Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-16
MANY CATHOLICS
UNDER U. S. FLAG
IN UNITED STATES GAIN OF H..
s7e IS NOTED OVER
YEAR AGO.
MORE HAN HALF A MILLION OF
FAITH RESIDE IN
WISCONSIN.

There are 22,5S7,0 79 Roman Catho-
lies under the United States flag, &C
cording to advance copies of the 1910
Catholic directory published by the
NJ. H. Wfltzus company This in
cludes the United States, Alaska.
the Philippines, Porto Rico and the
the Philippines, Porto Rico and the
Hawaiian islands The Catholic popu-
lation under the British flag, accord
ing to the directory, is 12.05S,41S. The
German empire boasts of 2O.327,913
Catholics, while in Austro-Hungary
there are 35.57OS73.
According to the directory there are
in the United States proper, 14,347,027
Catholics. showing gain Of 111,576
over the figures presented a year ago.
There are 1850 Catholic priests in
the United States.
Catholics In Wisconsin.
The table of states shows that Wis
consin has 532,217 Catholics. There
are four dioceses in the state, the
population being as follows; Archdio-
cese of Milwaukee, 23S,000; the do
eese of Green Bay, 1858: diocese of
La Crosse, 112,4O0; dicese of Super.
Tor, 44.1s4 There are 1914 Catholic
churches in Wisconsin, 534 having re
sident pastors. In the Archdiocese of
Milwaukee, embracing tie counties
of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Kenosha,
Racine, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond
du Lac. Green, GreSn Lake, Jefferson,
Marquette, Ozaukee, Rock, Sheboygan,
Walworth, and Washington, there
are 23s,000 Catholics, with S77 priests.
OF the 377 priests 303 are secular
clergy and "A are members of re-
ligious orders. In the II counties
comprising Archbishop Messmer's ter
ritory there are 272 churches, one uni
yersity, five colleges for boys one nor
NAL school, and six academies for
young women Archbishop Messmer
has under his jurisdiction 142 paro
chial schools with an enrolment of
$1,000. Including the children in the
parochial schools, academies, col.
leges, orphan asylums. industrial
schools and other Institutions the
grand total of young people under
Catholic care in the archdiocese of
Milwaukee is 1851. Belonging to
Archbishop Messmer's diocese are 81
charitable institutions. such as or.
phan asylums. infant asylums, INDUS
trial schools, homes for the aged, hos
pitals AID schools for the feeble
minded
Number os Churches.
The following facss and figures are
shown by the directory:
In the United States there are S,S49
Catholic churches with resident
priests: 1885 churches supplied by
neighboring pastors; SO Summaries
with 6,1S2 academies for girls; 2Ss or.
phan asylums with 51,541 inmates;
total number OF charitable institu.
tons, 1.125: s.845 parocnial schools
with attendance of 1.237.251, showing
gain of S9.33S; total number OF
children In Catholic institutions. 1,45O..
AS. showing a gain of 53,f01 over
preceding year. New York ranks first
in Catholic population. having 2,722.-
649; Pennsylvania second with 1,494,-
1866; Illinois third. 1.44S.752; Wiscon.
SIN. seventh, 532.2t7; New Jersey,
eight. 10000.
Chicago has the largest number of
Catholic churches, the number being
lS7; New York. 1875; Brooklyn 10;
Philadelphia. 99 St Louis, So; Pitts
burg. 6S: Boston and Cleveland. each
81.