Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-08-07
POLISH BISHOP RODE

SOSlS0OS oI00oS 81 TOlISu@I
American Bishop--2oo-
900 Rejoice
The conservation of the Rev. Paul
Peter Rhode, D. D., pastor of St.
M1chaels Polish Roman Catholic
church of South Chicago, as auxiliary
bishop of the Chicago archdiocese,
took place Wednesday, July 80, and is
not only of vast Importance in Chica-
go religious life, but is the most sig
nificant, far reaching and greatest
event in the religious and national life
of the Polish Americans of the United
States and of historical Importance to
the Polish nation
Polish priests and laymen in Chica-
60 and throughout the United States
publicly showed their ioy over the
promotion of Father Rhode. Arch
bishop Quigley from the day on which
the receipt Of the briefs was an
nounced has daily received letters,
kilograms, and other messages of
thanks from Polish American priests
and laity and also from Polish speak
ing people in Poland and practically
in every portion of the globe.
Catholics of all natiOnalities in the
Chicago archdiocese are joining to
make the greeting of their new auxil1-
airy bishop an impressive one. The
recipient of the honors has been seek
! ing seclusion in work in his parish.
St. Michael s-are all hard working
I <I1 c%a
works, and these are happiest of all
over the honor bestowed upon their
spiritual guide. He has been much
to them and has served them in many
capacities. In their spiritual wants
he has supplied them with advice and
in their material condition he has
urged them to save and be temperate.
AS citizens they found in him the best
champion Of law, order, and respect
for authority, and it is due to his per-
sistent and personal efforts that social
ism has taken no root in that parish
of workingmen.
| Born in the Polish village of Wero-
{ wo, IN German Poland, on Sept 16.
! 1871, Paul Peter Rhode lost his father
when an infant and was left to the
care of his good mother, Mrs. Chris
tine Rhode, who now is the proudest
| Polish mother in America. She
! brought her son to the United States
when he was 8 years old. For five
years he attended the st. Stanislaus
| parochial school at Noble and Bradley
streets, over which the late Rev. Vim
! cent Barzynski was pastor After the
parochial school training he was sent
! to st. Mary's college in st. Mary s.,
Ky. which instruction. like the st.
Stanislaus parish was conducted by
! priests of the Resurrectionists congre-
cation. St. Ignatius college, the Chi
cago institution OF the Jesuit Fathers,
was the next seat Of learning he at
| tended and he completed his studies at
| st. Francis seminary in st. Francis,
| Wis.
! He was ordained priest on June 1,
1894, and eight days later he cele-
| brated his first mass. His first assign
ment as priest was an assistant to the
Rev. John Radziejewski, pastor of st.
Adalbert's Polish Roman Catholic
church, Seventeenth and Paulina
streets. Then he was made pastor OF
the IS. Peter and Paul church, Thirty
eight and Paulina streets.
! On Oct. L., 1897, he was put in
charge of St. M1chael's church in Chi
cago, of which he is still pastor. AT
that time the congregation numbered
500 families. Now it numbers l, 300
families. There was a debt of $S75, 0OC
upon the church grounds This dept
the pastor not only paid off but pur-
chased additional grounds and made
vast Improvements. Last year he be-
gan the erection OF a new church,
which, when completed will cost
$780, 600 and will be one of the finest
Gothic structures in America. The
church property now represents 9
value of about $3.50, OOO
1t was the plan OF committee Of
leading Polish Americans to arrange
an elaborate banquet IN his honor or
the night Of July 30 after the conse
Grafton ceremonies. When the bishop
elect heard of it he sent for Leon $50
pinski, the chairman, and told him hi
would not be the guest of an exclusive
set of people on that day, but that hi
desired to be accessible to all of thu
people. Accordingly the COMMITTEES
changed it's plans and public recep
ton will supersede the banquet plan
To make sure that his wishes will bt
carried out the bishop elect announced
that he would start for home at II
O. clock at night and that all festivi
ties must end at that hour.
There were three distinct features
in connection with the elevation Of
Father Rhode to the bishopric. First
was the conservation in Holy Name
{ cathedral at 10 a. m. by Archbishop
1Quigley, assisted by Bishop Muldoor
Of Chicago, whose transfer to take
charge of the new diocese of Rockford
is practically conceded in church cir
cles, and by Bishop Koudelka of Cleve
land, Ohio, the first Bohemian bishop
in America.
! The Rev. Francis LANCE and the
Rev. Stanislaus Nawrocki, who re-
ceived the next largest number OIL
votes for bishop, were deacons of hon
| or. The Rev. NJ. J. Fitzsimmons wa.
the assistant priest; the Rev. E. NJ
Dunno, D. D., the notary the Rev.
Francis Wojtalewicz and the Rev. E.
Rogalski, deacon and subdeacon of the