Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-25
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Apostolic Letters Erecting the
Episcopal See of Columbus.
Plus P. PIX.

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l. The office of Supreme Apostleship,
entrusted from on high to our humility,
demands from us to establish. at proper
times, whatever may be advantageous to
religion and the eternal salvation of souls;
wherefore, if at any, time, we perceive it to
be for the spiritual direction and safety of
souls, that new dioceses be erected through
out the world, we direct our attention to
their erection, and with apostolic authori-s
ty decree what seems to be opportune and
salutary. Since, therefore, the Sacred Pre-.
lates of the second Plenary Council of the
United States of North America, held at
Baltimore in the month of October, 1866,
have explained to us that it would great
ly profit the Catholic religion if the
territory of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati
were divided and new See erected in the
city of Columbus, we, after consultation
with our venerable brethren, the Cardinals,
having charge of the propagation of the
faith, have, resolved on the establishment of
the new See, by advice of the Cardinals
Aforesaid and of the fullness OF our apos-
tolic power, by these letters divide the ter
ritory of the Archdiocese of Cincin-
natl in such wise that that part in
the State of Ohio which nnes between
the Ohio river on the East and the
Scioto river on the West, with the addition
OF the counties of Franklin, Delaware and
Morrow, as far up as the southern limit of
Cleveland Diocese, belong to the new divis-
ion, and the rest of the State south of Cleve-
land Diocese, including Union, Marion and
Hardin counties, remain under the Arch
bishopric of Cincinnati. We will, also, that
the See of the new Cathedral be fixed in
the city of Columbus, and its Diocese be
called Colambiensis, and possess all the hon
ors, rights and privileges which other Epis-
copal Sees possess and enjoy. These we
viii and command, ETC., etc. - : = =
Giuef at st. Peters, in Rome, the third dayof
Mdrcf, in the gear of our Lord, 1868, and of
our Pontifcate the Twenty- g a'
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2, Venerable brother, greeting and Apos-
tolic Benedietiop. By the Office of the
Apostolate, committed by heaven to US,
though unworthy, whereby we attend to
the government of allzthe churches, under
the Providence of God, we are made anx-l
ious and watchful, that, when there is ques-
ton of providing for the government of
churches, we may. try to place over them
such persons as will know how to guide
the people committed to their charge,
not only by the teaching of the
word, but by the example of good works,
and will both desire and be able to guide
healthily and govern happily the churches
entrusted to them, For, long ago, we re-
served to ourselves the care of Sees then
vacant or to become so, decreeing null and
void any attempt to rule them whenever
made in malice or ignorance, or by what
soeyer authority. But when, acceding to
the petition of the Sacred Prelates of the
Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, held
in October, 1855, we created, by Apostolic
brief of this same date, the new Seeof co..
Iumbus, in the United States of America,
for the speedy and happy provision of
a chief pastor for it--in which mat
ter no one. but us has or can have
any right to interfere-c considering with
paternal and anxious care, and after
consultation with our venerable brethren.o
the Cardinals who have charge of the
Propagation of the Faith about appointing