The colony of Maryland was established a Roman Catholic region. Lord Baltimore asked the king for a Catholic state in the New World.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. Maryland was established as a colony for persecuted Catholics, however, it didn't work out very well, as the protestants in the colony kept up the persecution.
Cecilius Calvert 2nd Baron Baltimore the proprietor of the Maryland Colony was a Roman Catholic.
At 63.6% they have the largest Roman Catholic population in the United States.
1521 when Mexico became a colony of Spain (Spain was already professing the Roman Catholic faith).
Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is rarely used by the Catholic Church. Maryland was the colony founded in America for Catholics.
Maryland was established as a Catholic colony, not Deleware
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She was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school.
There are Roman Catholic churches, basilicas, chapels, cathedrals, etc.
They were Roman Catholic.