Chronology
- August 19, 1768 - Born in Maryland Colony
- December 24, 1784 - Entered Holy Cross College, Bornheim, Belgium
- September 4, 1788 - Entered the Order of the Dominicans
- March 26, 1790 - Professed a Friar Preacher at Bornheim
- March 24, 1792 - Ordained Subdeacon at Ghent, France
- June 2, 1792 - Ordained a Deacon
- February 23, 1793 - Ordination as priest (date probable)
- Spring, 1794 - Put in charge of convent at Borheim
- 1795 - Joined college at Carshalton, Surrey, England (date approximate)
- November 11, 1800 - Entered Woburn Lodge for theological studies
- June 21, 1802 - Made procurator of the convent at Surrey, England
- September, 1804 - Sailed from London to return to America
- Spring, 1805 - Visited Kentucky to investigate founding a college or school
- June 22, 1805 - Appointed Superior of the Province of United States (Dominican)
- July, 1806 - Returned to Kentucky, purchased acreage near Springfield, Kentucky to construct convent, college and church known as St. Rose.
- October, 1807 - Petitioned for and was released from superiorship of the newly created Dominican Province of the United States (began mission work).
- 1807 to 1821 - Devoted time to missionary work, traveling throughout Kentucky and Ohio ministering to the Catholics.
- December 6, 1818 - Blessed first church in Ohio, at Somerset, Ohio (dedicated to St. Joseph).
- April 12, 1819 - Mass celebrated at Christ Church, Cincinnati for the first time (Christ Church was the first church in Cincinnati).
- June 19, 1821 - Appointed by Rome to the see of Cincinnati.
- January 13, 1822 - Consecrated Bishop at St. Rose Church, Springfield, Kentucky, by Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, became first Bishop of Cincinnati and Ohio.
- March 23, 1822 - Bishop Fenwick arrives in Cincinnati on horseback.
- December 5, 1822 - Christ Church, having been moved and reconstructed, is opened and services held. The church is now known as St. Peter.
- May 30, 1823 - Bishop Fenwick leaves for Rome, his trip expenses paid for by laymen in Cincinnati.
- August 6, 1823 - Arrives at Bordeaux, France.
- September 26, 1823 - Arrives at Rome, two days before election of Pope Leo XII.
- October 6, 1823 - Is received in audience of Leo XII. Receives financial assistance, ecclesiastical articles, and 12 paintings.
- March 29, 1824 - Returns to Cincinnati.
- December 17, 1826 - Cathedral dedicated in honor of St. Peter.
- May 11, 1829 - Fenwick opens St. Francis Xavier Seminary.
- May 14, 1830 - Cornerstone laid for church dedicated to St. Francis Xavier.
- October, 1831 - Establishes The Athenaeum.
- October, 1831 - Establishes The Catholic Telegraph, oldest diocesan newspaper in America.
- September, 1832 - Died at Wooster, Ohio
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