The Irish standard., 1895-07-13
WEALTH OF lR|C'HBlSH0PS R ! ! ! / 1 J
Very Limited Resources Of Nearly
All the Great American
Prelates Il.
At the Present Time There Are
Fourteen r1etropoiitans in
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The United states.

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eral, and So Are His Donations
/. in Charitable Way.
!. The transfer of the authority de facto
and de jure Of the metropolitan See OF
s. hHt Louis from Archbishop Peter Rich
ard Kenrick to his coadiutor, Archbish-
op John ]. Kain, has, says the New York M
Herald, occasioned the publication Of
many misleading and erroneous state
.Sments concerning the two prelates and
their relations to the temporalities and
che spiritual jurisdiction. Of the charge.
"A metropolitan is a bishop who pre-
sides over the chief city Of an ecclesias-
tical province. Every metropolitan is
an archbishop, but every archbishop Is
not a metropolitan The former are
Il ose who have suffragan bishops, the
laster may not have any at all. In the
United States there are now ID metro
;poiitans-the Archbishops of Baltimore,
Bosten, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dubuque,
Muwaukee. New Orleans; New York,
Oregon, Philadelphia ST. Louis, st. Paul,
San Francisco and Santa Fe. In addi-
tien there are four other arch bishop
Mgr. Satolli, Archbishop Grace, who re-
signed the see Of st. Paul and lives there
as one Of Archbishop Ireland's Wears;
Archbishop salpointe, who resigned the
SEQ Of Santa Fe, and Arch bishop Ken
rick, who has Just been relieved Of the
Che9ge of the st. Louis province.
JURISDICTION OF THE METROPOL-
ITAN.
Formerly the Jurisdiction Of the met
rcpolitans over their suffragans was al
most absolute. Now 1t Is almost nil.
They can convoke provincial councils or
urge delinquent bishop to conform to
the duties Of his office. They can en-
stertain an appeal Of q subject Of one Of
their suffragan bishops, or when q suf~
frakan neg1ects to comply with the du-
ri apl his office the lnetropoI Ifan may
remedy the negligence OF his suffragan;
This. Of course, is only in very grave
dabes. Il. the suffragan dies or is inca-
patitated without naming a temporary
administrators for the diocese the metro
poIitan appoints that official. The per-
'manent manag cement, though, must come
from Rome. Every bishop is practic-
ally supreme In his own diocese. He
does not share with the archbishop the
authority over It's spiritual or temporal
affairs Archbishop Corrigan has no
voice or direct control In the affairstof
Brooklyn, Newark, Trenton, Albany or
any Of his tsuffragan sees, unless the
bishop thereof neglects his duties.
The Pope alone can appoint q bishop.
III certain cases -fot,. instance, If the sdio-
s cese is q great distance from ROme--a q
bishop who through age Or tnfirnSity is
unable to perform his duties may select
q temporary coad1itor with the advice
and consent OF his chapter. In case OF
the insanity OF the bishop the chapter
itself by q two-thirds vote may name
such aco-adjutor. but report must be
made to Rome as speedily as possible.
! This was the canon law made and pro-
vided In the olden time, when there was
no cable to annihilate space and time.
Now there are few lands SO remote from
the Vatican as to warrant such q. course,
Coadjutors are appointed on account
Of any chronic and incurable bodily dis
ease making 1t impossible for the bishop
s. of the see to perform his duties, as, for
instance, loss Of speech. blindness, par
alysis and the like, old age, insanity,
continued and dagrant neglect OF duty.
Removals are made for the same causes.
Coad5utors assigned to an insane bishop
take complete administration OF the di-
4 fceea In temnorai as well as antritua1