Archdiocese of Baltimore
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE (Archidioecesis Baltimorensis)
Country : United States
Denomination : Roman Catholic
Established : 1789 as Diocese of Baltimore
Eleveated to Archdiocese in 1808
Name changed : 1939-1947 Archdiocese of Baltimore and Washington
Official blazon
Quarterly azure and argent, a cross botonny thoughout of the second and gules, in dexter chief a star of the second.
Origin/meaning
The arms of the See of Baltimore were for a long tome not established, and only a representation of Our Lady argent in blue had long done duty as a quasi-diocesan coat. In the new arms, the part of the azure field was retained, a color closely associated, ecclesiastically, with Our Lady. The quartered red and silver cross, in the second and third (Crossland) quarters of Lord Baltimore's arms indicates the name of the See. (Crossland arms Quarterly argent and gules a cross botonny counterchanged ).
In addition to the cross of our Faith in this peculiarly Baltimorean form, the star is suggesting one of the titles and attributes of Our Lady, Patroness of the Archdiocese; it is also the accepted symbol of an American state.
Arms of bishops
John Carroll (1784-1808)
Arms of Archbishops
John Carroll (1808-1815)
Leonard Neale (1815-1817)
Ambrose Maréchal (1817-1828)
James Whitfield (1828-1834)
Samuel Eccleston (1834-1851)
Francis Patrick Kenrick (1851-1863)
Martin John Spalding (1864-1872)
James Roosevelt Bayley (1872-1877)
James Gibbons (1877-1921)
Michael Joseph Curley (1921-1947)
Francis Patrick Keough (1947-1961)
Lawrence Joseph Shehan (1961-1974)
William Donald Borders (1974-1989)
William Henry Keeler (1989-2007)
Edwin Frederick O'Brien (2007-2011)
William Edward Lori (2012-present)
Arms of auxiliary bishops
Alfred Allen Paul Curtis (1897-1908)
Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan (1908-1929)
Thomas Joseph Shahan (1914-1932)
John Michael McNamara (1927-1947)
Lawrence Joseph Shehan (1945-1953)
Jerome Aloysius Daugherty Sebastian (1953-1960)
Thomas Austin Murphy (1962-1984)
Thomas Joseph Mardaga (1966-1968)
Francis Joseph Gossman (1968-1975)
Philip Francis Murphy (1976-1999)
Did not use arms
James Francis Stafford (1976-1982)
William Clifford Newman (1984-2003)
Did not use arms
John Huston Ricard (1984-1997)
Gordon Dunlap Bennett (1997-2004)
William Francis Malooly (2000-2008)
Mitchell Thomas Rozanski (2004-2014)
Denis James Madden (2005-2016)
Adam John Parker (2017-present)
Mark Edward Brennan (2017-present)
Bruce Alan Lewandowski (2020-present)
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