Background
Northrop, Harry Pinckney was born on May 5, 1842 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of C. B. and Hannah E. (Anderson) Northrop.
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Harry Pinckney Northrop
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Student Georgetown College. Studied 4 yrs.
Career
Ordained R.C. priest, 1865. Assistant Church of the Nativity, New York, 1865-1866. Assistant pastor St. Joseph’s Church, Charleston, South Carolina., 1866-1868.
Missionary priest in North Carolina, at New Berne, 1868-1872. Assistant pastor pro-cathedral, 1872-1878. Pastor Sullivan’s Island.
Pastor St. Patrick’s, Charleston, 4 years. Consecrated bishop, January 8, 1882, as vicar-apostolic of North Carolina and titular bishop of Rosalia. Transferred by papal brief to See of Charleston, South Carolina., January 27, 1883.
