Evening star., 1948-02-22
New Archbishop
To Be Installed
Al Baltimore
Catholic Ceremonies
Planned Tuesday for
Most Rev. F. P. Keouqh

The Most Rev. Francis p. Keough
will be installed as the eleventh
Archbishop of Baltimore at 10 am.
Tuesday in the Baltimore Cathedral
Six archbishops, 80 bishops, five
abbots and 81 monsignori will be
among those witnessing the install
lation. The Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washington,
will attend the ceremony.
Others will include the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos-
tolic Delegate to the United States;
Archbishop John r McNicholas,
o. P, Of Cincinnati; Richard j..
Gushing of Boston; Joseph E. Ritter
of st. Louis; and j. Francis Nc
Intyre, Coadjutor Archbishop of
New York.
Gov. Lane and Wife to Attend.
Public officials attending the serv-
Ice will include Gov. and Mrs. Lane;
Maryland Senators Tydings and
O'Conor and their wives; and Mary
land Representatives Beall, Fallon,
Garmatz, Meade and their wives.
Archbishop Keough will be con-
Quoted to his throne as the new
head of the Baltimore See, primate
Catholic See of the United States,
by Archbishop Cicognani and Msgr.
Joseph M. Nelligan, chancellor of
the Archdiocese of Baltimore, after
the reading of the papal DEGREES
of appointment by the Rev. John
, j. Duggan, vice chancellor Of the
archdiocese.
Addresses will be delivered by
Bishop Matthew Brady of Manches-
ter, N. H., and Archbishop Keough.
A solemn pontiflcal mass will be
sung by the apostolic delegate.
43 d. c. Priests to Be in Party.
Forty-three priests from Wash
ing will attend the installation
service. Bishops attending will be
the Right Rev. John M. Mcnamara,
administrator of the Archdiocese of
Baltimore, and the Right Rev. Law
renee j. Shehan, Auxiliary Bishop
OF Baltimore.
Washington Monsignori who will
hUVCAlo I'D OlGOil ~ OIlCCll, OOIlIl
K. Cartwright. P. J. Mccormick,
Donald A. MacLean, John J. Reilly
John j. Russell, John j. McClaf-
ferty, Edward P. McAdams, Howard
j. Carroll, J. w. Dowling, Frederick
@. Hochwalt, John O'Grady, Joseph
McShea and Gerald A. Ryan.
Archbishop Keough was born at
Nnr- Rrifait1
ordained a priest in 1916. He served
as assistant chancellor to the Bishop
of Hartford and as diocesan director
of the Society for the Propagation
of the Faith before being appointed
Bishop of Providence, r. l., in 1884.
In his new post he will be spiritual
head of 10000 Catholics
Succeeds Archbishop CurIey.
He succeeds the Most Rev. Michael
J. Curley, 10th archbishop Of the
diocese who died in May, 1947.
Archbishop. Curley, who served as
head of the archdiocese from 1921
to the time of his death, followed
James Cardinal Gibbons. outstand-
ing Catholic prelate of the United
States for many years. H.
The archdiocese of Baltimore was
established as a diocese April 6,
1879, and as an archdiocese April 8,
1908. 1t included the District until
9 special act of the Holy See July
%, 1899, made Washington an arch
diocese in its own right, with Arch
bishopsCurley as the Archbishop of
Baltimore and Washington.
The Washington archdiocese was
made separate archdiocese-with
the adjacent Maryland counties Of
Montgomery, Calvert, Charles, St.
Mary's and Prince Georges included
in it-last November.