The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-14
TO INSTALL GARRIGAN !.
Elaborate Welcome, for the New
Sioux City Bishop.

Elaborate welcome for the New
Sioux City Bishop.
SIOUX FALLS. IOWA -. Next We'd
nesday, June Is, the Rt. Rev DR.. P.
j. Garrigan of Washington, D. c. will be
installed as bishop of the new Catholic
diocese Of Sioux City. in ceremonies par
ticipated in by all the priests Of the see,
and, in impressiveness, consistent with the
dignity of the OCCASION" -
DR.. Garrigan will arrive in Sioux City
Wednesday morning from Springfield,
Mass. where he was consecrated for the
bishopric, with elaborate exercises, May
25. A special train will run from Sioux
City to LeMars, carrying prominent clergy
of the diocese and many citizens of Sioux
City, to meet the bishop and welcome him
to his new home.
He will be met at the station here by
clergy and citizens who will escort him
by a circuitous route to St. Mary's church.
j. S. Lynch, St. eMary's; M. McDermott,
St. Joseph's; A. Braunger, ST. Boniface;
A.. ]. Granger, St. Jean Baptists, will be
marshals of the day, and, with M. Joesten,
St. Jean Baptiste, secretary and treas
urer, and with the priests of the city,
Fathers P. ]. OConnor, St.. Joseph's; j. .
A.. Gerleman, St. Boniface; L. P. Dag
nault, St. Jean Baptiste, and Edward
Masteron, St. Mary's, will constitute the
committee in charge. .-s--.,-c- $50 s.
Rev. John Smith, Of Emmetsburg, Iowa.
the oldest priest in the diocese in point
of service, will be dignior ex clero and
the other officers will be Rev. Fathers F..
J. Farrelly, Sheldon, and J. Kuemper,
Carroll, chaplains to the bishop; Very Rev.
P. Burke, Fort Dodge, and Rev. j..
Schultz, Remsen, chaplains to Archbishop
Keane; Rev. E. Heelan, Fort Dodge, mas
ter of ceremonies; Rev. S. Butler, Gilmore
City, cross bearer; Revs. NJ Bradley, Fort
Dodge, and A. Schaeffer, LeMars, acolytes !;
Rev. L.. Cooper. Charter Oak, thurifer;
Rev. F. J. Bruno, Alton, notary; Very Rev.
B. c. Lenihan, Boone, speaker. 2-
When Bishop Garrigan arrives at St..
Mary's church, the cathedral, he will re-
ceive the keys of the church from Arch
bishop Keane of Dubuque, Iowa. In the
ceremonies of installation which will fol-
low in St.. Mary's, Father B. C. Lenihan
of Boone will deliver the address of well
come in behalf of the priests of the dio-
cese, and Bishop, Garrigan will respond. A
banquet will be served, after the cere-
monies, in St. Mary's school hall, by the
Catholic churches, for the bishop, priests
and other distinguished guests. Within
the week DR.. Garrigan will be banqueted
by the Sioux City Commercial Club.
The Catholics of western Iowa have
long been clamoring for a diocese of their
own When Archbishop Hennessy of Du-
buque died, and was succeeded by Arch
bishop Keane, the new diocese was RECON-
mended and a papal order followed soon.
The new diocese is 105 by 130 miles, and
includes twenty-four counties, Lyon, Os-
ceola, Dickinson, Emmet, .Kossuth, Palo
Alto, Clay, Sioux, O'Brien, Plymouth,
Cherokee, Pocahontas, Buena Vista, Hum
boldt, Webster, Calhoun, Sac, Ida, Wood
bury, Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Greene
! and Boone. In the diocese are SO priests
7o11J nhac with rnc ~ ocfe ,3e,
sions, "a stations, SO schools, 165 teachers
$500 pupils and $4,000. Catholics. When
St.. Mary's church was elevated to D., a
| cathedral, Dean T. Treacy, pastor tllir-
teen years, was transferred to Carroll and
DR.. Garrigan will have charge of the
| parish. st. Mary's church and school
were originally designed at cost of about
| s100,000 the church has not been com
pleted, having been used in an unfinished
condition eight years. 1t will now be
| completed. ..... ~. =.
DR.. Garrigan is large in physique, i'm
pressive in manner, gracious and kindly
| For fourteen years he has been asso-
ciated with the Catholic university al
Washington as vice rector, and, occupying
a central position between the academic
| financial and executive departments Of
university activity he has been pecu.
| liarly fitted for the manifold duties of a
bishopric. DR.. Garrigan represents more
than his university experience, however
| When he was made vice rector in 1888, he
had been thirteen years in the practica
ministry as priest in Fitchburg, Mass. Al
curate and as pastor he lived through
the constructive period Of church histor,
in that section He met and. solved the
problems in the upbuilding and creating
of great parishes in cities where growth
has revolutionized religion AS young
man., just ordained, be was one of the
superiors of Troy seminary, where he
studied for the ministry, Ill.,. -,.-......5
So it happened that when, in June, 1901
Rome asked for three names from which
to select a bishop for the new see the
names of Bishop Lenihan of Cheyenne
Wis, lately deceased; Father J. NJ Cleary
of Minneapolis, and DR.. Garrigan were Sc.
lected by the bishops of the province anc
forwarded. 1t has been reported tha
Bishop Lenihan was named, but that he
died before the papal briefs reached
America: Dispatches from Rome last Jan
uary stated definitely that DR.. Garrigar
had been chosen, and the official an.
nouncement Of his appointment was mad,
at Rome last Monday. s.