 It was not until after the end of the American Revolution that plans to establish a permanent Catholic institution for education in the United States were realized.Because of Benjamin Franklin's recommendation, Pope Pius VI appointed former Jesuit John Carroll as the first head of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, even though the papal suppression of the Jesuit order was still in effect.Carroll began meetings of local clergy in 1783 near Annapolis, Maryland, where they orchestrated the development of a new university.