The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-01
BILLINGS EMBRACED in NEW
CATHOLIC elsHoPRlc.
MONTANA MADE TWO SEES
Bishops Named for Both-PersonaI
Sketch Of Head Of New
Subdivision.

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Washington, the wish of the late Bish-
OPP Brondel is to be carried out, al
though he did not live long enough to
see it's rehabilitation. The apostolic
delegate has been informed in a briet
from Rome that Montana has been
erected into two d%ioceses Of the Cath
Ole church, one to have it's seat at
Great Falls and the other at Helena.
The Reverend James T. Cleary OF
Minneapolis has been appointed bish-
OPP Of the Helena see and the Reverend
M. Linehan of the archdiocese of Du-
buque, Ia, will be bishop of the Great
Falls ee. The action taken by the
propaganda at the worlds seat OF
Catholicism creates two bishoprics in
the state. The see of Helena previous
to this order had jurisdiction over the
whole of Montana.
The counties of Cascade, Chouteau,
Flathead, Teton, Fergus, Valley, Vel
lowstone, Dawson, Custer, Park, Rose
bud, Sweet Grass and a portion OF
Meagher will be embraced in the new
diocese and the rest of the state will
be in the diocese OF Helena. 1t is
known that Bishop Brondel strongly
favored partition of the state, as has
now been decided upon, with the seat
OF the new diocese either at Billings
Or Great Falls. Which of those two
cities, if either, he preferred has never
been learned.
OF course, Great Falls is highly
elated at the honor given it and will
no doubt respond generously at the
proper time to show it's appreciation.
Soon after the installation of Bishop
Linehan a cathedral and a bishops
palace will be erected. 1t is also said
that extensive additions to the Column
bus hospital, already planned, are to
be soon commenced, and that the
Ursuline nuns will, within a year
build large school buildings upon the
lots they now own there.
The New Bishop.
AS the people <hereabouts of the
new diocese are naturally interested
in knowing something about the man
who is to be at the head of the spirit
ual affairs of their see, the following
dispatch from Dubuque, where the
gentleman was born, is reprinted:
Dean Linehan, who has been cho-
sen to be bishop OF the newly-erected
diocese of Great Falls, was born in
Dubuque in the year 1854, his parents
being among the pioneers of Dubuque,
Edmund and Mary Linehan, who came
to Dubuque, then little more than a
settlement, in the early fifties. He
first attended the Cathedral school
until he received his communion, af-
ter which he entered, as a charter
student, the college of st. Joseph,
when the institution first opened it's
doors through the efforts of Father
Downey.
The quiet, grave young student o
established an aptitude beyond his
years, and won recognition from his
instructors for his brilliancy and de-
votion to his calling. After gradua-
ton from the college the young man
entered the Montreal seminary, where
he studied his theology. On the last
vacation trip home before he received
his last course, the young aspirant
for the sacred Office Of the priesthood
was made the recipient of his first
orders from the hands of the late
Bishop Hennessy.
He was ordained at the Montreal
seminary Is years ago next December,
and from that time until the present
has been absolutely devoted to his
sacred calling, filling successfully the
various parishes of Lyons, Ia, for
several months; Vale, Ia, for seven
years, and the remaining II years at
Marshalltown.
Energetic and Enterprising.
The work of the priest in MARSHALL
town has been along a broad scale.
Through his efforts the present impos-
ing Catholic church has been erected,
the sisters home and the Grand Line
han Memorial hospital being just com
pleted at a cost of $4,000.
The new hospital erected to care for
the i'll and distressed, and which is a
worthy monument to the memory of
the late brother of Dean Linehan,
Bishop Thomas Linehan of Cheyenne.
Wyo., is a beautiful tribute to the
work of the man who has given up all
to follow the way marked out
for those who follow the footsteps Of
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