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ates, with the title of monsignor; Miss Anne 

 Leary, of New York, a countess ; and Mr. John D. 

 Crimmins a knight of the Order of St. Gregory. 



In the past year 21,800 children were confirmed, 

 10 new schoolhouses were erected, and 11 others 

 were generally improved in the archdiocese of 

 Chicago. The number of new parishes established 

 in the same period was 14. Twelve new churches 

 were built, and 18 others have replaced smaller 

 and less substantial edifices. The Catholic popu- 

 lation is estimated at about 800,000 and the 

 students of colleges, academies, and parochial 

 schools at 67,318. The priests, diocesan and regu- 

 lar, number 538. 



Archbishop Ryan has been appointed by Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt to fill the vacancy in the Indian 

 Commission caused by the death of the Protestant 

 Bishop Whipple. 



By the will of the late Col. John McKee, of 

 Philadelphia, long recognized as the wealthiest 

 colored man in the United States,- an estate valued 

 at more than $2,000,000 has been given to Catholic 

 charity. 



On the evening of Monday, May 5, the Most 

 Rev. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, died. 

 See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



On May 17 the Very Rev. William J. Kenny 

 was consecrated Bishop of St. Augustine, Fla., in 

 the cathedral of that city. Bishop Kenny has 

 been for twenty-five years a priest of the diocese, 

 and for some years past its vicar-general and ad- 

 ministrator. On May 25 Dr. Garrigan, late vice- 

 rector of the Catholic University, was consecrated 

 bishop of the newly erected see of Sioux City, 

 Iowa. The ceremony took place in the cathe- 

 dral at Springfield, Mass. 



On May 10 Mgr. Zardetti died in Rome. 

 He was well known in America, having been Bish- 

 op of St. Cloud, Minn. In 1894 he was trans- 

 ferred to the archiepiscopal see of Bucharest, in 

 Roumania. 



Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, died July 12. 

 He had been archbishop since 1880. 



Two Augustinians, Father D. J. O'Mahoney, of 

 Lawrence, Mass., and Father J. A. McErlain, of 

 Villanova College, Philadelphia, have been sent to 

 the Philippines by the Rev. M. J. Geraghty, pro- 

 vincial of the order in America. 



On Sept. 6 Archbishop Chapelle left New Or- 

 leans for Havana. His visit to Cuba was in con- 

 nection with his duties as apostolic delegate to 

 the island. Just before leaving, the archbishop 

 received instructions from Cardinal Rampolla to 

 set out for Rome as soon as he had inspected the 

 condition of the Church in Cuba. 



In September the Right Rev. John M. Farley, 

 Auxiliary Bishop of New York, was appointed 

 archbishop in succession to the late Archbishop 

 Corrigan. Archbishop Farley has held various 

 places of trust in the diocese. He was private sec- 

 retary of Cardinal McCloskey for several years, 

 was appointed vicar-general of the diocese by 

 Archbishop Corrigan, and on Dec. 21, 1895, was 

 consecrated Bishop Auxiliary of New York. 



The Right Rev. George Montgomery, Bishop of 

 Los Angeles, Cal., has been appointed coadjutor, 

 with the right of succession, to Archbishop Rior- 

 dan of San Francisco. 



The Rev. James J. Keane, pastor of the Church 

 of the Immaculate Conception, Minneapolis, Minn., 

 was named Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo., successor 

 to the late Bishop Thomas M. Lenihan; and the 

 Very Rev. J. N. Stariha, vicar-general of the arch- 

 diocese of St. Paul, Minn., as first bishop of the 

 newly erected see of Lead City, which is part of the 

 diocese of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. . 



His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons celebrated on 



Oct. 3 his silver jubilee as Archbishop of Balti- 

 more. This is the third jubilee the cardinal has 

 had since his arrival in that city. On June 30, 

 1886, he celebrated his silver jubilee as a priest 

 by choosing it for the day of his investiture as 

 cardinal, and on Aug. 16, 1893, he celebrated the 

 silver jubilee of his consecration as bishop. 



The Right Rev. William George McCloskey, 

 Bishop of Louisville, Ky., celebrated on Oct. 6 

 the golden jubilee of his priesthood. The bishop 

 is a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was born 

 Nov. 10, 1823. 



His Excellency the Most Rev. Diomede Fal- 

 conio, O. F. M., papal delegate to Canada since 

 Oct. 12, 1899, assumed his duties at Washington 

 as successor to Cardinal Martinelli on Nov. 20. 

 Mgr. Falconio was born at Prescocostanza, in 

 Abruzzo, Italy, in 1842, and entered the Order 

 of St. Francis at the age of eighteen. He was 

 sent to the United States in 1865, and in the fol- 

 lowing year was ordained priest. 



The Right Rev. James Edward Quigley, Bishop 

 of Buffalo, has been appointed Archbishop of Chi- 

 cago, to succeed the late Archbishop Feehan. 



Canada. The Canadian Catholic population is 

 2,228,997, or nearly half that of Canada. The 

 Methodists number 916,862; the Presbyterians, 

 842,301; the Anglicans, 680,346; the Baptists, 292,- 

 485. 



Two events of importance have marked the 

 University of Ottawa, the appointment of the 

 Rev. J. I. Emery, O. M. I., for several years sta- 

 tioned at Buffalo, N. Y., as rector, and the open- 

 ing of the new Science Hall, thoroughly equipped 

 with all modern improvements and the latest 

 scientific apparatus. 



Mgr. Donate Sbaretti, auditor of the Ameri- 

 can delegation under Cardinal Satolli, and af- 

 terward Bishop of Havana, Cuba, has been ap- 

 pointed to succeed Archbishop Falconio as dele- 

 gate apostolic of Canada. Archbishop Sbaretti 

 was born in Montefranco, in the archdiocese of 

 Spoleto, in 1856. 



Very soon after his consecration Bishop Brey- 

 not set out to visit his new vicariate of Macken- 

 zie and Yukon, extending from latitude 60 north 

 to the Arctic Ocean. The visitation will thus ex- 

 tend beyond the arctic circle. The Catholic ad- 

 vance is rapid. Dawson City has a parish church, 

 with eight chapels in outlying mining stations. 

 There is a Catholic school also and a hospital. 



Three priests, one lay brother, and four nuns 

 of the Order of St. Basil, Ruthenian rite, and one 

 secular priest of the same rite, set out from Ham- 

 burg for the Canadian Northwest. They will la- 

 bor among the numerous Catholic Galicians of 

 Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. There 

 are 35,000 Ruthenian uniates in that section of 

 Canada. 



England. The archbishops and bishops of 

 England and Scotland number 24. There are 

 3,500 priests, of whom 2,393 are secular and 1,107 

 regular. The number of churches, chapels, and 

 mission stations is 1,926. 



Bishop Vaughan died late in October, at the 

 age of eighty-eight, after nearly fifty years of 

 episcopate. He had been practically inactive for 

 eleven years, a coadjutor having been given to him. 



King Edward sent, by Gen. Kelly Kenny, the 

 cross of the exclusive and highly aristocratic or- 

 ders of SS. Michael and George to Father HoHil. 

 an oblate of Mary and missionary in South Af- 

 rica. The honor was merited by the devoted care 

 of Father Hecht for the wounded soldiers during 

 the late war. It is said that he opened eighteen 

 hospitals. He himself was near dying through 

 fever contracted during his labors. 



