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...present there are only two American cardinals ? Archbishops O'Connell of Boston and Dougherty of Philadelphia. The first American cardinal was John McCloskey of New York. The greatest was James Gibbons of Baltimore. The other two were Archbishop Farley of New York, predecessor of Archbishop Hayes? and Mgr. Falconio, Apostolic delegate to Washington, a naturalized American...
...Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco is made a Prince of the Church, it will be an election of wide popularity in California, as Mgr. Hanna has made himself one of the most admired citizens of the State, and has served in many civil capacities. He was, for example, appointed Commissioner of Immigration. Born in Rochester, N, Y., he was educated abroad at Cambridge, Munich and Rome. When he was first nominated for Coadjutor Bishop of San Francisco, Pope Pius X refused to confirm the appointment, suspecting Hanna of "modernism," but finally, in 1915, Hanna was consecrated Archbishop of San Francisco...
Patrick Joseph Hayes, Archbishop of New York since 1919, is distinguished for his work as Catholic chaplain bishop for the U. S. Army and Navy during the War. He it is who now sits in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral when a great parade sweeps up Fifth Avenue. Mgr. Hayes has been in, and of New York, all his life...
...Archbishop of Chicago? George Mundelein?was also associated with New York from the time of his birth. He served many years as Bishop of Brooklyn. Although the Archbishop's red-brick residence is a landmark in Chicago, Mgr. Mundelein has confined himself almost exclusively to matters purely ecclesiastical and intellectual...
Hitherto the position has been claimed by Mgr. Platon, who was appointed by the recently unfrocked Tikhon and proclaimed by a council sitting in Pittsburgh...