1. Anthony Kohlmann played a decisive role in the early formation of the Archdiocese of New York, where he was the subject of a lawsuit that for the first time recognized the confessional privilege in the United States, and served as the president of Georgetown College from 1817 to 1820.
Anthony Kohlmann left for the United States in 1806, where he taught at Georgetown College and ministered to German-speaking congregations in the mid-Atlantic region.
Anthony Kohlmann founded a school, the New York Literary Institution; established an orphanage; and invited the first Ursuline nuns to the United States.
In 1813, the City of New York sought to compel Anthony Kohlmann to disclose the identity of a thief, which he learned during a confession.
Anthony Kohlmann returned to Maryland in 1815 as superior of the Jesuits' Maryland Mission and president of Georgetown College.
Anthony Kohlmann later became a consultor to the College of Cardinals and various curial congregations, and was then appointed Qualificator of the Inquisition.
Anthony Kohlmann joined the Capuchin order, but fled to Switzerland because the order was persecuted as part of the larger dechristianization of France during the French Revolution.
Anthony Kohlmann ministered throughout Austria for two years, during which he drew commendations for his work in Hagenbrunn during a plague.
Anthony Kohlmann then went to Italy, where he was chaplain at a military hospital in Pavia for two years.
Anthony Kohlmann was sent to Bavaria in 1801, where he became the director of the Ecclesiastical Seminary at Dillingen.
Anthony Kohlmann then spent time as the rector of a college in Berlin, before founding a college in Amsterdam, which was run by the Society of the Faith of Jesus, an order with which the Society of the Sacred Heart had merged in 1799.
Anthony Kohlmann applied for admission to the Society of Jesus, which, despite its worldwide suppression since 1773, had been operating in the Russian Empire.
Anthony Kohlmann eventually was instructed to travel to Russia, and he arrived in Riga in June 1805.
Anthony Kohlmann entered the Jesuit novitiate in Daugavpils on June 21,1803, where he spent only a year before the superiors were satisfied that he was academically qualified.
Anthony Kohlmann left Hamburg on August 20,1806, arrived in Baltimore on November 4.
Anthony Kohlmann introduced many of the customs that the Jesuits in exile the Russian Empire observed.
Anthony Kohlmann heard confessions from parishioners at Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia because their pastor had not mastered the English language.
Anthony Kohlmann became the pastor of St Peter's Church, replacing Matthew Byrne, who sought to be relieved so that he could join the Society of Jesus.
Anthony Kohlmann was prolific in administering the other sacraments, visiting hospitals, and teaching catechesis.
Anthony Kohlmann created a subscription among parishioners to raise money for the poor.
Anthony Kohlmann determined that St Peter's was inadequate to serve the entire Catholic population of New York City.
Anthony Kohlmann began establishing a new church that would serve as the cathedral of the diocese.
Anthony Kohlmann purchased land on what were then the outskirts of New York City, among farmland and on the edge of the wilderness.
Anthony Kohlmann oversaw its completion and gave it the name of St Patrick.
When it appeared that Concanen's successor, John Connolly, would arrive in the United States, Anthony Kohlmann was recalled to Maryland in January 1815.
Anthony Kohlmann was succeeded by Fenwick as vicar general and administrator of New York and pastor of St Peter's Church.
Anthony Kohlmann rented a house on Mulberry Street, across from the cathedral, where the four Jesuit scholastics began teaching 35 Catholic and Protestant students, a minority of whom boarded at the school.
Anthony Kohlmann continued to reside at Mulberry Street, where he could perform his pastoral duties at Old St Patrick's and St Peter's.
Anthony Kohlmann made Benedict Fenwick the president of the school.
Anthony Kohlmann became convinced that New York City would remain the preeminent city in the United States and that the Jesuits should shift their ministerial efforts to it, rather than focus on their rural plantations in Maryland, which he described as "graveyards for Europeans".
Anthony Kohlmann went so far as to advocate the relocation of Georgetown College to New York, which he argued was of "greater importance to the Society than all the other states together".
Anthony Kohlmann established an orphanage, which he placed under the care of Trappist nuns who had fled persecution in France.
In 1813, Anthony Kohlmann became the subject of a lawsuit that rose to the national interest.
The police prosecuted the two accused, but before the trial could be brought to a close, Keating declared that he had been paid restitution, with Anthony Kohlmann acting as an intermediary in the transaction.
The New York County District Attorney subpoenaed Anthony Kohlmann to provide the name of the thief who paid the restitution, but Anthony Kohlmann refused to reveal his identity, stating that it had been disclosed to him during the Sacrament of Penance and was therefore protected under canon law by the seal of the confessional.
Anthony Kohlmann was brought before the Court of General Sessions to compel him to provide the identity of the thief.
Anthony Kohlmann was represented by two Protestant defense attorneys: Richard Riker and William Sampson.
The four judges, DeWitt Clinton, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Richard Cunnin, and Isaac Douglas, ruled in favor of Anthony Kohlmann, citing religious liberty as the basis of their decision.
Anthony Kohlmann wrote a book directed at non-Catholics, explaining the Catholic doctrine on the Sacrament of Penance.
Shortly after that, Giovanni Antonio Grassi left Maryland for Rome, and Anthony Kohlmann succeeded him as the superior of the Jesuits' Maryland Mission on September 10,1817.
Anthony Kohlmann assumed Kohlmann's role of mission superior on April 23,1819.
When Benedict Fenwick left for Rome in 1817, Anthony Kohlmann was selected to succeed him as president of Georgetown College.
Anthony Kohlmann aligned with the European Jesuits who advocated a rigorous classical curriculum that placed a special emphasis on Latin and Ancient Greek, while the Anglo-American Jesuits supported a diminished emphasis on the classics in favor of mathematics and science.
Anthony Kohlmann encouraged proselytization of the Protestant students, to which their parents and some of the Anglo-American Jesuits objected.
However, the plot was discovered before it could be acted upon, and Anthony Kohlmann expelled the six conspirators.
Anthony Kohlmann became the first president and rector of the school on August 15,1820, and assumed the position of professor of dogma.
Anthony Kohlmann admitted day students reluctantly and out of financial necessity, as it violated a law of the Jesuit order that forbade them from accepting compensation for educating youths.
Anthony Kohlmann instructed her to pray a novena in union with the German Prince Alexander von Hohenlohe, who had gained a reputation as a miracle worker.
Anthony Kohlmann held this post for five years, during which time one of his students was Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, who would go on to become Pope Leo XIII; another was Paul Cullen, who would become the Archbishop of Dublin and the first Irish cardinal.
Anthony Kohlmann became a consultor to the staff of the College of Cardinals.
Anthony Kohlmann retired to the Jesuit house attached to the Church of the Gesu in 1831, where he served as confessor, aided by his knowledge of several languages.
In 1833, he met the future theologian Augustin Theiner; along with the future cardinal Karl-August von Reisach, Anthony Kohlmann influenced Theiner's decision to convert to Catholicism.