The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-01
The Hierarchy Of the Roman Catholic
Church.

The GerGrchtG CattoIicd is a sort of
directory of the Catholic Church. 1t is
due from the publishers early in the year,
but the appearance of the. present issue
has been delayed in order to include the
important nominations and appointments
that have been made recently. The
GerarchiG contains a complete list of the
digntaries, both high and small, of the
Church throughout the world.
This book was published first at the
beginning of the last century under the
pontiticate of Clement XII. The publica-
ton is commonly known and spoken OF
in Rome, not by its proper title, but as
u CrdcGS, name derived from the fact
that it had its origin in newspaper
printed as early as 1716 by one Giovanni
Francesca Ohracas. ..l.s l..t ... ...
The present number gives a list of the
263 Popes, ending as follows:
Joachim Pecci, born in Carpineto, March 2,
1910, elected February 70, 1873, and crowned
March g. is now in his I'D year and in the fifth
year of his pontihcate. d. IT.. a.t..
The Sacred College is now composed
of sixty-fve Cardinals. There are con-
sequently five vacancies, of which only
four remain to be filled, since the name
Of one new Cardinal is reserved in pee
tore-that is to say, has been determined
upon but not yet published.
The oldest member of the Sacred Col
lege is Cardinal Bonnet, Archbishop of
Bordeau; he is eighty-seven. The young
est is Cardinal Zigliari, only forty-nine.
a learned Dominican, supposed to be the
greatest Thomist living. The nationali-
ties of the Sacred College are as follows:
Italians. .............34 Portuguese....
Eremcn '.'' tr1sni '''.'''.'''''
Spanish ....... ...... Belgian. ..... ......
English. .............. 3Turkish. ......-..,..
Hungarian. ... ....... B American. ...........l
The tallest Cardinal is Howard, the
shortest Jacobini, Secretary of State.
The latest is Bartolini, the thinnest
McCloskey. All agree that the most
learned is Bilio, possibly the future
Pope. The greatest orator is Alimonda,
the greatest student Pitra, the greatest
linguist Haynald. Ten Cardinals have
been selected out of religious communi-
ties, fifty-fve from the secular clergy.
The aggregate age of the members OF
the Sacred College is 1890 years, which
gives an average of little over tifty-two
years.
Of the sixty-fve Cardinals six are of
the order of Bishops, forty-six of the
order of Priests, and thirteen of the order
of Deacons. Only one Cardinal is now
living who was created as far back as
Gregory XVI. Cardinal Schwarzenberg,
Archbishop of Prague. He is fourteen
years Younger than Bonnet, but has been
Cardinal ten years longer There are
forty three Cardinals of Pic Nono's Gre
alton, and twenty-one created by the
present Pope. Since Leo XIII. was
crowned twenty Cardinals have died,
averaging five yearly. .a.f
1t seems only yesterday since Arch
bishop McCloskey was made Cardinal;
yet he stands already in the first quarter
of the college in regard to age OF crea-
| ton. i.,a 3 Iift .aB.4 ~ buG ifl u.s.
OF the nine patriarchial sees OF the
Catholic Church, that of Constantinople
is vacant, while the others are filled.
The Latin rite has all over the world 149
archiepiscopal sees, and the Oriental rite
has twenty-seven. There are sos Bishops
of the Latin rite forty-seyen of the ORR
entail. .Li,......f.
Figures corrected to April of the pre-
sent year show that throughout the
world the Catholic Church has a hierarchy
1 composed of 1899 prelates having jurls-
diction. In this number are not included
the Vicar-Generals of the dioceses nor
the honorary Monsignor. During his
.pontificate, Leo XIII. has erected five
archiepiscopal sees, fifteen episcopal sees,
seven apostolic vicarates and then pre-
lectures. The ordinary denomination
of some sees ia parti6us tafdet'tm
has been dropped this year. For ex-
ample, Archbishop Corrigan, Coad-
tutor of New York, who last year
was known as Archbishop of Petra.
IN partibuS, is mentioned this year as
Archbishop of the titular see of Petra,
the IN parti6,ts being dropped altogether
The Pope has taken this step because
many of those ancient sees are no longer
inhabited by inlidels, bat by Christians. -
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