<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" id="mwaQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown College</a>, the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_university" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catholic university">Catholic university</a> in the United States, is founded in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_(Washington,_D.C.)" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)">Georgetown, Maryland</a> (now a part of Washington, D.C.) when Bishop <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_(archbishop_of_Baltimore)" id="mwbA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)">John Carroll</a>, Rev. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Molyneux" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Molyneux">Robert Molyneux</a>, and Rev. John Ashton purchase land for the proposed academy for the education of youth.<sup about="#mwt61" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_23#cite_note-10" id="mwbg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwbw">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt58" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFConn1991">Conn, James Jerome (1991). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nCKk0nNBqPgC" id="mwBws" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBww">Catholic Universities in the United States and Ecclesiastical Authority</i></a>. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana. p.<span id="mwBw0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>134. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBw4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBw8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9788876526398" id="mwBxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9788876526398"><bdi id="mwBxE">9788876526398</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt58" class="Z3988" id="mwBxI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Catholic+Universities+in+the+United+States+and+Ecclesiastical+Authority&amp;rft.place=Rome&amp;rft.pages=134&amp;rft.pub=Editrice+Pontificia+Universit%C3%A0+Gregoriana&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=9788876526398&amp;rft.aulast=Conn&amp;rft.aufirst=James+Jerome&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnCKk0nNBqPgC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+23"></span></span>