Roman Catholic Bishop. His early education in Ireland was directed towards his wish to become a priest. He initially attended St. Patrick's College in Carlow, Ireland. In October of 1808 he was ordained a priest and was assigned duties as the cathedral as well as chaplain to the North Presentation Convent, and the city prison. By 1812 he became president of St. Mary's College continuing in that pursuit until 1817. For the next three years he was assigned to a local parish and in August of 1820 was appointed the first bishop of Charleston, South Carolina. With these duties he presided over South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, parts of Florida as well as the Bahamas, plus missions in Haiti. The diocese comprised over 140,000 square miles making it the largest Catholic diocese in existence. In 1822 England established the first Catholic newspaper in the United States, the "United States Catholic Miscellany". In 1825 he opened the first seminary in the South, St. John the Baptist Seminary. In 1829 he created the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy, with the task of educating poor and needy children. In 1833 he was appointed by the Pope as an apostolic delegate to Haiti with the purpose of helping the island's Catholic's. This type of appointment by the Pope was the first appointment by the Pope of an American prelate to be so honored. The Pope further honored him by giving him the rank of Assistant at the Pontifical Throne. England was also a gifted orator and became the voice among the bishops for convening the Councils of Baltimore in 1829 and was the first Catholic bishop invited to speak before Congress, and he did so on January 8,1826. He also defended the Catholic church from attacks by such notables as John Quincy Adams. At the time of his death his reign as bishop had produced fourteen churches and doubled the population of Catholics in the diocese. He would surely have become a Cardinal had this position existed in the United States church. His many visits to Europe seeking funds and priests were fruitful and his efforts to bring Catholicism to all parts of the diocese were the foundations of todays church in the region.