Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — RT. REV. PETER RICHARD KENRICK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RT. REV. PETER RICHARD KENRICK.

AFTER serving sixty-three years as a priest, fifty-four years as bishop and since 1847 as metropolitan of the archdiocese of St Louis, Rt Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick has been retired. Kenrick has been called the Richelieu of the American Church. He was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 17, 1806, being a younger brother of the late Rt Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick, archbishop of Baltimore, one of the ablest theologians this country has produced. Educated in Maynooth, Peter Richard Kenrick was ordained as a priest March 6,1832. After a year spent as a curate In Rathmlne, his learned brother, then coadjutor bishop of Philadelphia, induced him to come to this country, and in October, 1533, he settled in Philadelphia, where he took charge of the theological seminary of the diocese. Bishop Rosatl, of

St. Louis, feeling the need of a coadjutor, went to Philadelphia to consult with the bishop of that city on the subject. While there he made the acquaintance of Father Kenrick and was so favorably impressed with thfi young priest that he petitioned Rome for his appointment and was pleased to find his petition granted. Father Kenrick was consecrated Nov. 80, 1841, titular bishop of Drasa in partibus and coadjutor of St. Louis. On the death of Bishop Rosati in 1843 Dr. Kenrick succeeded to the office and when in 1847 St Louis was erected into an archiepiscopal see he became metropolitan. Bishop John Joseph Kaln, who becbdMV bis successor, was appointed coadjutor to Archbishop Kenrick in May, 1893. He is 54 years old, was bora in Martinsburg, W. Va., and was ordained to the priesthood in 1863.