The following tables give the lists of the archbishop- rics, bishoprics, and vicariates apostolic, with the num- ber of priests, churches, and members in each, the year of their foundation and their territorial extent. Thus it not only presents a summary of the Church at the be- ginning of 1879, but it exhibits its gradual grow^th and its comparative strength in different parts of the Union :
1. EoOt.ESIASTIOAL PrOVINOK OF BALTIMORE.
nrd.|P"-'-
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1789
1820 1S21 1850 1870 1850 1868 1868
258
16 27 27 10 30 16 7
127
15 22 25 20 63 25 13
300,000
10,000 18,000 25,000 10,000 18,000 14,000 1,700
(Archbishopric, 1808.)
5. St. Augustine
7. Wilmington (Del.)...
8. North Carolina (V. A.)
Total
391
310
3il6,T00
2. EOCLEBIASTICAT, PeOVINOB OF BoSTON.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches,
Roman Catholics.
1808
IS.'iS
1S44 18.55 1872 1871
218
32
100 05
88 98
137
65 93 77 62 86
310,000
35,000 150,000
80,000 136,000 150,000
(Archbishopric, 1875.)
3. Hartford
4. Porliand
5. Providence
Total
596
520
861,000
3. E0CI.E8IA8T10AI. PnoviNOK OF Cincinnati.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1. Cincinnati
1822
1847 1868 IS.^3 1SH2 18.57 1808 1834
168
159 59 56
127 97
121
122
197
197 77 52 194 112 102 1.54
200,000
125.000 00,000 40,000
175.000 80,000
1.50,000 85,000
(Archbishopric, 1833.)
2. Cleveland
3. Columbus
4. Covington
6. Detroit
6. Fort Wayne '.
7. Louisville
8. Vincennes
Total
909 1 0K.'i
915,000
4. ECOLKSIASTIOAT.
Province of Milwaukee,
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1844
1868 1868 1857 18(j5 1858
1875
228
73
48 19
108 44
260
109 94
28
ies
42
195,000
65,000 46,000 24,000
ii5,'6o6
18,500
(Archbishopric, 1844.)
2. Green Bay
3. La Ciosse
and SautSainte Marie.
5. St. Paul
6. Northern Minnesota)
(V.A.) y
Total
520
701
463,.5O0
5. Ecclesiastical Pbovinoe of New Orleans.
Estab- lished.
Priests,
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1. New Orleans
1793
1847 1843 1824 1837 1853 1S74
162
41 16 35 25 15 37 22
94
35 23 26
41 17 47 10
250,000
25,000 4,000 6,000 12,500 30,000 45,000 30,000
(Archbishopric, 1870.)
2. Galveston
3. Little Rock
4. Mobile
8. Brownsville (V.A.)..
1874
Total
353
293
402,500
6. Ecclesiastical Peovinoe of New York.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches,
Roman Catholics.
1. New York
1808
1847 1853 1847 18.53 1872 1868
250
163 135 150 178 53 60
150
164 79 135 134 81 79
600,000
200,000 200,000 100,000 100,000 58,000 65,000
(Archbishopric, 1850.)
2. Albany
4. Biiflalo
Total
989 i 822
1,323,000
7. Ecclesiastical Province of Oregon.
.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1840
1850 1SG8
23
15 13
22
23 14
20,000
n,.500 5,050
(Archbishopric, 1846.)
2. Nesqually
3. Idaho (V.A.)
Total
51
59
37,150
8. Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1. Philadelphia
1809
1853 1868 1843 1876
1868
232
61
100 184
57
128
81 93 130
70
275,000
45,000 150,000 125,000
'.noimio
(Archbishopric, 1875.)
2. Erie
4. Pittsburgh
and Allegheny ...
Total
634 1 .502 1 645.000 1
1
9. Ecclesiastical Province of St, Louis.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches. 207
165 194 1.55 104
29
93
30
59
Roman Catholics.
250,000
100,000
230,000
120,000
70,000
10,000
60,000 18,000 39,000
1826
1857 1844 1837 1877 1837 1877 1868 1859
250
140 204 189 69 27 60 26 54
(Archbishopric, 1847.)
2. Alton
6 Nashville
8 St. Joseph
9. Nebraska (V.A.)
Total
1019
1036
897,000
10. Ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches.
Roman Catholics.
1. San Francisco
(Archbishopric, 1853.)
2. Grass Valley
3. Monterey and Los i
Angeles 1
1S53 1868 1850
128 31 38
103 35 35
180,000 14,000 24,000
Total
197 1 173
218,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 85
ROMAN EMPIRE
11. ECOLESIASTICAI, PllOTINOE OP SaNTA Pe.
Estab- lished.
Priests.
Churches.
Kuutiin
Catholics.
lt>&0
1S69 18GS
1S76
52
14
21
4
29
18 41
109,000
30,000 20,000
3,TS0
(Archbishopric, 1875.)
2. Arizona (V. A.)
;!. Colorado (V.A.)
4. ludiau Territory (P. i
A.) )
Total
91
88
162,780
V. Periodicals. — The Shamrock, an Irish-American paper established in New York in 1815, and edited hj' Thomas O'Conor, father of the distinguished jurist Charles O'Conor, is named as the first American jour- nal to which the term Catholic may be applied, as it incidentally defended Catholic as well as Irish inter- ests. The real founder of Catholic journalism in Amer- ica was bishop England of Charleston, who in 1822 established the United States Catholic Miscellany at Charleston, S. C. It was discontinued in 1861. Among the Catholic journals still (1879) existing, the Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati, established in 1831, and the Pilot of Boston, established in 1837, are the oldest. Since then the number has been largely increased. Among the weekly organs of the Church, besides those already named, the Freeman^s Journal of New York, ed- ited by James A. McMaster, and the Tablet, likewise of New York (which has counted among its frequent con- tributors Dr. O. Brownson, Mrs. J. Sadlier, and Dr. J. V. Huntington), are best known. The Catholic World of New York, established in 1865 by I. T. Hecker, the founder of the Order of the Paulists, stands at the head of the magazines in age and rank. When Dr. O. Brown- sou, a journalist of considerable note, became in 1844 a Koman Catholic, he of course turned the .service of the periodical edited by him to the defence of the Catholic Church, and thus gave to the Romanists of the United States their first Quarterly Review. Brownson's Review was suspended in 18G4, revived in 1873, but finalh' dis- continued a short time before the author's death. It was succeeded by the A merican Catholic Quarterly Re- view, established in Philadelphia in 1876, and edited by Dr. James A. Corcoran. Among the daily papers of the United States the Roman Catholic Church is feebly rep- resented. Murray, in his Popular History of the Cath- olic Church in the United States (5th ed. 1877, p. 553), says, " There is not a daily paper in the United States tit for a Catholic child to read." This remark, how- ever, can only be applied to the daily papers published in the English language ; for the German Catholics had at the same time five daily papers, expressly established for the defence of Catholic interests and fully under Catholic control. The Weltrundschau iiber die kathol. Presse (" Review of the Catholic Press of the World," Wiirzburg, 1878) enumerates 109 Roman Catholic pa- pers of the United States, of which 36 were published in German, 2 in German as well as in English, 3 in French, 2 in Polish, 1 in Bohemian, and the others in English.