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ROMAN CATHOLIC CHUUCM. 



Two saints were canonized > isistory of 



Cardinals in the year. An ..vana. founder 



of the Barnabites. ami IVier" Fouri- r. "f Mattain- 

 court, surnained the Apostle of Lorraine. \ 

 sistorr helii in April created four cardinals : Most 

 Her. ivrn y de la Iglesia. 



bishop of Santiago of Compostclln -u. 26, 



. ' : \rehblsh,,p 



of Lyons, born Man-h 14. 1 *:.".; the Mo>t BUv, 



.1 \\ . l..ii Itennes, born Oct. 27, 



and the W. M. Romano Sourrieu, 



; .urn. U.rn Feb. 'J7. 182. 

 i>tn-. ::ed i nt ho year 1897: 



William Sanfelice di Avquav. ia. Archbishop of 

 *; Angi-1 ': -lalnry. HMiop of 



PaJertriim: Camillo Stailianodi Kende. Archbishop 

 of Benevt : -In MofMtohillo y Viso, Arch- 



bishop of Toledo, Patriarch of the \V, ,; I: 

 Joseph (in.: -.lii-hop of Messina. 



The Kninan < ureh is governed by the 



as its head. He is assisted by a 

 senate, known as the Sacred College of Cardinal-. 

 iKxly when complete numl>ers 7-". Tin- mem- 

 bers are ranked by ancient custom in :'. .i:\i-i-n- : 

 nal bishops, of whom there are 6; cardinal 

 deacons, of whom there are 16; and ranlinal 

 priests, of win >i n there a- li cardinal has 



what is called a title that is a local church at 

 Rome of which he is nominally the head or pa-tor. 

 The episcopate of the Catholic Church i> divide. I 

 patriarchal, an -hiepiscopal. and episcopal sees. 

 These again are divided into the Latin rite and 

 Oriental rite. There are b Latin patriarchal sees, 

 which have now only an historical importance- 

 Constantinople. ia. Antioch. Jerusalem. 

 Lisbon, East Indies, West Indies, and Venice. The 

 al patriarchal sees are 6: Antioch. from which 

 are named three patriarchs, of the Mclchitc rite. 

 the Maronite rite, and the Syriac rite: Cilicia, of 

 the Armenian rite; Babylon, of the Chaldaic rite; 

 and Alexandria, <>f the Coptic rite. 



re are 101 archieniscopal sees in the Catholic 

 O'hurch, of which 1?;J belong to the Latin rite. 

 The episcopal sees number ?'?. nf which 714 are of 

 There are besides certain abbeys, 

 arch presbyteries, priories prelates, and prelatures 

 of an episcopal character, 17 in number, making in 

 all some 1,064 officers of episcopal or quasi-epis- 

 copal character or jui 



The< .itholic Population of the World. In 

 1807 the number of Catholics was reckoned as fol- 

 lows: Europe, 1 : 30,000; Africa, 

 8,800,000 ; America, 51,100,000 ; Oceanica, 980,000 ; 

 000,000. 



The United States. On Jan. 19 Dr. T. .1. 

 Conaly. formerly of Worc.-t. -r, Mass., was installed 

 as the rector of the Catholic University at Wash- 

 ington. Bishop Keane, his predecessor, havn 

 signed, was called to i was there raised to 



the dignity of Archbishop of Damascus i. p. i. and 

 made a canon of St. John Lateran and adrift 

 the congregations of Propaganda and EcclesiaM i.- a l 

 Studies. The Sisters of Notre Dame undertook the 

 establishment of a college for the higher edueat ion 

 of women by the purchase of 20 acres of land in the 

 immediate proximity of the Catholic University. 



The Catholic Summer S-lio.,1 met, in July, at 

 Plattsburr r a six weeks' session. A 



mer school was also held at Madi .,nd a 



winter school was conducted at New Orleans. 



The question of mernU-rs of the Greek Catholic 

 Church living in the United States was settled in 

 May by a pontifical decree |ermitting them to con- 

 form to the Latin rite, provided that no Greek 

 church should be accessible to the- . how- 



ever, they should return to their own country, they 

 must adopt again the Oriental rite. 



