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NORTHROP, Henry Pinckney, fourth Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston, was born in Charleston, S. C., May 5. 1842. In 1853 he entered Georgetown College,” and after studying there the classics for three years he went to Mt. St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., where he was graduated in I860. Entering the seminary there and having finished the course in 1864, he went to Rome to the American College, where he was ordained June 26, 1865. On his return to the United States he was attached for several months to the Church of the Nativity in New York, and in 1866 was made assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Charleston, S. C. In 1868 he went to Newbern, N. C., and for four years was engaged in missionary labors in North Carolina. He was assistant pastor of the pro-cathedral in Charleston and pastor of Sullivan’s island from 1872-78, and was then stationed for one year as pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in the same city. He was consecrated titular bishop of Rosalia and vicar-apostolic of North Carolina, Jar 8, 1882, but upon the death of Bishop Lynch was transferred by a papal brief of Jan. 27, 1883, to the see of Charleston, S. C., retaining the administration of the vicariate of North Carolina. The diocese of Charleston now contains 18 secular priests, 9 churches with resident priests, 15 missions with churches, 81 stations and chapels, several charitable and educational institutions and a Catholic population of about 8,500 souls.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 12 (New York: J.T. White, 1892), 411.
NOTE
Bishop Northrop was Bishop of Charleston from 1883 until his death on June 7, 1916.
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