The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-22
NEW BISHOPS CHOSEN.
The Pope Surprises the Southern
Clergy by His Selections.

BALTIMORE, Jan. %, 1S97-A spec al
| telegram from Rome states that the
Pope has selected the Very Rev. Felix
Hintemeyer. of the Be1iedictine order
Vicar-General of the yicariate-Apos tolic
of North Carolina, to be Bishop of vii
mington, Del. as the successor of Bishop
Alfred A. Curtis, who last year forward
ed his resignation to Rome
1t is also stated that the Very Rev.
Edward R. Allen, D. D., President of st
Mary's Seminary and College at Emmets
burg, Nd. has been selected by the
Pope to be Bishop of Mobile as success
Sor S9 70 Bishop e, Jeremiah Sullivan. wno
The appointment of Father Hintemeyer
Was enurely unexpected, and therefore a
great surprise to the clergy of the Prov
iieyed that Rev. G. F. Thomas. Rector Of
the Baltimore Cathedral would be named
70 1e,s succeed e ed Bishop Curtis. The B.snop
resume pastoral duties and it was
thought that the elevation of Father
Thomas would easily accomplish this
Father Thomas was one of three candi-
oates recommended to the Pope by the
blsneps of the province, of which Balti-
more n1s. ls the metropolitan head, and Father
H1nlemeyer's name was not on the list.
It is stated that the Propaganda in Sc
lect1ng the successful priest for the Papal
nomination very rarely Ignores the names
suggested by the diocesan priests or the
BISHOPS Of the province. This caused the
statement OF the appointment of Father
feIlx Hintemeyer to be received with
surprise.
The new Bishop of Wilmington is a monk
OF the Benedictine Order which is mainly
composed of natives of Germany and
switzerland. The order has entered largely
INTO r the missionary work cf the Catholic
Church in North Carolina within the past
nfteen years. The Vicar-Apostolic, Bishop
Leo Had, is a prominent member of the
order IN this country. His residence is at
Gn me Abbey Of st. Mary-Help at Belmont,
the mitred abbot Father Hintemeyer as
been one of his chief assistants being
within the past eight years prior of the
aDpey, professor Of theology and plllo-
sophy there, pastor of the abbey church.
secretary and chancellor of the Vicar.ate
apostolic and one of the Bishops consult
1t is stated that the appointment of
Father Hintemeyer to the Bishopric of
wilmington will give general satisfaction
to the large element of German Catholics
in the church of the United States.
Rev. DR.. Aliens selection to the Rishon-
re OF Mobile was not unexpected, as he
was the most prominent of the three
priests who were selected by the clergy
Of Mobile diocese and indorsed by the
Bishops of the province of New Orleans.
of which the diocese of Mobile forms a
part. Rev; Francis Y. Nugent, of New
Louis, were the other two
Father Allen is about forty-f1ve years
Gated at Mt. ST. Mary's and was Or
dained about twenty years ago in the
diocese of Boston For several years he
served missions in various parts of Mas
sachusetts. When Very Rev. William
Byrne resigned from the presidency of
Mt st. Mary's, about ten years ago, to
become Vicar General of Boston, Father
Allen succeeded him. His administration
at Mt. St. Marys has been remarkably
successful. Several years ago Georgetown
University gave him the degree of Doctor.