58 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
the last 85 years, collected from two volumes of typewritten, 
transcripts from the Catholic Herald and Indo-European Corres - 
pondence (1845-1912) in the Library of the Bishop of Dacca. 
From 1834, when the Rev. Dr. St. Leger was appointed 
by the Propaganda Vicar Apostolic of Bengal, till 1845, East- 
tern Bengal formed part of the Vicariate of Calcutta. In the 
latter year steps were taken to erect this portion of the Pro- 
vince into a separate Vicariate, the first acting Vicar Apostolic 
being the Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Olliffe.'| During his time, in 
1847, the first Sisters (of the Loreto Order) came to Dacca and 
established the Nazareth Convent in the house next to St. 
Thomas’ Protestant Church. On the death of the Most Rev. 
Dr. Carew in November 1855, Dr. Olliffe assumed charge of 
the Western Bengal Mission and for the next five years Eastern 
engal was under the charge successively of the Very Rev. A. 
Goiran, Vicar General (till 1857) and the Rev. L. A. Verité of 
the Congregation of the Holy Cross (Pro-Vicar Apostolic). 
This Order of Priests, whose mother-house was at Le Mans, 
France, had first come to Eastern Bengal in 1853. On the 
death of Father Verité in 1859, Dr. Peter Dufal of the same 
Congregation, who come as a Missionary to Bengal in 1857, 
was appointed in July 1860 as the second Vicar Apostolic and 
Mission in Dacca was again placed in the hands of Fathers of 
the Order of the Holy Cross. 
The final settlement of the dispute between the Propaganda 
and Padroado (Portuguese Mission) was arrived at in 1886 
when a fuller concordat than that of 1857 was drawn up and 
a Bull (‘* Humanae Salutis Auctor,” | Sept., 1886) was issued 
to give force to the settlement. At the same time, the Indian 
Hierarchy was established, and the whole of the country 
divided into provinces, Dioceses, and Prefectures Apostolic. 

' Dr. Olliffe was confirmed as Vicar Apostolic by a decree of the 
Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, dated 15th February, 1850. 
* Mer. Dufal, who held the title of Bishop of Delcona, i.p.i., died 
at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1898, aged 76. 
