John Neumann
John Nepomucene Neumann (March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860) was a Bohemian-born American Catholic prelate who served as the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia from 1852 to 1860.
An immigrant from Bohemia, he came to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained, joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, and became the bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. In Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the United States. Canonized in 1977, he is the only male American citizen to be named a saint.
Patron saint of Catholic education
In the Martyrology
- January 5 Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Redemptorist, bishop of Philadelphia