GREEK CATHOLICS IN AMERICA 197 



Illinois ■ 4 



Massachusetts 4 



Indiana 3 



Missouri 3 



West Virginia 2 



Minnesota 2 



Rhode Island i 



Virginia i 



The Ruthenian Greek Catholic clergy in the United States 

 consists (1909) of one bishop and 118 priests, originating from 

 the following dioceses : 



Diocese Monks Secular Qergy 



Celibates Married Widowers 



Lemberg 4 8 5 5 



Przemysl 6 12 2 



Stanislau 2 2 i 



Eperies i 13 10 



Munkacs 2 i 30 5 



Kreutz i 



Scranton i 2 



Philadelphia 4 



Pittsburgh i 



6 25 64 23 



Several of these priests are converts from the Orthodox 

 Greek Church in the United States. As has been said, men 

 who are already married are ordained to the diaconate and 

 priesthood in the Greek Church, and so it naturally followed 

 that married priests were sent to America. While a married 

 priesthood seems repugnant to a Catholic of the Latin Rite, 

 yet it is strongly adhered to by the Greek Catholics as vaguely 

 a part of their nationality and Eastern Rite. All American 

 Greek Catholic priests will hereafter be ordained from celibate 

 candidates only, according to the provisions of the Apostolic 

 Letter "Ea semper," which will be referred to later. The 

 growing importance of the Greek Rite in America, the dissen- 

 sions arising out of old-country political factions among the 

 Ruthenians, which will be mentioned later on, and which occa- 

 sioned serious interference with the normal growth of the 

 Greek Church, and the increasing intensity of the efforts of 

 the Russian Orthodox to detach the Ruthenians in America 

 from their faith and unity caused the Holy Father in 1907 to 

 provide a Greek Catholic bishop for America. Previous to 

 this (1902) the Holy See had sent the Right Rev. Andrew 

 Hodobay, titular abbot and canon of the Greek Diocese of 



