The Irish standard., 1918-02-23
New Archbishop Was Conseerated in
1910 by Archbishop Blenk, Whom
He Succeeds.
Archdiocese Includes Ten Episcopal
Sees In Seven States, with Catholics
Population Of $4,000 and 315
Priests.

Priests.
Rome, Feb. IL, 1918.-Pope Benedict
has divided the Archdiocese of New
Orleans, La, as head of which Bishop
Shaw of San Antonio, Texas, has just
been appointed, and has created out
of portion of it a new diocese-that
of Lafayette, La. Archbishop Shaw
has been made administrator of the
new diocese until a bishop has been
appointed to preside over it.
Thursday morning His Excellency,
the Most Rev. John Bonzano, DID,,
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, officially confirmed what had
been rumored in the press some days
previous, that the Rt. Rev. John w.
Shaw, DID,, Bishop Of San Antonio,
Texas, had been chosen by the Holy
See to fill the Archepiscopal See of
New Orleans, vacated by the death of
the late Most Rev. James H. Blenk,
s. NJ, D. D.
The Right Rev. John w. Shaw, DID,,
Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, newly
appointed Archbishop of New Orleans,
is a Southerner by birth and tradition.
He was born in Mobile, Ala, in 1868,
and received his ecclesiastical train
ing in Ireland and at the American
college in Rome Returning to this
country he was after short term of
missionary service, called to the rec
torship of the Cathedral of Mobile.
For eighteen years he filled the office
of rector of the Cathedral and for
fourteen years secretary and chancel-
lor to Bishop Allen, when the failing
health of the venerable Bishop Forest,
of San Antonio, prompted this prelate
early in 1910 to ask for a coadjutor.
Bishop Forest came to New Orleans
to consult with Archbishop Blenk and
the Bishops of the Province on the
important matter, and the choice fell
by unanimous consent upon the able
Chancellor of the Diocese of Mobile.
Father Shaw fastened to New Or
leans and begged Archbishop Blenk to
help him out" and have someone else
appointed to the Coadjutorship. But
Archbishop Blenk was too wise prel-
ate not to recognize eminent ability
and qualifications, and urged that the
appointment be accepted.
consecrated In 1910.
Bishop Shaw was consecrated by
Archbishop Blenk in the Cathedral Of
Mobile, April IA, 1910.
Bishop Forest died in 1911 and
Bishop Shaw succeeded to the See.
His record as Bishop of San Antonio
has been one of wise, firm and tactful
administration, especially with rela-
the border in Mexico. The echoes of
his great charity were borne to the
Holy See by those, whom he had so be-
friended, and the Sovereign Pontiff,
Pope Benedict XIV, showed his deep
appreciation of this apostolic work by
appointing him, in 1916, assistant at
the Pontihcal Throne and writing him
an autograph letter thanking him for
all that he had done for the suffering
Church In Mexico.
The news of the appointment has
evoked deep satisfaction in New Or
leans.
The spiritual direction of the Arch
diocese Of New Orleans Is RESPONSE
BILE trust since that see has a Catholic
population of $4,000 ministered to by
315 priests, secular and religious. The
diocese was created in 1888 with the
Rt. Rev. Luis Penalver Y. Cardenas,
DID,, as its first Bishop. New Orleans
was named an Archdiocese in 1850 and
Most Rev. Anthony Blanc, DID,, was
it's first Archbishop.
Missionary efforts among the COL
ored people are active, the Diocese
having 81 schools for colored children
with $40 pupils in attendance.
The province Of New Orleans, COM
prising the states Of Louisiana, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and the western part of
Florida, includes the Dioceses of Alex
andria, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Calves
ton, Little Rock, Mobile, Matches, Ok
lahoma, San Antonio, and the newly
created Diocese Of Lafayette, La.
1AsiLlcA OF ST. ANTHONY At
PApUA.
Last week the long-suffering town
of Padua had q renewal Of air raids
The world.famed Basilica of st. An
thonv had a varv narrow escaDe: sew.