Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-12-07
BISHOP CHAPELLE.


south of France, and was only II years
old when he came to this country. He
accompanied one of his uncles, who was
a missionary ia Hayti Shortly after his
arrival here DR.. Chapelle entered st.
Mary's seminary and made his full thee.
logical and philosophical course in that
famous old institution. While he was
seminarian DR.. Chapelle's uncle died, and
the.young student was affiliated with the
archdiocese of Baltimore. When he had
completed his course he was still too young
to be ordained, 30 he taught for two
years in st. Charles college. At the end
of that period in 1865, he was ordained as
priest, and then put in charge of the
missions in Montgomery county. While
there he passed, with much success, his
examination for the degree OF doctor in
theology, which was conferred on him by
st. Mary's, Baltimore, in 1868. In 1870
he was made assistant to Monslgnor Ber-
nard j McManus, pastor of st. Johns
church, of Baltimore, and soon after
became pastor of St. Joseph's church,
also of Baltimore. At the death of Rev.
DR.. Boyle, pastoriot St. Matthew's church,
of Washington, which occurred in 1882,
DR. Chapelle was appointed to that charge,
where he has remained ever since.
In 1872 DR.. Chapelle was appointed
president of the Theological conferences,
held every three months in Baltimore,
and continued in that office until 1855,
when Bishop O'Sullivan, who was presi-
dent over tie same conferences for the
district of Columbia, was consecrated
bishop of Mobile. At that time DR..
Chapelle was elected president of the
Washington conference. In 1884 he was
appointed ecclesiastical superior of the
Visitation Nuns, OF Park street, Baltl-
more. and still holds that Office. In 1882
he was appointed superior of the Vista
ton Nuns. OF Georgetown, and lately of
the same order in Washington. For the
last five years be has been vice president
of the Indian bureau in Washington, and
" hen the Cath )lic university was organ
lied he was elected member OF the buard,
con posed of the cardinal, archbishops,
bishops, and prominent priests and lay
men OF the church. He has taken an
active part in the success of that institu-
ton, and at the request of its rector,
Bishop keane, he recently gave series
OF public lectures at the university on
1.-The Writings and Influence of the
Fathers OF The Church." which were
largely attended, and were successful.
lie is regarded as one OF the foremost
theoogians of the church, and was one of
the board convened by Cardinal Gibbons
to prepare the DEGREES of the last plenary
council. He was also secretary of one OF
the most important committees of the
council.
ARCHBISHOP RIoRDAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO.
The Most Reverend Patrick w. Rlor-
dan, D. D., was pastor of st.. James
church, Wabash avenue, Chicago, when
the late Archbishop Alemany, San Fran
CISCO, asked and obtained him for his
coadiutor. He received the Episcopal
conservation in the cathedral of Chi.
cago, September 16, 1883, and succeeded
Archbishop Alemary, December 20, 1884.
Archbishop Riordan is about 50 years Of
aye; a man OF great intellectual refine
ment, having made his ecclesiastical
corrse of studies in the famous university
of Lowaln and in Rome, where he took
with high honors his degree of doctor in
divinity. As the works of man are his
best praise, Archbishop Riordan's labors
in the church, both as priest and as a
prelate, commend him to the utmost ;
through his zeal and indomitable energy,
the parish of St. James, in Chicago, when
he left it, was one OF the best organized
in that large city, and the diocese Of San
Francisco, who glories to have him at
his head, shows now record OF eight
fnr mir e..
young ladies', sixty parociial schools, with
an attendance of Is, 900 pupils, seven in
dustrial schools, five orphanages, two
asylums and three hospitals. 49,
| BISHOP MATE. OF DENVER.
The Right Reverend N. Matt, of Den
yer, Colo, is AZ years of age. After a
course of very successful studies at st.
Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, o., he
came to Colorado and was successfully
pastor of Georgetown, Clear Creek coun.
ty, and of the church OF st. Ann, len
yer. Two years before he died, the late
sanity Bishop Machebouf, who had
founded the Catholic church in Colorado,
petitioned Rome to have him for his sue
cessor; the conservation of DR.. Matt as q
bishop took place in Denver October l,
1887, and at the death OF Bishop Mache-
bout, July 10, 1889, he succeeded him.
Bishop Matz speaks fuently six Ian
guages, English, German, French, Span
ish. Italian and Latin. Besides being an
elegant and pleasing orator, he is an ex-
tremely sociable gentleman, an earnest
missionary, a sound administrator and
watchful bishop. What he has done al.
ready, in only few years of personal
administration, for the Catholic church
in Colorado, is plainly wonder. Schools,
churches, academies, associations of all
kinds, monasteries and converts spring
forth in all parts of his large diocese, and
this is only beginning. Long life to
Bishop Matt.
BISHOP BoURGADE, OF TUCSON.
The Right Reverend P. Bourgade is the
immediate successor of Archbishop Sal
pointe on the see of Tucson, (Arizona).
He received the Episcopal conservation in
the cathedral of Santa Fe, May 1, 1885,
at the hands of the late Archbishop Lamy,
assisted by now Archbishop Salpointe,
and the late Bishop Machebouf, of
Denver, the three CONSIDERATIONS being the
pioneers of the Catholic church in New
Mexico since it's annexation. At the time
of his election to the bishoprlc, DR..
Bourgade was rector of the church of ST.
Vincent de Paul, Silver City, N. NJ, to
which charge he had been appointed
after fifteen years of continual and faith-
full labor in the hard missions of Arizona
He is about A years of age, a learned,
although an unpretending prelate,
thoroughly progressive in his views, and
whose resolution, coupled with polished
manners, is a sure guarantee Of continued
advance and prosperity for the church.
Bishop Bourgade having been both or
dained priest, and consecrated a bishop
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