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(OREGONOPOLITAN).
Includes that part of the state ofOregon west of the Cascade Mountains, being bounded on the east by the counties of Wasco, Crook, and Klamath. It comprises an area of 21,398 square miles. By anindult of theHoly Seedated 28 February, 1836, the Oregon Country north of the American line was annexed to thevicariate Apostolic of Mgr Provencher of Red River. By letters of 17 April, 1838,Rev. F.N. Blanchet was appointedvicar-general to theArchbishop of Quebec and assigned to theOregon mission. Thevicar-general established his first mission at St. Paul on the Willamette, and on 6 January, 1839, dedicated at that place the firstCatholic church inOregon. The church had been constructed three years earlier by theCanadian settlers who had anticipated the coming of a missionary among them.
As the line of demarcation between British and American territory was still undecided, and missionarypriests had been sent into the country both fromCanada and from theUnited States (De Smet had come from St. Louis),Oregon became a joint mission depending upon the Bishops of Quebec andBaltimore. At the suggestion of thesebishops, the mission was erected in avicariate Apostolic by a brief of 1 December, 1843. On 24 July, 1846, the vicariate was transformed into a province comprising the Archdiocese of Oregon City and the Dioceses of Walla Walla and Vancouver's Island. With the transfer of the See of Walla Walla to Nesqually (1848), the northern boundary of the Archdiocese of Oregon City was fixed at the Columbia River and the 46° lat. This territory was diminished by the erection of the Vicariate ofIdaho (1868) and finally received its present limits by the erection of theDiocese of Baker City (1903).
Bishops:
Statistics for 1909:diocesanpriests, 50;priests of rel. orders, 40; colleges, 3; secondaryschools, 12; elementaryschools, 35; pupils, 5500.
BLANCHET, Historical Sketches (Portland, 1870); The Catholic Sentinel (Portland, 1870-1910), files; Catholic Directory; Diocesan Archives.
APA citation.O'Hara, E.(1911).Archdiocese of Oregon City. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11293a.htm
MLA citation.O'Hara, Edwin."Archdiocese of Oregon City."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 11.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1911.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11293a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Thomas M. Barrett.Dedicated to the past, present, and future parishioners of St. Peter Parish (Portland).
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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