Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-17
WEHRLE INSTALLED AS Head
Of new DIOCESE OF BISMARCK, N, D,
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES CR0WDs-MANY
UNABLE TO GET INTO cAT1E INSTALLATION SERMON
DELIVERED ARCHBISHOP IRELAND OF ST. PAUL - FORTY
PRIESTS TOOK CEREMONIES

With the pomp that marks an
makes impressive the high ceremor
ials of the Roman Catholic Church
the Right Rev. Vincent Wehrle, Abbo
of st. Mary's, and Bishop of Bismarck
was installed in his sacred Office il
St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday fore
noon. The installation was the pre-
lude to a pontificial high mass ant
was conducted by the Most Rev. Johl
Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul, il
the midst of surroundings as impres
sive as the resources Of al institution
rich in the tradition of ages coult
create. Nearly forty priests took par
in the ceremony and an immense
throng filled the pews and aisles o
the cathedral-which was quite in
adequate to containing the crowd that
sought admittance.
The church was splendid in the
alter decorations that were provided
for the occasion by the sisters and
it's new dignity as the seat of bishop
was attested by thrones erected on
either side of the transept arch
That to the right, designed for the
use of the archbishop, was hung in
plain crimson while Bishop Wehrles
throne was of crimson and gold. The
high alter was decorated with natural
and artifi cial flowers and, cleaning
with lights and gold, formed an i'm
pressive and beautiful background
for the magnificent white and gold
vestments of the officiating clergy
men. The alter of the Blessed Virgin
and that Of St.. Joseph were both
resplendent with flowers. From the
roof of the nave streamers in the pap
al colors were festooned and about
the pulpit were massed the brilliant
banners Of the Catholic societies tax
ing part in the celebration
The body of the church was cleared
of it's early occupants just before
1890 and the procession of clergy
and laymen entered by the main doors
the choir rendering the professional
"Praise Ye The Father" The mass
ing of the acolytes and attending
clergy in black cossacks and white
surplices, with the touches of color
lent by the purple of the arch-episco-
pal robes and the white and gold
chasubles and copes of the officers
of the mass, made the spectacle at
the high altar a most impressive one
as the members of the societies
marched into the church, occupying
the greater part of the central body
of the edifce..
PapaI Bulls are Read
Archbishop Ireland arose in his
place when the seats were filled and
that the people still pressing
for admission should come forward
in the aisles and, when the church
would hold no more, he commanded
hat the letters of the pontiff Great.
ng the diocese of Bismarck be read.
The reading was most impressive,
he sonorous latin phrases falling
rom the lips of the Rev. Father
of Fargo, upon the hushed
multitude as the utterance of the
)ontiff himself. Following this the
)ull nominating Bishop Wehrle was
'ead by Fat her O'Driscoll in both Lat
n and English. Then followed the
simple ceremony of the installation
tself.. The archbishop briefly stated
he right of the pontiff to designate
lis fellow apostles and to create dio-
:eses as needed. Then he declared
he diocese of Bismarck to be proper