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DIOCESE OF CHATHAM (CHATHAMENSIS)
The Diocese of Chatham comprises the northern half of the Province of New Brunswick,Canada, i.e., the counties of Gloucester, Madawaska, Northumberland, Restigouche,Victoria, and the part of Kent north of the Richibucto River. This territory formerly belonged to the Diocese of St. John, itself originally a portion of the Diocese of Quebec. On 8 May, 1860, the Diocese of St. John was divided, and the present Diocese of Chatham created. The Rev. James Rogers was appointed the firstbishop andconsecrated 15 August in the same year. On his arrival at Chatham, Bishop Rogers found only sevenpriests to attend an immense stretch of country. During his episcopate of forty-two years a wonderful improvement was witnessed, and when he resigned, 7 August, 1902, he left adiocese of 47parishes and 51priests. He died 22 March, 1903. On the resignation of Bishop Rogers, the Rev. Thomas Francis Barry,consecratedtitularBishop ofThugga and Coadjutor of Chatham, on 7 August, 1902, succeeded to the See of Chatham. The steady march of development, facility of communication, and immigration, require the formation of newparishes each year; there are now in the diocese 57 churches with residentpriests and 25 missions with churches. TheCatholic population is about 66,000; a large percentage of which is French Acadian by descent and language. Thesecular clergy number 65priests, with 5theological students, and the regular 31priests and 7 brothers. Sisters, numbering about 200, of several religious congregations, are in charge of various institutions. There are 8parochialschools with about 1000 pupils, one classical college (at Caraquet) for boys, directed by theEudist Fathers, with 130 pupils, and 3schools taught by Sisters under the Government School Law, with about 400 pupils. Twoorphan asylums support 100orphans, and 4hospitals are directed by the HospitalSisters of St. Joseph, among them the governmenthospital forlepers at Tracadie. TheTrappist Fathers and the Trappistine Sisters, expelled fromFrance, have openedmonasteries in theparish of Rogersville.
REDONDO,Historia de la Diocese de Cebú, inGuia Official de Filipinas (1907); BOURNE,The Philippine Islands; The Philippine Commission Reports; The Catholic Directory (Milwaukee. 1908).
APA citation.Hendrick, T.(1908).Chatham. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03642a.htm
MLA citation.Hendrick, Thomas."Chatham."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 3.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1908.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03642a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Marjorie Bravo-Leerabhandh.Dedicated to my parents, Rustico and Monica Bravo.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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