Roman Catholic Church

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1910, Page 4

Roman Catholic Church

CKEATrOX OK XKW DISEASES. According to Mgr. Hataudier's "Aunuairo ecclesiasti([iie" for 1910, there wore until this week 1029 residential .sees in the Catholic world (918 of the Latin and 81 of Oriental rites), and now the Pope has in a single week made a considerable •addition to the number. Although the announcement has not been made officially, it may be taken for granted (states tho 'English "Tablet") that two new dioceses, those of C'rookston and Bismarck, 'arc to be added to the hierarchy of the United States—already, with tlio exception of Ttaly, the largest in the. Catholic world; three new sees will be created in the near future in Canada; no fewer than four new' sees and one Prefecture Apostolic have been established in the Philippines at the recommendation of the Apostolic Delegate, Mgr. Agius. 0.5.8., Archbishop of Palmyra: iii South America 'his Holiness has created in Brazil two new ecclesiastical Provinces, elevating two dioceses to the metropolitan dignity and creating five others, besides adding, two other new dioceses to the Province of Bahia, and in the Argentine Republic two new dioceses have also been created—whidi are to lie endowed by the Government in virtue of the Concordat <>xletinjr between the Holy See and the Republic. With these addiJ'oT* *f*l n - Ameri(,;, ""w numbers 1.31 •nrehdinmses and dioceses.