Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-02
CITHOLICTSM IN AMERICA.
Recent Satisfies Regarding the Catholic
Population.

Recent Satisfies Regarding the Catholic
Population.
Hofrman's Catholic Directory for 1890
gives the satisfies of the Catholic church
in the United States The figures have
been furnished by the diocesan chancel-
lors. The catholic population is esti-
mated at s,80l, 367, aud the number Of
priests is placed at S, 463-2, 1875 regulars
and 1887 seculars. They attend 1920
churces. 2,7lS stations and $50 chapels.
There are 203 orphan asylums, caring
for, it is estimated, %, 76l orphans. There
are thirty theological seminaries, with
1881 students, 125 colleges and 632 acad-
emies, and 3, 200 parochial schools, with
654, 1888 pupils. Chicago has the largest
number of pupils i'll its parochial schools
-43, ,000-more than twice as many, pro-
portionately to population, as New York.
Brooklyn has the largest number of Or
phans, excepting Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia, each of these exceeding it
by one, but Brooklyn, in its nine orphan
asylums, cares for nearly as many or
phans as these archdiocese, the number
being 1889.
There are thirteen archdiocese in the
United States, with sixtysix sutfragan
sees, five vicariates apostolic and one
prefecture apostolic. These are gov
erned by thirteen archbshops and
seventy bishops, few of the latter
being coadjutors, who, with the Wears,
have titular sees in infidel countries
The general statistics of the Catholic
church in the United States compared
with the figures given in the directory
for 1899 show the following increase
Population, 3,691; priests, 34j;
churches, sixty-seven; chapels, fifty nine;
orphan asylums, three colleges, one
academies, eighty-three; parochical
schools, 4l0; pupils attending parochial
schools, 81, ,644
One hundred years ago, when the
Catholic hierarchy was established in
the United States, the Catholic popula-
tion of the country nmbered "A, 800. The
figures at that time were collected for
the holy see, and the division was an
nounCed as follow
There are in New England about 600;
New York and New Jersey, l, 700; Penn
sylvania and Delaware ZOO Mary land
freeman, 10000; slaves, S,000-2O 900;
at the Illinois, at Kaskaskis, and several
other establishments, purely French, on
the Mississippi, 10000.
The catholic population is divided
among the different sees at present as
follows: Province of Baltimore-Balti-
more, 100000 Charleston, s. c., 5000;
Richmond, $4,000; st. Augustine, l.
900; Savannah, 10000; Wheeling, 90
600; Wilmington Del, 5000; and vi
cariate of North Carolina, 5000. Prov
ince of Boston - Boston, 5l0, 900; Bur-
lington, 10000; Hartford, 200, 600; Man
chester, 10000: Portland, II, 100; Provi-
dence, 1880 and Springfield, 100000.
Province of Chicago-Chicago, AGO, 900;
Alton, $4,000; Belleville, $4,000, and
Peoria, 100,0 ,000 Province of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, 1S9, 500; Cleveland 25O, 900;
Columbus $4,000 Covington, $4,000;
Detroit, 1875. 600; Fort Wayne, 1000;
Grand Rapids, 1000; Louisville, 1885,
600; Nashville, $4,000, and Vincennes,
Sc, 1888. Province of Milwaukee - Mil
waukee, 10S, 600; Green Bay, 100, 600;
La Crosse, 1000, and Marquette, 40, 600.
Province of New Orleans-New Orleans,
10000; Galveston, Al 900 Little Rock,
5000: Mobile, 10000 Natchez, 1887;
Natchitoches, 35, 600 San Antonia, 59,-
900; vicariate of Brownsville, $4,000,
and prefecture apostolic of Indian terri
tory, 5000. Province of New York -
New York, 100000; Albany, $1,000;
Brooklyn, 10000; Buffalo, 1872, 500;
Newark, 10000; Ogdensburg, 65, 1906;
Rochester, n, 900 Syracuse, 100, and
Trenton $1,000. Province of Oregon -
Oregon, 17,000 Helena, $4,000; Nes-
qually, 10000; Vancouver's Island, L.
500, and vicariate of Idaho, 7,100. Pro-
vince of Philadelphia - Philadelphia,
100000; Erie, 10000; Harrisburgh, &c.
420; Pittsburgh, 10000, and Scranton,
o., 900. Province of st. Louis-St. Louis
2sO,O0O; Cheyenne, 2,100; Concordia,
Kansas, 14,500; Davenport, 25, 600; Du-
buque, 100000 Kansas City, "a, 43l st.
Joseph, 1851 Leavenworth 10000;
Lincoln, 10000; Omaha, $4,000, and
Wichita, 5000. Province of st. Paul
st. Paul, 225, 900; Duluth, "a, 500; James
town 80, 900 st. Cloud, 10000; Sioux
Falls, $4,000. The population of the
archdiocese of st. Paul includes that Of
the new diocese of Winona and seperate
figures are not given in the directory for
the latter. Province of San Francisco
San Francisco, 100000; Monterey and
Los Angeles, 1000; Sacramento. $4,000,
and vicariate of Utah, $500. Province
of Santa Fe-Santa Fe, 12S,OOO; Den