The San Francisco call., 1910-05-20
SIX new BISHOPS
ADDED TO CHURCH
Archbishop Ireland Consecrates
PreIates Near Spot Where
Father Hennepin Landed
Message Received From Vatican
Conveys Blessing From
Pope Plus X

ST. PAUL. May 19.-Significant of the
growth of Catholicism in the new world
was the ceremony performed by Arch
bishop Ireland in ST Paul today. by
which for the first time since the
church came TO America six bishops
We're consecrated simultaneously.
These six new bishops of st. Paul
province received their commission at
the hands of their own venerable met
ropolitan. assisted by two of his re-
naming bishops, in the chapel of St.
Paul seminary almost precisely at the
spot where Father Louis Hennepin, the
first Christian missionary to the re-
gion of the future province, landed on
the bank of the Mississippi, "a league
below the falls of st. Anthony" 230
years ago.
BLESSING FROM PONTIFF
Archbishop ireland today received a
message from Pope Plus Y congratu-
lating the archbishop on the consecra-
tion of the six new bishops
The message reads:
The holy father with fullness of
heart imparts his blessing to your
self and to sufferagan prelates as
slsting you. as benefting to them,
to the six newly consecrated bish-
ops entering into the churchs Sa-
cred pTincedom, to whom he earn
est!y wishes a prosperous and
stainless career. MERRY DEL VAL.
PROGRESS IN PROVINCE
The archbishop. his nine bishops and
his SEQ priests out of 900 now in the
province represented "a Catholic popu-
lation Of 100000. At the time the first
bishop of St Paul was consecrated so
years ago there were two priests and
perhaps 1000 members Of the church
The consecrator himself and the
preacher of the conservation sermon,
Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux
Falls. s. D., were the two first sem
inarians of the diocese of St Paul
chosen from among the boys of the
first parish school by Bishop Cretin,
first bishop of St. Paul The ceremony
they conducted today was before the
governor of the state and his staff. 500
priests. so bishops. $50 seminarians and
Monsignor Diomede Falconio, apostolic
delegate of the Vatican to the United
States.
NAMES OF NEW BISHOPS
The bishops consecrated were:
Rev James O'Reilly of Minneapolis,
bishop of Fargo, \. d.
Rev. John J. Lawler. cathedral OF
St Paul, auxiliary bishop of the arch
diocese of st. Paul
Rev Patrick L. Heffron, rector of ST.
Pauls seminary, bishop of Winona,
MINI.
Rev. Timothy Corbett of Duluth,
bishop of Crookston, Mimi
Rev. Vincent Wehrle of the Bene-
dictine order and abbot of the monas-
terry at Richardton, n. D., bishop of
Bismarck, n. d.
Rev. Joseph F. Busch, head of the
missionary band in the archdiocese of
St. Paul, bishop of Lead, S. D.
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Bishop James McGolrich of Duluth and
Rt- Rev. James Trobec of ST. Cloud,
MINI. Rev. Francis Schaefer was mas
ter of ceremonies.
EVENT OF GREAT MOMENT
AS an event of great moment in the
Catholic church the ceremony is said
by ecclesiastics to have been over
shadowed but once in modern times,
when the pope himself consecrated IA
new French bishops, and the only cere-
mony in the United States which ap-
proXimated it in significance was when
Archbishop Ireland cOnsecrated Bishops
Shanley, McGolrick and Cotter at the
same time.
Under the direction of Rev Father
Schaefer, the procession of about 500
priests and $50 seminarians, formed on
the southern side of the spacious
grounds overlooking the Mississippi,
presented a striking appearance as it
wended its way underneath the great
oak trees to st. Mary's chapel where
the conservation ceremonies We're held.
Following the priests came the bish-
ops, then the bishops elect, and last
the archbishop, all in the robes of their
Office.
An immense gathering OF the laity
witnessed the procession, but, owing to
the fact that the chapel had seating
capacity for only the priests, the public
was not admitted TO witness the con-
secration.