Kansas City daily journal., 1895-08-28
a WELL SPENT LIFE.
A short sketch of the Bishops Remarka-
Bile Career.


John j. Hogan was born May 10. 1929 in
the parish of Bruff, diocese of Limerick,
Ireland. At the age of he was sent to the
nelghboring village school OF Holy Cross.
At the age OF 10 he was placed under the
care o. n private tutor in his fathers house,
where 70. four years he devoted himself to
acquiring Latin, Greek and French. After
four years more spent in classical schools
Louis, Mo, to enter the theological SEM
mary, and at the close of the regular course
young priests first mission was Old Mines
where he spent a year and a half and was
then transferred to Potosi where he be-
in 1854 he was called to St. Louis, and be-
sides acting as assistant at ST.. John, ;
orphan asylum and contessor to the Sis
ters While thus engaged he was commits
Stoned to organize a new parish and erect
ed St. Mlchaels church. of which he be-
came rector, signalizng his pastorship by
at once commencing the erection of par
Northwest Missouri. a wide district of
country without altar or priest, required an
fully left the parish he had or ted to un-
dertake the difficulties and hardships of an
Wu9provided W district, The resolute energy
Sturgeon. Allen1now S Moberly1-Macon "a scty City.
Brookfield Chilllcothe and Cameron.
Shortly before the civil war he under
took TO establish a settlement In Southern
Mis- .OOrl on the borders or Arkansas but
was unsuccessful, the fiery tide of CON
tiicting armies having rolled too frequently
forward and backward over the peaceful la
borS of the ruined settlers.
The diocese of st. Louis had long. COM
was evident that by assigning a portion Of
the territory TO a local bishop, the inter-
ests of the church would be better sub
served. soon after the restoration Of peace
plans We're made for the erection OF a new
see, which was created by Pope Plus TX.
on the Srd Of March 1865 at St. JOSEPH, in
that portion of Missouri lying between the
river of that name and Charlton.
To this see Father Hogan was appointed,
receiving. episcopal conservation on the
Archblshop' Kenrlck, in st. Johns Church,
Risht Rev. John +. Miege and Right Rev.
great see of Chicago. The sermon on the
occasion was delivered by Right Rev. John
Hennessy.
The diocese included some of DR.. Ho-
sonally known. When he was Installed it
contained about 5000 Catholics with eleven
educationi had received a solid basis in the the
establishment of the Ladies Of the Sacred
Heart and the Christian Brothers at st.
Under the bishops impulse a new energy
was infused into the Catholic body; priests
churches rose the Benedictine Fathers
came to found an abbey at Conception
Nodaway county, and the, Francscans at
Benedpctine Nuns Sisters of 81. JoseGh
and Perpetual Alteration helped to carry
on the needed parochlal schools. BY 1850
tho Catholics of the diocese, consi siderably
increased in numbers had thirty churches
and twenty-siN priests,
on the 10th day of September, in that
~omprising that portion of the state south
{ the Missouri river and west of Moni-
eau, Miller, Camden, Laclede, Wright,
DouglaS and Ozark counties. The epis-
copa see was fixed at Kansas City and TO
IT Bishop Hogan was transferred, retain
ing the charge of his former diocese as ad-
This new diocese contained forty-tour
churches, thirty priests and some 12OOo
Catholics. The Sisters of st. Joseph opened
At Kansas city a convent, attending a hos
the meantlme. ChIlllcothe, Brookfeld. Sc
dalia. Upton, Independence, Conception and
Maryville all had schools.
Tho Redemptorist Fathers soon made
Kansas City the center OF their Western
missions, establishing here a novitIate and
preparatory college; the Bsnedictiue
priory at New Eneleberg became an abbey
with Right Rev, Frower Conrad as first ali
bot, \ hospital was established at Kansas
city orphan asylums here and at ST Ju-
seph. The Little Sisters Of the Poor opened
a house out in the south end of the city.
In May, IsS2, bishop Hogan laid the cor
nerstOne of the Cathedral Of the Immacu-
late Conception, on Eleventh and Broad
way This church was completed In the
Cornthian style of architecture and Is ca
pable Of seating 1000 people. BY 1854 the
two dioceses under the care of Bishop Ho-
gan had Catholic population of over 40
600 with seventy-hve churches and eighty
priests, and the latest census gives the
Kansas city diocese alone a Catholic popu-
lation Of 4l,6ii, with forty-ave churches,
siNty-SiN priests. tWenty-eight stations, nine
chanels, eight academies, one college, $50
pupils in colleges and academies, S,400 pupils
at parochlal schools, four hospitals one
orphan asylum one Magdalen asylum ana
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