The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-12-03
The Addition of So Many New Names Shows
What Great Change Has Taken
Place in Last Few Years.
No Pole, Italian or French Canadian Yet
Appointed, Notwithstanding Their
Great Numbers.

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dinal Gibbons is now 72, Archbishop
Ryan is 73. Archbishop Williams is
still older. He has asked for a coad-
jutor, and the vexed question, whether
he shall get Bishop Harkins, of Prov
idence, Bishop O'Connell, of Portland,
or some unmentioned outsider, does
not seem to have been settled as yet.
Archbishop Ireland's silence during
the recent campaign is taken as an
evidence that he also. begins to feel
the heat and burden of his thirty years
in the episcopate. He is reported to
have said recently to a friend that he
believed that if he were not made a
cardinal no American prelate would be
during Cardinal Gibbons lifetime.
OF the new archbishops, Mgr. Glen
non and Mgr. Harty are Irish-Ameri-
cans; Mgr. Moeller was born in Ohio
of German parentage and Mgr. Mess
mer is a native Of Switzerland. An
other archbishop Of pure native stock
who may come back to the United
States some day is Mgr. Robert Seton,
formerly pastor Of st. Joseph's, Jer-
sey City, but now resident in Rome
as the titular archbishop of Heliopolis.
He is a member of the Sons of the
Revolution and the Grand Army of
the Republic.
The new bishops who have been re-
Gently appointed to fill vacancies or
new sees are:
William Stang, bishop of Fall River,
Mass.
Matthias G. Lenahan, bishop Of Great
Falls, Mont.
Joseph J. Fox, bishop of Green Bay,
Wis.
J. B. Delaney, bishop of Manchester,
N. Fl.
Cornelius Van de Ven, bishop of
Naclitoches, La.
John Carroll, bishop of Helena,
Mont.
james Davis, coadjutor, with right
Of succession to the bishop of Daven-
port, Ia, and titular bishop Of Milo
potamus.
Thomas f. Lillis, bishop Of Leaven-
worth, Kan.
j. J. Hartley, bishop of Columbus,
Ohio.
Thomas r. Cusick, auxiliary bishop
of New York and titular bishop of
Temisoyra.
Charles J. O'Reilly, bishop of Baker
City, Ore.
Charles H. Cotton, bishop of Buffa-
10, N. Y.
J. f. Regis Canevin, coadjutor and
administrator of Pittsburg, Pa.
Bishops Hendrick, Dougherty and
Roxer of the Philippine dioceses.
In the new bishops appointed it is
noted that the Pope has signalized his
admiration Of active preachers by
naming three of them. Bishops Gu
sack, Stang and Delaney have worked
in the mission bands of secular clergy
in their respective dioceses. Three
also have been editors of diocesan
papers, Bishops O'Reilly, Delaney and
Lenehan.
Bishop Hartley, Of Columbus, is the
first member Of the American hierar-
chy to be born, baptized, confirmed
and ordained and consecrated in the
same diocese.
Bishop Davis is the only native born
Irishman among the new appointees.
He is native Of the County Kilkenny
and comes Of family that has given
five other members to the service Of
the church.
His brother Thomas was provincial
of the order of Calced Carmelites in
Ireland; another brother, Richard, is
a priest in the diocese of Louisville,
Ky, One Of his sisters is superior Of
the convent of the Sacred Heart at
Sag Harbor, L. l.; second holds the
same position at the academy Of the
Immaculate Heart, Newport, KY, and
a third is member of the same order
in France.
Bishop Stang is a native Of Ger