The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-08
BISHOP VIGGHR'S FETH.
He Was Ordained d Priest
TWenty-fiY Years
Ago.
a GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
Both His Predecessors Have Been
Made Archbishops---His
Jubilee Celebration.

The most important event in Catholic
circles during the coming week will
be the celebration Of the silver
Jubilee of the Right Rev. Bishop
Wigger, which takes place Tuesday next.
on which occasion he will have been or
dained priest twenty five years. The
ceremonies will take place at st. Patrick's
Cathedral, Newark, although the Bishop
Is anxious to merely hold a quiet recep-
ton at the episcopal residence at Seton
Hail College, South Orange. The priests
and people are anxious to show their love
and veneration for the Bishop, and so
will present testimonials of their affec-
ton from time to time during the next
mouth.
The students OF Seton Hall College
will appropriately celebrate the jubilee
On June Is, on which occasion the COM
inencement exercises of the college Will
take l.lace and later the Total Abstinence
Union will present an address One form
of the jubilee celebration will be popu-
lar subscription to the Leo House for
German immigrants, near Castle Garden,
New York, of which the Bishop is presi-
dent.
The Rt. Rev. Winant M. Wigger was
born in New York City December, 1884,
and in his youth studied in the Jesuit
College of st. Francis Xavier, Sixteenth
street, New York. After completing
his studies there he entered Seton
Hall College, South Orange, where he
pursued his theological studies for some
time. but being too young for ordination
at the completion of his course, he was
sent to the famous Brignoli Sale at Genoa
by the Rt. Rev. j. X. Bayley, the bishop
OF the diocese, where ne continued his
studies until June 10, 1866, on which day
he was ordained, at the age of twenty
three. Going back to the country of his
birth, his first appointment was at the
Cathedral in Newark, where he remained
for TWO years, after which he was appointed
pastor of St. Vincent's Church in Madi-
son. Up to this time the diocese of New
ark included all this State, the Rt. Rev
NJ. A. Corrigan, DID,, now Archbishop
of New York, being bishop, he having
succeeded the Most Rev. j. X. Bayley, on
May 4. 1873 when Bishop Bayley was
translated to the Archiepiscopal See of
Baltimore. In 1881, Bishop Corrigan hav-
ing been appointed coadjutor to Cardinal
McCloskey, the diocese was divided into
two sees, one called Trenton and the other
Newark. The RE-. Rev. Michael J. o Far
rel was appointed first bishop of the new
diocese of Trenton. and the Rt. Rev.
Winant Nj. Wigger. first bishop of the
new diocese of Newark.
HE CONTROLS MANY.
Bishop Wigger's jurisdiction extends,
according 10 the latest accounts, to 19i
priests, of whom 60 are members of the
regular orders His churches number 100,
with Is stations and chapels, and there are
In his see seminary, 2 colleges. IS acad-
emies, IS parochial schools, attended by
about 25 GOO pupils, 20 charitable institu-
tions and a Catholic population of
16S.Q00. The regular clergy in the do
cese are the Jesuites. Benedictines,
Dominicans, PassionlSus, Franciscans
Carmeiites and Fathers of Mercy, q list
which few sees can equal The Jesuits
have an admirable college, st. Peters, in
this city; the Benedictines have an alb
hey, st. Mary's, at Newark; the Passion
lists are located at West Hoboken; the
Dominicans are in Newark; the Francis
cans Conventuals at Hoboken, and RecOl-
lects at West Paterson; the Capuchins at
Fort Lee; the Carmelites at Englewood,
and the Mercy Fathers at Paterson. The
Christian Brothers have schools at New
ark, Jersey City, West Hoboken and Pat
erson, and of the religious female orders
there are Sisters of Charity, Notre Dame,
Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans,
Sisters of st. Joseph. Good Shepherds,
Christian Charity, Sisters of the Poor and
Sisters of Peace.
most tiourishing Catholic educational in
stitutions in the country, is located at
South Orange, and there too is the Do
cesar Seminary. The Benedictines con-
duct college at Newark, ana the sew
eral other orders have scholasticates
attached to their monasteries and abbeys,
or at least the greater part OF them have
such institutions. The members of the
various sisterhoods are either employed
in teaching in the parish schools, of
which the Newark diocese has very
large number, or else in managing the
many charitable and religious institu-
tions in the see
WELL EQUIPPED DIOCESE.
There are. in fact, few dloceses that are
as well equipped as the Newark see in all
things necessary for or conducive to the
welfare Of the people, and the credit of the
diocesan completeness and prosperity is
in large part due to the fatherly care and
interest which Bishop Wiqger takes in
all movements calculated to benefit his
people
1t has been rumored within the last two
weeks that Bishop Wigger's name is one
OF the three sent to Rome from which the
Pope will select the successor to the late
Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee. This
has been denied, or at least not looked
upon as authentic, but it is nevertheless
fact. and if the Pope selects him his
friends and people will be sorry to have
him depart, but they will be gratified to
see such great honor conferred on their
beloved Bishop.
Apropos OF Bishop Wigger being APP
pointed Archbishop Of Milwaukee, 1t may
be remarked that his predecessors have
both been appointed Archbishops. Bishop
Bayley was appointed Archbishop or
Baltimore and Bishop Corrigan Arch
bishop of New York.
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