Parish and School Closing
...vey_724J_046 Halvey_724J_041 Schools Affected In addition to parishes, a number of high schools were also slated to close, such as St. James High School for Boys in Chester, or merge, such as Bishop Conwell H.S. in Levittown and Bishop Egan H.S. in Fairless Hills. Other schools originally considered for
Archbishop Ryan
...s mark on the development of Catholicism in the United States as well as a lasting legacy on the history of Philadelphia. [1] 100,000 Pass His Bier: Imposing Obsequies, Catholic Standard and Times, February 18, 1911 [1] Patrick Ryan, Archbishop Patrick John Ryan: His Life and Times, Ireland
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...ith Father Louis de Barth. (Father de Barth, a life-long friend of Bishop Egan, would eventually succeed Egan as administrator of the Philadelphia Diocese until its second bishop, Henry Conwell, was appointed in 1820.) Father Egan’s excellent reputation for preaching greatly appealed to the prestigious congregation of Saint Mary’s in
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the