New-York tribune., 1902-08-31
MONSIGNOR G. Fl. DOANE.
CAREER Or THE NEWARK PRELATE,
WHO HAS BEEN A PRIEST FOR
FORTY-FIVE YEARS

On Friday of this week Monsgnor George Ho-
bart Doane, of Newark will celebrate his seventy
second birthday and the forty-hfth anniversary
of his ordination to the Roman Catnohc priest
hood.
Monsignor Doane is the eldest of the late
Right Rev. George Washington Doane. the second
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New-Jersey a
man noted for his scholarly attachments, ana
brother of the Right Rev. William G Doane
Episcopal Bishop of Albany. He was born in Bos-
ton on September g. 1880, in the rectory of Trinity
Church. of which his father was then rector In
1852 he graduated from Jefferson Medical Col
lege. in Philadelphia, but, having decided TO enter
the ministry, he practised medicine. After
taking course in theology he was ordained
deacon in the Episcopal Church, and became an
assistant in Grace Church, Newark. Not long
afterward he embraced the Roman Catholic faith,
and was educated for the priesthood at the Col
lege of ST. Supice, Paris, and the Coegio Pic, in
Rome. In 1857 he ordained a priest in st.
Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, and immediate
ly created curate in the parish and secretary TO
Bishop Bayley of that diocese. The latter
pointed Father Doane rector of the cathedral, and
afterward he became chancellor of the diocese.
When Bishop Bayey made Archbishop of
Baltimore and Primate of America, Father Doane
was elevated to the vicar generalship by Bishop
Gorrgan. In March, 1880 ne was appointed do
mestic prelate of the Papal household with the
title of monsignor. This in recognition of his
many important services and for his untiring
ergies in raising money to endow the American
College in Rome The occasion of his investiture
with the insignia of his new Office made
memorable one by his parishioners, Bishop Cor
rigan performing the ceremony.
= W hen E5ishop Corrlgan was elevated to the arch
bishopric, and made coadjutor Cardinal
McCloskey, Monsgnor Doane became administrator
of the Newark diocese and became Vicar General
In 1890 he visited Rome and while there hon.
ored by the Pope with the office of Prothonotary
Apostolic. the highest degree in the monSignori
This gave him greater honors than he pre-
viously enjoyed, and entitled him TO the
bishops purple. a pectoral cross, ring and
mitre while saying He invested with
the insignia of this high office in St Patrick's
Cathedral shortly after his return from Rome
This was most interesting occasion. not only to
the Catholics In his parish and throughout the city,
but to his multitude of friends outside of the
church.
The Monsignor has devoted his life to the further
ance of charitable work of every description, not
conining himself solely to those pertaining his
chosen church. He has always been a substantial
supporter of every important charity in Newark,
among which is the Bureau of Associated Chari-
ties and instrumental in founding many of
the institutions in that city devoted to the OF
the poor. the orphan and aged of the Roman Cath
olic faith In the matter of spreading education
among his people he has always been foremost,
especially as related TO the parishioners of st.
Patrick S, and it mainly through his efforts
that the commodous parochial school buildings in
that parish were erected and are maintained in a
manner second none in the country
Several years ago he paid off the debt of ST Pat
rick's Church. and raised the money to restore