The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-27
Catholic Directory of Wiscon-
sin Shows Church Has Over
100000 Communicates
HAS GAINED MUCH PROPERTY
Milwaukee Diocese has $4,000 Roman
Catholics and S37 Priests are En-
gagged in the Work of the Church
in the State.

An increase of 6,758 in the Roman
Catholic population of the state has
been made during the past year. The
total Catholic population of the state
| is now 532,217. These figures are
obtained from advance proofs of the
official Catholic directory, published by
| the M. H. Wiltzius company. Ma
tional statistics are being compiled by
the company's New York branch, and
will be ready February I. The sta
tistics announced today are for Wis
consin only, and do not include that
territory of the Milwaukee archdio-
cese in the upper peninsula of Michi-
gan.
There are four dioceses in the Bad
ger state, according to the directory,
the population being as follows: Mil
waukee, 238,Ooo; Green Bay, 137 ,633;
Lacrosse, 112,4O0; Superior, 44,184.
| The total number Of Catholic priests
in this state is S37, of which number
$50 are secular clergy and 168 mem
bers of religious orders.
| According to the Wiltzius directory
there are 814 Catholic churches in
Wisconsin, 534 having resident pas
tors and $50 being mission churches
attended by the nearest pastor. A
gain of twenty-five churches is shown
over last years reports.
The fourteen religious orders of
men represented in the dioceses of this
state include the Carmelite fathers,
the Capuchins, the Congregation of
the Holy Cross, the Black Franciscans,
| the Brown Franciscans, Jesuits, Ser
vite fathers, the Premonstratensian
order, the Alexians, the Fathers of the
Divine Savior, the Oblate fathers, the
Congregation of the Holy Ghost, the
Dominicans and he Missionaries of the
Sacred Heart.
The Catholics of Wisconsin have
346 parochial schools, gain of ten
over last year. In these parochial
schools there are being educated
65,619 children, showing a gain of
2,426 over the previous year. Wis
consin has twenty-three institutions of
irpba ol,,1t
normal schools, academies and high
schools
| The total number of young people
under Catholic care, including those
in the parochial schools, the high
schools, orphan asylums and industrial
schools, is 1864 A year ago there
were 67,744 young people in Catholic
institutions, showing a gain of 1920
during the past year.
Among the various Roman Catholic
institutions in this state are one theo-
logical seminary, one university, nine
colleges for boys, one normal school,
nine academies for girls, ten orphan
asylums, two infant asylums, four in
dustrial/ schools, one deaf-mute asy-
lum, one home for boys, one school for
feeble minded, twenty seven hospitals
and sanitoriums, two homes for the
aged, one home for girls, one Indian
school, one school of domestic science
and four high schools.
Looking over the Wiltzius directory
it is found that within the limits of
this state are published twenty Cath
olic weekies and monthlies, in Eng
lish, German, Polish, Bohemian and
Hollandish.
The directory is book of over
1900 pages. Michael H. Wiltzius is
president and publisher, and J. H.
Meier, editor and advertising manager.
The number of churches in the larger
cities of Wisconsin is as follows: Mil
waukee, So; Lacrosse, 8; Superior s.;
Racine, z; Green Bay, 6; Oshkosh. g.;
Madison, 6; Kenosha, 6; Fond du Lac.
4; Marinette, 4.
The archdiocese of Milwaukee en-
braces 1921 square miles; the diocese
of Lacrosse, 1929, and Superior,
1915. Green Bay has 1883 square
miles. There are nine monasteries
in this state.
Each diocese has its archbishop or
bishop, vicar general, diocesan consul
tors, deans, permanent rectors, school
board, as well as a censor librorum
who passes on all Catholic books to be