The morning times., 1895-11-06
SIX YEARS OYER 4 CENTURY
To-day Is the Anniversary of the
Archdiocese Of Baltimore.
Long List of Noted Divine. Have Pre-.
sided Over Ii and Its Growth
Has Been Marvellous.

To-day is great event among the Cath
olics OF the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The
see was founded 100 years ago to-day
| by Pope Plus VI, who selected "A pastor
OF Montgomery county, Md, the Rev. John
Carroll, as it's first incumbent.
Father Carroll as an eX-Jesuit priest,
the Society or Jesus having been temper
arily suppressed by Pope Cement XIV. in
1878, latlyc OF lIIer MiTlturo, Prince
Georges county, Ma, " to Lad been APP
pointcd ecclesiastical superior OF the cleIgy
III ,he Unied States GuIng lTs4, with the
ute OF kiCar-6rIR rsl, and who received
conservation as Bisnop or Baltimore at
LuIH Crth JastIe, Eonuon, EHgIanu, August
10, 1890.
he as the founder OF Georgctow n Col
lege, in this city. and ruled The see OF
Baltimore until december 8, 1915, v hen
lie Qied at the advanced ugc OF so years.
In December, 1900, Rome gave him a
coadJutor, or assistant, in the person or
Rev. Leonard Neale, native OF Charles
county, Md, W 10 survived him Two years;
his death having occurred June 10, 1917;
and in April, leUS, the Diocese " as raised
to the rank of an A rel -bishopric, at hlch
time the four earliest divisions OF II We're
made New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and
Bardstown, tnow, Louisv!llel KY, being
declared its suffra gan sees, and their
orcinaries, Bishops Egan, Cheverus, and
Benedict Ilaget. Icing oonsecrated by Arch
bishop Carroll in Baltimore during October
and November, 1910.
The bishop appointed by Rome for New
York., Rev. Like Coreorner, OF the DOM
inican Order, died at Naples, Itlay, after
receiving conservation at Rome, and never
saw his sees, but his successor. Rev. John
Connolly, also d. miniCan, " rs soon ar
terw ards chosen, and is known as, in reality,
the first bishop ofthat Diocese.
The successors OF Archbishop Carroll
since 1918 have embraced Most Reys.
Leonard Neale, founder OF the Visitation
Nuns Convent, Georgetown, who died
June 16, 1917; Ambrose MarecheI,
native of Ingre, France, who died January
20, 1928; James Whitfield, OF Liverpool,
Eng, who died October 10. 1884; Samuel
Ecclestou, Of Chestertown, Nd, April %,
1881; Francis Patrick Kenrick, OF
Dublin, Ireland, July 8, 1868; Martin John
Spaldipg, OF Lebanon, KY, February Z,
1872, aud James Roosevelt Bayley, of
New York City, October 8, 1877.
The present cardinai-archbishop OF Bal
timore, James Gibbons, was appointed arch
bishop Bayleys assistant, or coadiutor.
in August, 1877. and succeeded him on
his death, October 3, 1877. He became
a cardinal June 80, 1886.
Among the twenty-seven religious orders
of men and women connected with the
archdiocese at tue present time, those
known as the Carmelite Nuns, the Vista
ton Nuns and the Sisters of Charity of En-
mettsburg take precedence, having been
founded in 1890, in 1899. and in 1908, re-
spectively. The latter order is probably
the best known among them, and members
of that community now conduct the lead
ing hospitals and asylums at the arch
diocese, foremost amoug which is Provi-
dence Hospital, Second and d streets south
east, in this city.
A present the leading members of this
order in Washington are Sisters Beatrice
Duffy, of Pittsburg. Pa; and Louise Carey
of New York City, the latter of whom
viii soon celebrate her eighteenth ami
versary at the institution.
In view of the fact that Washington has
receutly been made adiocese of theProtestant
Episcopal Church. the indications are that
when the next pleDary council at Baltimore
meets a similar division of the see of
Baltimore will be made, just as the arch
diocese was divided in lS66 by the severance
of the eastern shore counties after the
new see of Wilmington, Del, was con-
sUituted.
1t is believed that the date of the next
council is not remote, as eleven years have
elapsed since the last general council of
November, 1884. at which Archbishop (uow
CardinaD Gibbons presided.