Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1879 — Roman Catholic Figures. [ARTICLE]

Roman Catholic Figures.

“ Sadler’s Catholic Directory ” re" ports for the United States, 1 Cardinal, 11 Archbishops, 52 Bishops, 5,750 priests, 5,589 churches, 78 colleges, 577 academies, nearly 2,000 parochial schools, 345 charitable institutions, and a Catholic population of 6,375,000. In 1808 there were only 80 churches; in 1830 there were 230; in 1840, 454; in 1850,1,073; in 1860, 2,385; in 1870, 3,995. The Tablet says more churches were admit-

ted in 1878 than there were in the whole country in 1845, when there were 675. That paper also remarks of the statistics that they “ are not always as clear as might be desired. In some dioceses chapels are counted with churches; in others with stations, which seems a less accurate way; in some cases where a theological seminary and college are combined, as at Emittsburg, the institution will be returned as a college, and not as a seminary also; in some returns scholasticates and houses of study of religous orders are included under seminaries, while others do not reckon them under this head.”