Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-03-21
The CathoIlc church.

The Roman Catholic directory for 1868
contains some interesting facts and sta
| tistics. The volume opens with the
'sCatholic Hierarchy at the head of
which stands the name of Plus TX, his
full title being as "Bishop of Rome and
Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of st.
Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme
PontiH Of the Universal Church, Patri-
arch of the West, Primate of Italy, Arch
bishop and Metropolitan of the Roman
Province, and Sovereign of the Tempo
raj Dominions of the Holy Roman
Church. . Then follows the Sacred Col
lega, which. when complete, consists of
six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests
and fourteen cardinal deacons. There are
seven patriarchs of the Latin rite, five of
the Oriental rite, with patriarchal juris-
dictfon; one hundred and seventy-seven
archiepiscopal sees, and seven hundred
and eighteen bishops; but if are taken
into account prelates who have retired
from active duties, and the bishops IN
partibus isffdelianl, most of whom are CO.
adjutor bishops, the total number of pa
SANS anu DASuOpS
throughout the world who acknowledge
obedience to the sovereign pontiff reach
es l ,1eo. The Catholic church in Eng
land and Wales is composed of twelve di-
oceses, at the head of which stands the
archbishopric of Westminster, presided
over by Cardinal Manning. The oldest
Catholic bishop in England is DIR. Brown,
bishop of Newport and Meneyia, who was
eonsecrated in 1910, and who, owing to
his age and the extent of his diocese, re-
ceiyed an assistant bishop in the person
of DR.. Hedley, in 1873. Scotland, which
has not yet had the hierarchy restored to
it, is divided not into dioceses, but into
districts, over which Wears apostolic are
appointed by the holy see. Ireland has
twenty-eight dioceses, at the head of
which is Doublin, which diocese is sub
jeeted to Cardinal Cullen, who, as apos-
tolic delegate, exercises an authority
greater than Cardinal Manning in Eng
land. Taken together, the Roman Cath
olic sees and vicariates in Great Britain
and Ireland and colonial empire numbers
one hundred and twenty-six, all receiv-
ing their episcopal commissions from the
see of Rome. The total number of Ro-
man Catholic in the United Kingdom is
estimated at G, 900 ,0OO The town of Liv-
erpool contains % Catholic churches, and
in the whole of the Liverpool diocese, in
Guiding the Isle of Man, there are 126
churches or chapels. The diocese of
Southwark is the only one which sur
passes Liverpool in the number of priests
in England, Scotland, and Wales is 2, ,157,
and the numbers of public churches, chap
els, or stations, 1,348. The law of the
Catholic in regard to the marriage of CATH
olics to Protestants is thus laid down in
the directory: ga mixed mrriage' (that
is, a marriage between a Catholic and one
who, though baptized, does not profess
| the Catholic faith) may net take place
without dispensation, and the dispensa-
ton cannot lawfully be given unless for
a sufficiently grave reason, and subject to
the following conditions:
l.. That all the children that may be
born of the marriage shall be baptized
/ and brought up in the Catholic faith
2. That the Catholic party shall have
full liberty for the practice of the Catho-
lie religion
! g.. That no religious marriage ceremo-
ny shall take place elsewhere than in the
Catholic church.
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