The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-01-19
IMPORTANT CATHOLIC NEWS.
'sEenty-one Million, Catholics Under
1he United States FIag-A Brief
Review of Its institutions.

review OF Its institutions.
Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 16.-From ad
rah9e sheets of the 1907 Official Catholi
directory, published by the NJ H. Wilt
zius company of this city, it is foun
mat the Catholic population of tn
unlteo States is 13,OS9,353, an increas
OF $1,000 over the previous year.
me Total number of Catholic clergy
men IS lS69S, an increase of 609. Durin
the year 1906 there were 1874 new Cath
Ole churches established, making tn
grand total of Catholic churches 1214S
There. are sc ecclesiastical seminarie
with 1887 students, and 1854 parochia
schools with an aggregate attendant,
of 1,O96S42
The catholic. Directory further show!
that there are 255 orphan asylums il
which D, 5SS orphans are taken care of
Including orphans, children in homes
as wei as, those attending the 99S insti
tutions of higher education, there art
l,266,l36 United States children being
educated in Catholic institutions
The catholic hierarchy of the United
States consists at present of one papa
delegate, one cardinal. fourteen arch
bishops, ninety bishops and eighteen
abbots. The majority of Catholic cler-
gymen are secular priests, there being
II, 135. The religious order priests num-
Der $685. and among these are repre-
sented forty-five different religious or
ders of men, the leading orders peing
Hthe Jesuits, Benedictines, Capuchins
Dominicans, Franciscans, Holy Cross
Congregation and Redemptorists
A study of the Wiltzius Directory re-
veals the fact that there are fifteen va
cancies in the Sacred College of Cardi-
nails, there being only fifty-ffve red
rob Il
is the full quota of the pope's senate.
The Oldest archbishop in the world in
point of service is the Most Rev. Dan
iel Murphy of the archdiocese of Ho-
bart, Australia, who has been a prelate
for the past siXty-one years. The old
est digritary in the United States is the
Most Rev. John Joseph Williams. arch
bishop of Boston, who was consecrated
bishop forty-one years ago.
The Catholic population of the Philip
pine islands is given at 6,S62, AZ; Porto
Rico, $1,000: Sandwich islands, $4,000;
Alaska, 1880; making the total of
Catholic subjects under the United
States flag, 20,9S6,266. The Catholic
population of Canada is given as 2,447,-
639. while that of Cuba Is 1,573,S62.
The archdiocese of New York and
Chicago are each rated at 100000. 1t
must be taken into consideration, how
ever, that the boroughs of Brooklyn and
Queens are not counted with the arch
diocese of New York. they forming a
separate diocese. With the 100000,
which would be given to the archdio-
cese of New York by the boroughs of
and Queens, the population
would be 100000. The archdiocese of
Boston is third on the list with $4,000.
The diocese of Brooklyn appears with
100000. The archdiocese of Philadel-
phia is fifth with 4S5,000. The archdio-
cese of New Orleans is sixth with $780,.
300. The diocese of Pittsburg is seventh
with $4,000. The archdiocese of st.
Louis and the dioceses of Cleveland and
Hartford are next with population of
325, 900. The diocese of Newark has $780,
BOO, diocese of Springfield $4,000, arch
diocese of Baltimore 255,000 diocese of
Detroit $50 200, diocese of Scranton ESQ.,
300, archdiocese of Milwaukee 47, IA,
of st. Paul 100000, and the
of San Francisco. 227, GEO.
while the archdiocese of Cincinnati and
he dioceses, of Buffalo and Providence
each claim 100000. AS these figures are
furnished by the bishops of the various
1ioceses they are official.
The largest diocese in the United
States, in point of area, is the diocese
IF Salt Lake. Utah, with 153, 76S square
niles. The diocese is presided over by
he Ri. Rev. Lawrence Seaman. The
lext largest diocese is that of Tucson,
Ariz.. with an area of 131,212 square
niles. This is in charge of the Rt. Rev.
Henry Granjon.
Within the confines of Greater New
York, including the boroughs of Man
attain, Bronx, Richmond. Brooklyn
md Queens there are 266 Catholic
churches. In the city of Chicago may
,e found 175 churches. in Philadelphia
L, in ST Louis rs and in Boston 81.