Baltimore; he even invited the exiled Pope Pius IX, (1792-1878, served 1846-1878), to preside over the Seventh Provincial Council in 1849. Several new churches were erected during his administration as well. Eccleston died in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., aged only 49. He was buried and entombed in the crypt (with predecessors and successors) of the old Baltimore Cathedral on "Cathedral Hill" in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore.- See also Catholic Church hierarchy Catholic Church in the United States Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States List of Catholic bishops of the United States Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops References External links Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore 1801 births 1851 deaths People from Chestertown, Maryland Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism St. Mary's Seminary and University alumni Roman Catholic archbishops of