Cardinal Dougherty and His Golden Jubilee
...he parade route was laid out, with multiple parish groups starting on East-West streets and converging on Broad Street where they would then march to the stadium in South Philadelphia.[12]As the day approached, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that 100,000 were expected to attend the Mass and many dignitaries would be
Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop
...parish schools were erected, especially ethnic parishes for the increasing number of southern Italian and Eastern European immigrants. Three Italian parishes in the city alone, including St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Our Lady of Pompeii, and Our Lady of Consolation, were established during Prendergast’s brief tenure. St. Nicholas of Tolentine
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
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...s of trusteeism and the extremely public nature of the conflict. This upheaval in the Philadelphia church persisted even after the death of Philadelphia’s first bishop on July 22, 1814, at age 53. The See remained vacant for the next six years, until Philadelphia’s second bishop, Henry Conwell, was appointed.