Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church
...protests, including occupying buildings to stop demolitions, the State of Pennsylvania was eager to resolve the problem.[8] Officials offered the Archdiocese one million dollars to move the church and also tried to redesign the project to spare the church but such a plan would have left Holy Redeemer isolated from
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...e established. The newly formed Diocese of Philadelphia encompassed all of Pennsylvania and Delaware, and the southern half of New Jersey. Just two years later, the Diocese of Philadelphia had approximately 11 priests, 16 churches and 30,000 Catholics. Archbishop Carroll nominated Reverend Michael Egan as the first bishop of the
Mathew Carey
...84, Carey started a newspaper thanks to a gift of $400 from Lafayette. The Pennsylvania Evening Herald operated as a bi-weekly paper that gained a wide subscriber base because Carey would publish the debates in the PA House Assembly. Two years later, he published American Museum, the second magazine in
James F. Connelly papers, 1790-1974 (MC 67)
...e Theological Seminary of Saint Charles Borromeo, Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832-1979 and The visit of Archbishop Gaetano Bedini to the United States of America, June 1853-February 1854. Connelly also edited The History of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, published in 1976. He also contributed articles to the New Catholic Encyclopedia. Connelly