New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

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Tna Roman Catholic the first Christian worship
,an,,nea in the territory now constituting tn' OY1u
s.a,as As early as 1872 only t"ehN s0do -
,''"o,.rr Of America by Columbus spanish priests
oisoo'el' ,on tour in Florida and the Mississippi
poeau ~ tho same century the native tribes OF the
' crorde in the territory now known as Nc"
>x6o were converted by spanish priests ii o'i ~
,rh catholic population in the archdloCeSe VI SUI"
ho-e,ora said 10 be the oldest body OF Ca'nol0s ~
- Int,od s,ates French priests established mission
On Nonnt Desert Island of the coast oi NAM -
1910 and there were other beginnings IN u"eren' p'
of the country. - ,.or,,ces which
r1 church s divided into thirteen provinces "inoii
,rclude thirteen archdiocese, six'y-sA uiO'e'e' ~
vicsyiates apostolic and one prefecture apOs'o
has 10 oo1 congregations, of which l4oS meet ~ nan
schoolhouses and private houses IL o"i,'
80 ~ Worship including cathedrais chuVheS anu
mus, - Ot the whole number Of COMMITMENTS
on few more than Onehaf are iouho III Vno
&C. states of New-York Massachusetts, fehhsS 'aA"'
Illinois and ONO ,o,oarts or NOM
In respect 10 the number OF communicates Vi mn
hers II should be noted that the census returns w
,no,ude hantzed children under nine years OF age
which are estimated by some ecclcslaSuoal du'Noii
\, o,oasc ahout Is per cent Of the total NUMBER VI
,.,,od rersons in the Church-all OF whom are III
$3.50 r The statistics published by the Church Hsen'
y, order N secure uniformity in the church sta'su0s
of the census olly the number OF commune" "a ~
Woman Catholic Church has been Included
The seating capacity of the church edinoes anu "l
4, rnorted at 3735 702. In order that proper siehn
- - 10 c;von "a these figures, IL should be con
$3.50 ,b. In populous places from three to four anu
.ir,es six or seven services. or even more, are he"
On the same church sunday, ana tia' Sep"Ia.o SO
vices ~ the mass in Catholic churches arc usually "
,anded by different audiences mus IN lie a.
go ~ noston there are services in the cathedral
MON
rororts $500 seating capacity. Archbishop Ooiis""
:. Nar yorl, saws the same space Is used oNer anu
over again by different woIsmppers al ui'erehV h0u
An examination of the returns for tiat see SNOW '
>, v.ntvseven churches In the city of New-l orK ono
has one service of the mass, SIX nave Wo seINe00'
four have three, twelve have four seventeen navy
,uentvtwo have SIX ten have seven, three nave eis'
80 hos Mine and one has ten every sunday. OF an
.oua number of churches in the rural part OF the arc
oiocese twenty-sx have one mass, twehty-iour h"No
two masses eleven have three four have siA' anu ono
has five every sunday four have mass twice a month";
and five have it once month The use mace Oh tnc
seating accommodations is also indicated BY inc nun,
her of communicates belonging to a parish. In inc
diocese of Buffalo there is parish consisths en"''
of Poles which has II 400 commandments VIM arc a'
oommodated in a single church with sea'hs o"P''i'
Of 1000. Here the proportion OF communicates !"
eating capacity is about 10 /; IN the arouio0e7 Va
baltimore Boston and Chicago the average Is oso ua
an I. in New-York more than 10 l-4o-oao ~
14s ao3 in Orleans nearly TO In Philadelphia
st Paul san Francisco and Oregon up"aru VI " ,
in Cincinnati and Milwaukee less IMAM = ana III o
To a. &c less than l. of the parishes Wlch nave
mo church edifces, but temporarily such accohmo
datons as private houses can afford are very large
ors ~ these parishes reports no fewer than 14,oOo
COMMITMENTS. -,
sioceses of NcwOrlears. Philadelphia and san Fran
cisco every organization has its own church edlhce
N.,1r cpro1-
,nu,dcants has church property valued at nearly
no 600 600: that of Chicago. with 326640 communi-
cants and with property worth $6457 064, stands
ond l.: Boston, with total of 4l0,66O communicates,
stands third as 10 property. with total OF S6370o78
Rrooklvn with 225,7s5 communicates, has property
yo,ued at S5751 ,907, and Newark with l62,S02 com
n,,nicants owns property valued at S42o7,452 These
FIVE sees h. We than one fourth oil the ehure Vaua
fion OF the Church, which is Sllo,3ol'olo Pmlaael
ho With o51162 communicates holds church prop
ert valued al So 358, 00O ST. Paul, with 2O54o4 com
mnnicants. has S2474,435 in church property, anC
Raltimore with 1872 507 communicates, owns properly
valued at S3,41o,12O -,
There are twenty-five secs winch nave inoi0 '
100 900 communicates each.
In .hs ta,piat n, nv states the following facts ap
near. In New-York with dioceses, ther
are 959 church organizations with total OF lloo'i'
communicates, and property valued'at $2o'oo4'0 !"
Massachusetts there are two doceses' ool VI sd'n~'
tons, 614,6 27 commandments, ana properly Ndi"0u {"
sos16OO3; in Pennsylvania, five dioceses' oo4 organ
izations. 55l577 communicates and property worth
slOO6s TO- in Illinois, with four dioceses' theie are
e56 organizations, 473324 communicates ana property
valued at 946S19 in Ohio there are three dlocescS
$50 organizations, 336,114 COMMITMENTS ana
81 3s5 $40 worth of church property In these hV'
States there are 3,12S,772 communicates, or htle
more than onehaf of the total for the whole Church
and the value of church property Is S62ooo''lV' o
considerably more than one half of the total VALUATION
North Carolina stands at the foot OF the list OF STATES
with sixty organizations twentyfour church eoihces
o64O commandments, and church property Valued a.
s002G2.
The Roman Catholic Is polyglot Church' Ooh'
LESSONS are heard among other languages besides ENG
lsh in German Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian 30
hemian French. spanish and Italian. In the Diocese
Of Scranton there seven Polish, seven GERMAN lo
Hungarian one Lithuanian one Polish and Lithuanian
and one Italian, besides English congregations. inc
statistics for the of NewYork by docses, aside
from New-York City, are as follows:
O,oaui. Communi-
DIoces & zato s. EiHces. Value cants.
Lob S3I64,7O0 I30,COJ