The pioneering path of Augustus Tolton, the first Black Catholic priest in the US – born into slavery, he’s now a candidate for sainthood
Attendees at the 1892 Colored Catholic Congress included the nation's first openly Black priest, Augustus Tolton, who stands in the middle of the front row. (Wikimedia Commons)
(The Conversation) — Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who presented themselves as white.
