The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
ARCHBISHOP Of JANSENISTS
 BOWS TO POPE'S AUTHORITY
Metropolitan de Rache Head of Old Roman Catholic
 Church in America, surrenders Office

Archbishop de Berbhes ct de Ra- che, Metropolitan of the Old Roman Catholic (Jansenist) Church of America, the highest dignatary of that religious sect in the western hemisphere, has submitted to the au- thority of the Pope, it was announc- ed last night.
 The formal reception of the Arch bishop into the Church is being ar ranged. The ecclesiastical authorities are awaiting a definite ruling from de Rache's exact status in the church. though official notice of the accept ance of his submission has been re- ceived here through Merry del Val, Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office.
 The submission of Archbishop de Berghes ct de Rache is of historic importance in religious annals. Never before in the progress of the Catholic Church in America mas so distin- guished and so powerful a prelate of another organization placed him self under the jurisdiction of the Vat ican and it's representatives here. 10000 Communicants Here. Archbishop de Berghes ct de Rache is the acknowledged head of a group of congregations claiming to
 
 | tered through the United States and Canada. He exercises power over two bishops, about fifty priests, fifty churches and considerable church property. Congregations of the "OId Roman Catholic Church. are situat- ed in New Jersey, Massachusetts, H. linois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas and other states. Most of the comnunicants are of foreign birth or percentage
 The American branch of the Jan senist church is the most popu1ous and powerful unit of the creed in the world, now. For decades there has 1 been a steady drift of it's membership back to Rome in all other countries, so that today it's total strength is lit l tie if any more than 250,O00 souls | Founded in Utrecht. The cradle of the movement is in l Utrecht, Holland, where in the mid- l dle of the seventeenth century Jan | senism originated and developed with i a rapidity and strength that shook 1 Europe and kept four Popes con i cerned in combating it. Many pre- l lates still regard Jansenism as the l foundation of Modernism in the Ro- man Catholic faith. It was a move ment of antagonisn to Papal author 1 1 Church, and. though frequently in- l terdicted, its adherents have refused | to confess themselves to be outside
 the faith. They have generally re- | tained the ritual and ceremonies ot the Catholic Church in full.
 The Archbishop and Metropolitan i who has just submitted to Rome | was a clergyman of the Church o1 | England in Great Britain. He is wei
 known in New York, Chicago, anG
 Boston. Among his friends of Angel | ican faith are Bishop Burch ant many of the Episcopal rectors in the
 city. He was one of the consecrat,
 ors of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine by invitation of the late Bish. op Greer.
 The Archbishop possesses title. and orders of nobility. His name il
 full is Prince and Duke de Landas
 Berghes St. Winock ct de Rach. | (Rodolphe Francois Edouard St. Pa I trice A1phonsus Chislain de Gram e-Hamilton de Lorraine), D. D., L L. B., B. D., Most Reverend Arch
 bishop and Metropolitan of the OIt
 Roman Catholic Church in America i, His titles were recognized and ap l proved by King Leopold of Belgium
 and Emperor Frencis Joseph of Aus tria-HunEary.