The annual meeting of the archbishops of the 

 United Slates was h. Id at NVa-l.in-ton. Oct. :U. 



folio wing episcopal appointment! were made 

 durii.. hi Etev. Jamea 'I'l-.-bcc. lti>hnp 



Lenihan. \>. \>., 



John J, Mona- 



ghan. D. D., Bishop of Wilmington ; IJight 

 .rd I 1 . All..,. D. !>.. I'.i.hop of Mobil,-; 



Jhop of NY*,,uail> ; 

 nues (^uigley. Bisliop "| r.ulTalo; 



Right 'iiior Mi-1. 



hxlraond F. 1'rendei-a-i. h. h.. 



Titular 1'ii-lmp of Scillio i'. i>. i.. Auxiliary l'.i-lioi> 

 ..f Philadelphia. Tl i.'ocllewas 



tran-feiTcd from the an-hdiocese of New 

 that of N,-\v Orleans. 



oih.r appointment-: V-ry Hrv. .b.vrpli I 



mann, appointed provincial of the cnigrepition of 



the I-'ailn-r< of tin- Holy (ih,,st in the Unite, 1 s- 



1 . I '.. elected general con-ultor 



of the Pas-ionist Congregation for the United s- 



l-Mwai-d .1. I'urbrick. S. .1.. api.ointed 

 pro\incialof the New York and Maryland : 



of the .lesuit order to succeed' \ 



William o'|{. Pardow : \'ery Rev. George DeshOQ, 



i -uperior u'-'iieral <.f the priests of tl. 

 stittlte of St. Paul the Apostle. 



The College of St. Pranetl Xavier. in the citv of 

 New York, on June il.i-elehrated its golden jubilee. 

 On Dec. 5 was celebrated the fiftieth anniversary 

 of the Cathedral of Milwaukee. Most Kev. Patrick 

 .1. l;\an. An-hl'i>hop of Philadelphia, celebrated his 

 twenty-fifth anniversarv of episcopal consee:- 



On April 'Jl. The ffplden jubilee of \ 

 AiiLTii-t ine l-\ Hewitt, Superior (Ji-neral of Priests of 

 the Institute of St. Paul the Apostle was celebrated 

 on March 27. and was followed by his death on 

 June 3. Other deaths were: Mo.-i :ancis 



Janssens, D. D., Archbishop of New Orleans, on 

 June I','; M--t K.-v. Thomas L. (irace. lti-li..p of 

 St. Paul: Ki^ht Uev. J. T. I'.utler. h. I >.. Itishop 

 elect of Concord ia, Kan.; and Kev. I-'at:. 

 mans, of Troy, N. V.. the .lde-t priest in the 



Alaska. The Very Rev. John B. Rene, S .1 .. 

 was made Prefect Apostolic of Alaska, with 

 dence at Juneau City. There are in Alaska 11 

 ts, H ehnrche^, :j' hospitals, schools, and % J 

 orphanages with 250 pupils. 



Canada. The hierarchy of Canada is composed 

 of 8 archbishops and 24 bishops. The clergy num- 

 ber 2,917, of which 2,208 are diocesan, 70'.' 

 There are 2.5.",.-) churches an<l chapels, and 11 

 naries with 71 1 students. There are 85 scho. 



.res for boys and 275 academic- f.,r -iris. The 

 charitable institutions are 240. The Catholic pop- 

 ulation numbers 2,092,936. The most important 

 religious event of the vear was the encyclical of 

 the rope, issued to the Canadian epi D Dec. 



s. by which he counseled patience under the op] 

 sive legislation that took from the Catholic j 

 of Manitoba their established rights in the matter 

 of schools. lb Moderation, rnildne. and 



charity, in order thereby to obtain more quickly a 

 thoroughly Christian legislation. Until that time 

 he desired the Catholics to draw from the existing 

 laws all the good possible, and. when- it mi^ht 

 prove necessary, to found schools themselves. 

 to provide them with teachers who should not be 

 inferior in learning and training to the teachers of 



For furthering the adjustment of the Manitoba 

 school question, the Pope appointed IJjght Rev. 

 M_-r. ELMerrj ! 1 Val apostolic delegate to Canada. 

 Mgr. Paul Bruchesi was consecrated Archbishop of 

 Mont real, Aug 8. The episcopal see of Vancouver 

 island was made vacant by the death of Right Rev. 



