Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals

...ev. Francis Patrick Kenrick, Administrator and Bishop of Philadelphia, 1831-1852, Later Archbishop of Baltimore. Trans. Francis Edward Tourscher. Lancaster: Wickersham Printing Co., 1916. The Kenrick-Frenaye Correspondence: Letters chiefly of Francis Patrick Kenrick and Marc Antony Frenaye Selected from the Cathedral Archives, Philadelphia. Trans. Francis Edward Tourscher. Philadelphia: Wickersham Printing Company,

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Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs

...Friends of Old St. Thomas. "Ivy Mills/Saint Thomas Guide Book." March 2012, 6, PH171 [4] Sister William Josephine Ludwick, "The Early History of St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Chester Heights, 1729-1900,” PH171 [5] Ciaudelli, Reverend Louis P. "St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, Ivy Mills, Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, 1729 – 1979,”

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Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools

...: Box 1,Folder 1. [10] IC108, Hallahan: The Story of Fifty Years, 1901-1951, 18-19. [11] Catholic Standard and Times. September 14, 1989, A9. [12] Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Office of the Superintendent of Schools: Report to the Community: Catholic Secondary education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, P016.070. Archives Archives Select Month

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Archbishop John Carroll

...ld return to American in 1774 and quickly became involved in the Revolution, accompanying his cousin, Charles Carroll, and Benjamin Franklin on a diplomatic mission to Montreal in 1776.[4] After the war, Catholics in the newly formed United States wished to have a separate jurisdiction created so that they would

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