The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-18
BISHOP-ELECT MESSMER
He Will Go Into Retreat in H0boken
and be Consecrated in Newark.
Special to the Jersey Citv News.


NEWARK, March 1S, 1892.-The details
of the arrangements for the conservation
of the Rev. DR.. Sebastian Gebhard Mess
mer as Bishop of Green Bay, Wis. which
will take place in ST. Peters Church, Bel
mont avenue, this city, on Sunday, the
9th, are about completed.
The services will take place in st.
Peter's Church in Belmont avenue at ten
o'clock in the morning of Sunday, March
81, and will be very elaborate. the cere-
mony occupying several hours. The al
tar will be brilliantly illuminated with
candles and adorned with flowers and
the sanctuary will also be decorated with
flowers. There will also be an altar pro-
vided for the Bishop-elect and his attend
Of of'S nish haa .order rs aTs The conseors. % Ds
tor will be Bishop Otto Zardetti, Of St.
Cloud, Minp., who will pc assisted by
Bishops Wigger of Newark, and Kane of
the Catholic University of Washington.
The Rev. J. j. O'Counor, one of the pro-
fessors of Seton Hall College, South
Orange, will be the master of ceremonies,
with the Rev. Father Lambert Of Hack
ensack, as assistant. The music will be
rendered by the choir of st. Peters
Church. assisted by the Palestrina So
ciety of New York. There will be between
SILKY dUu seventy 6lHR6TS III iii. Inc
choral chant will be rendered by q choir
of twenty-five boys
The preacher will be the Right Rev.
Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, former
resident of Newark. The Bishop-elect
will be attended by his brother, the Rev.
Gabriel Messmer of Detroit, and the Rev
Joseph Mahl of Jersey City. Archbishop
Corrigan of New YORK and Bishop O'Far-
rell of Trenton will be present, as will be
the following Monsignors:-Doane. De-
Concilllo, schroeder and Mcdonald of
New York, the Bishop-elect of Brooklyn.
In addition to these, there will be a large
concourse of priests from this and other
cities. including Dominican monks in
their habits OF white. Beneoictines in
black, Franciscans IN gray, and other
orders, as we'll as many secular priests.
The services will be followed by ban
quet in Saenger Hall.
The Blshop-e elect will be the recipient
of many beautiful gifts suited to his new
office.
The episcopal ring, which will be very
handsome, will be the gift OF Cardinal
Gibbons, who is a warm friend of DIR.
Messmer. The pectoral cross will be the
gift of Mrs. l.. BenZigger, of Staten
Island; the Sisters OF Notre Dame at
tached to st. Peters Church will give
him handsome royal purple cassock of
silk. John Kuser and his brothers will
give him The croZier. and the mitre will
be the gift or the professors of the the
illogical faculty of the Catholic Univer-
sity of America at Washington. 1t will
be a very handsome affair, elaborately
embroidered and set with precious
stones.
Bishop-elect Messmer was seen at St.
Peters rectory, IN Belmont avenue, this
morning by reporter. He said that he
will go into retreat In the Passionist
Monastery in Hoboken on Sunday next
and remain there till the 27th, when he
will be consecrated. After his consecra-
tion he will remain in Newark q week
taking leave of his friends, preaching
in St. Peters Church on the
evening of Friday, April l, and
celebrating his first Pontifical High
Mass on Sunday, April 3. On the
following Monday he will start for Green
Bay He will spend one day in Milwau-
kee with Archbishop KatZer and will
reach Green Bay on Thursday, April z.
He added that in his diocese are 1l2
priests, many parochial schools. in charge
of the Sisters of Notre Dame, a Catholic
population of 10000 and 11.00o children
in the Catholic schools.
DR.. Sebastian Gebhard Messmer was
born in Switzerland in 1847. He was edu-
Gated and ordained at Innsbruck, Austria.
pointed professor of theology at seton
1889. Since then he has been professor of
canon law in the Catholic College at
Washington. When he was appointed
Bishop of Green Bay, Wis, on Novem ber
20. last, he declined the homer, but was
commanded by the Pope to take the
office His conservation will be the third
that has taken place at Newark.