Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals
...rickkenrick/>. Nolan, Hugh J. Francis Patrick Kenrick: Third Bishop of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1948. O'Shea, John J. "Francis Patrick and Peter Richard Kenrick." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08618a.htm>. Archives Archives Select Month April 2024 March 2024 January 2024
A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...c Herald.[11] By the end of Kenrick’s time as bishop in 1851, the diocese had added 80 churches, 90 priests, and 150,000 Catholics from when the diocese was founded in 1808.[12] [1] Thomas Hughes, History of the Society of Jesus in North America vol. II, (London: Longmans, Green and Co,