Kenrick, Archbishop Peter Richard, St. Louis, Missouri, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1857 April 4

The Cardinal Prefect has directed that a certain decree of the late Provincial Council of St. Louis be amended agreeably to the judgment of the Sacred Congregation. Kenrick encloses a copy of the decree as amended no enclosure. Father James Duggan has been appointed Kenrick's coadjutor and will be consecrated on the 3rd Sunday after Easter. Father Timothy Clement Smyth Smith has been named coadjutor of Dubuque. Father Henry Damien Juncker of Dayton has been named Bishop of Alton to which place the see of Quincy has been transferred. Nebraska has been made a separate vicariate but no Vicar Apostolic appointed. Kenrick is directed to prepare new names for that place. In the meantime the care of it is given to Bishop John Baptist Miége who remains Vicar Apostolic, no doubt he having opposed the erection of a see of Leavenworth. Prairie du Chien has not been made a see. :: VI-1-l A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.