Guide to the Bishop Edward D. Fenwick Records

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Guide to the Bishop Edward D. Fenwick Records

1823-1832

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Only a few documents have survived from Bishop Fenwick. During the administration of Archbishop William H. Elder (1883-1903), it was decided that the newly established archives at Notre Dame University would insure the preservation, organization, and availability of the records. Consequently, most of the records relating to Bishop Fenwick were sent there. Records include correspondence to and from Bishop Fenwick from various people, the faculties granted to Bishop Fenwick upon his installation as bishop, and copies of his last will and testament. The majority of records of Fenwick's tenure as Bishop of Cincinnati are at the University of Notre Dame Archives.

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Fenwick, Edward D. (Edward Dominic), 1768-1832

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Edward Dominic Fenwick was born on August 19, 1768 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. In 1784 he went to study at Holy Cross College in Barnheim, Belgium. He entered the Order of Preachers in 1788 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1793 at Ghent. Fenwick returned to America in 1804 to establish a Dominican province in America, which was founded near Springfield, Kentucky in 1805. From this base, he made several missionary journeys into Ohio. On January 13, 1822 Fenwick was consecrated the fir...