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Healy, James Augustine (1830–1900)| US Catholic prelate. The nation's first African-American Catholic bishop – though not widely known as such – he was an effective orator, builder of churches, and benefactor of the needy The son of a black slave woman and white plantation owner, Healy was born in Jones County, Georgia. He graduated from Holy Cross College in 1849 and was ordained in Paris, france, in 1854. After serving as a pastor and administrator in the Boston, Massachusetts, archdiocese, he was named bishop of Portland, Maine in 1875. |
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