The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-24
BIG GAIN IN THE CHURCH.
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIRECTORY
GIVES THE FIGURES.
What Is Being Done in the Direction
of Charity and Education Work
Is Told Also.

Milwaukee, Jan. 22.-There are 49,
SS7 APO Roman Catholics in the United
States, according to the advance
sheets of the 1908 official Catholic di-
rectory, published by the NJ. H. Wilt
zius comapny of this city These fig
ures show an increase of 7SS,O73 over
last year. Including the Catholic re-
public of the Philippines, which
amounts to 7,lO6,f52, and adding the
100000 Catholic population of Porto
Rico and the $4,000 Catholics of the
Sandwich Islands, the entire Roman
Catholic population under the United
States flag amounts to 22,OlS,S9S.
In this country there are 1865
Roman Catholic clcrgymen, ,496 be-
ing secular priests, and 1909 being
members of religious orders, such as
the Jesuits, Benedictines, Redemption
lists, Dominicans and forty-fve other
communities.
The total number of Roman Catho-
lie churches in the United States is
l2,5l3, of which S,40S have resident
neighboring parishes. There are
eighty four seminaries, $500 students,
200 colleges for boys and G97 acade
mics for girls. There are 4,443
parochial schools, with an average
total attendance of l,ll3,9O6. Includ-
ing the children at parochial schools,
high schools, colleges, academies, Or
phan asylums and other charitable
institutions, the grand total of chill:
dren in Roman Catholic educational
institutions is 100000.
There are 57,463 nuns in the United
States, all of them engaged in educa
tional or charitable work. There are
PIP orphan asylums, in which A.
597 orphans are cared for. All told,
there are l,O54 charitable institutions
under Roman Catholic supervision in
this country.
The United States at present is
governed by one apostolic delegate,
one cardinal, thirteen archbishops,
ninety-four bishops, two archabbots,
seventeen abbots, two vicar apostolics,
one prior and one project apostolic;
the hierarchy of the country consist
ing, therefore of 1872 prelates. In ad
dition to these Archbishop Seton, an
American, is at present residing in
Rome.
New York leads the forty-six states
with Roman 5sthoiic population of
2.65O,OOO. Illinois is second, with
l,46S.644; Pennsylvania third, with L.
4O4 ,6O4: Massachusetts fourth, with
population of l,2l3,l2l; Ohio fol
lows with 6l9.029, and Wisconsin is
next with 5lS,459 Michigan has AL
1913 Catholics; Missouri follows with
447.7O3; Minnesota NINTH with 425,-
SS5; California tenth. with 36S,S75;
Texas. 276,9l7: Iowa, 240,555, and
Indiana, POI ,43S.
The archdiocese of Chicago has one
archbishop. two bishops, 44O secular
and l9l religious clergy; 3l4 churches
with resident priests, tlirty-five mis-
sions with churches, three seminaries.
$50 Students: eleven colleges for boys,
twenty seven academies for girls, 1879
parishes with schools. 1900 children
attending schools, nine orphan asy-
lums with 1,499 orphans, and forty
four charitable institutions. A total
of 93657 children are found in Cath
Ollie institutions and the Catholic pop
ulation is about 100000.
Looking over the Wisconsin section
of the directory it is found that
the archdiocese of Milwaukee has a
population of 100000. The diocese OF
Green Bay. $4,000; diocese of La
Crosse. lO9275. and the diocese of
Superior, 44,lS4; total OF 5lS,4o9.
Eight hundred and twenty-five Ro-
man Catholic churches may be found
in this state, with 333 parochlal
schools with Gl,457 pupils enrolled. :.