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EOMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



ARCHBISHOPRICS. 



Suffragan Bishoprics. 



Countries over which 

 Eccles. Prov. extends. 



New York. 

 Baltimore., 



Cincinnati 



St. Louis 



New Orleans... 

 San Francisco. 



Oregon City 



Quebec 



Halifax 



Port of Spain.. 

 Mexico 



Michoacan 



Guadalajara 



Guatemala 



Santiago de Cuba. 



San Domingo 



Port-au-Prince 



Caracas 



Bogota 



Quito 



Santiago 



Lima 



Buenos Ayres 



Charcas 



Bahia... 



Albany, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Burlington, Hartford, Newark, Portland, 

 Rochester. 



Charleston, Erie, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Richmond, Savan- 

 nah, Scran ton, Wheeling, Wilmington. 



Cleveland, Columbus, Covmgton, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Louisville, Mar- 

 quette, Vincennes. [Santa Fe, St. Joseph, St. Paul. 



Alton, Chicago, Dubuque, Green Bay, La Crosse, Milwaukee, Nashville, 



Galveston, Mobile, Little Rock, Natchez, Natchitoches. 



Monterey, Grass Valley. 



Nesqualy*, Vancouver's Island. 



Rimouski, Hamilton, Kingston, Sandwich, Montreal, St. Boniface, St. Hya- 

 cinth, Toronto, Three Rivers, Ottawa (Bytown). 



Arichat, Charlottetown, Chatham, St. John's (New Brunswick). 



Roseau (and the Vicariate Apostolic of Demerara and Jamaica). 



Antequera (or Oaxaca), Chiapa, Chilapa, Yucatan (or Merida), Tlascala (or 

 Puebla), Tulacingo, Vera Cruz (or Jalapa). 



Leon, San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Zamora. 



Durango, Linares, Sonora, Zacatecas. 



Comayagua, Nicaragua, San Jose (Costa Rica), San Salvador. 



Havana. 



Porto Rico. 



Aux Cayes, Cape Haytien, Gonaives, Port-a-la-Paix. 



Barquisimeto, Calabozo, Guayana, Merida. 



Antioquia, Cartagena, Pamplona Nueva, Panama, Pasto, Popayan, S. Marta. 



Cuenca, Guayaquil, Ibarra, Loja, Riobamba. 



Concepcion, Ancud, Coquimbo. 



Arequipa, Chachapoyas, Cuzco, Guamanga y Ayacucho, Huanuco, Puno, 



Cordova, Cuyo, Parana, Salta, Asuncion. [Trujillo, 



Cochabamba, La Paz, S. Cruz de la Sierra. 



Cuyaba, Diamantina, Fortalezza, Goyazes, Marianne. Para, Pernambuco, 

 Rio Janeiro, Maragnano, S. Paolo, San Pedro nel Rio Grande. 



United States. 



United States and 

 British America. 



British America. 



Mexico. 



Central America. 

 West Indies. 



Venezuela. 



U. S. of Colombia. 



Ecuador. 



Chili. 



Peru. 



Argentine Republic 



and Paraguay. 



Bolivia. 



Brazil. 



In addition to the sees above enumerated, 

 there are two immediately subject to the Holy 

 See St. John's and Harbor Grace, in Nova 

 Scotia ; and two belonging to the French Ec- 

 clesiastical Province of Bordeaux. Total num- 

 ber of American archbishoprics, 25 ; of bishop- 

 rics, 127; of American dioceses, 152. 



Besides these bishops, there were, in Amer- 

 ica, in 1868, 13 vicars apostolic (Nebraska, 

 North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Idaho, Mon- 

 tana, East of Eocky Mountains, British Colum- 

 bia, Cura9oa, Jamaica, Mackenzie, Demerara, 

 Surinam), and 2 prefects apostolic (Islands of 

 St. Pierre and Miquelon, Cayenne). 



The following are the statistics of some of 

 the monastic orders (according to P. Karl von 

 heil. Aloys, Statist. JaJirbuch der Kirche, 

 Eatisbon, 1862) : Male Franciscans, 50,000 ; 

 School Brethren, 16,000 ; Congregations for 

 nursing the sick, 6,000 ; Benedictines, 5,000 ; 

 Dominicans, 4,000; Carmelites, 4,000; Trap- 

 pists, 4,000; Lazarists, 2,000; Piarists, 2,000; 

 Eedem.ptorists, 2,000. There are about 190,- 

 000 members in female orders, of whom 162,000 

 are in Europe, 20,000 in America, and the rest 

 in other parts of the world. The order of Jes- 

 uits, according to the latest published statis- 

 tics (1868), comprises 8,168 members, of whom 

 1,589 speak the Italian language, 2,422 French, 

 2,111 the various tongues of Northern Europe, 

 1,148 Spanish, and 698 English. The entire 

 Order is distributed into twenty-one provinces. 

 From authentic records it appears that there is 

 an increase of nearly 100 members yearly. 

 Those on mission all over the world are 1,358. 



The number of archbishoprics, bishoprics, 

 and yicariates in the British dominions is (ac- 

 cording to the London Catholic Directory for 

 1869) as follows : 



England proper had, in 1868, 1,489 priests, 

 1,122 churches, chapels, and stations, 67 com- 

 munities of men, 214 female convents, and 18 

 colleges ; Scotland, 201 priests, 207 churches, 

 chapels, and stations, 18 convents and 2 col- 

 leges. The Directory gives the number of 

 Eoman Catholic peers of Great Britain as 30, 

 and the number of Eoman Catholic baronets 

 as 50. It also names 38 Eoman Catholic mem- 

 bers of the House of Commons, most of whom 

 are from Ireland. 



In accordance with the design expressed 

 in his allocution to the assembly of the Eo- 

 man Catholic bishops, held in Eome, in June, 

 1867 (see ANNUAL AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA for 

 1867), the Pope on the 29th of June, 1868, 

 issued a Bull convoking an (Ecumenical 

 Council of the Eoman Catholic Church, to be- 

 gin in Eome, on the 8th of December, 1869. 

 The Bull is as follows : 



The 'only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, out 

 of the great love which He bore unto us, descended 

 from liis celestial throne, in order to redeem, in the 

 fulness of time, the whole human race from the yoke 

 of sin and from bondage to Satan and the darkness of 

 terror in which, by the fault of their first parent, 

 they had long since miserably fallen ; and He. not 

 declining from the paternal glory, was born or the 



