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Catholic Church -- Bishops

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Diocese of Erie Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: DER
Scope and Content Cash book for St. Patrick's Church, Erie, 1849-1864; fragment of a note signed by Tobias Mullen, third bishop of Erie. Also clippings, including one about the diocese of Erie as it was in 1838; four regarding the life and death of Thomas Carroll, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Oil City, Pennsylvania, and benefactor of the University of Notre Dame through his donation for the construction of the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and through a bequest from his estate; and others...
Dates: 1849-1954.

Edmund B. Kilroy Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: KIL
Scope and Content

Papers and correspondence from members of the American and Canadian hierarchy including Maurice de Saint-Palais, bishop of Vincennes; John Henry Luers, bishop of Fort Wayne; John Walsh, bishop of London (Ontario); and Fergus P. McEvay, bishop of London (Ontario).

Dates: 1857-1900.

Felix Klein Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: FKL
Scope and Content

Correspondence with James Cardinal Gibbons, bishops John Ireland, John J. Keane, Denis O'Connell, and John Lancaster Spalding, and others, much of it concerning Americanism; also notes, clippings, pamphlets, drafts, and photographs.

Dates: 1889-1925 bulk 1897-1904.

John Francis O'Hara Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: OHA
Scope and Content Correspondence, 1908-1960; sermons, lectures and editorials by O'Hara; clippings about him; notes taken by him; class records, 1917-1931; excerpts from the diary of his sister Elizabeth O'Hara, 1940-1951; correspondence, press releases, and clippings concerning his role as military delegate of the armed forces of the United States, 1940-1945; photographs, pamphlets, and medals. Also microfilm of clippings concerning Theodore Roosevelt's trip to South America with John A. Zahm,...
Dates: 1900s-1960s

John Ireland Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: IRE
Scope and Content

Correspondence and related papers of John Ireland; scrapbooks; and supplementary papers including Denis O'Connell letters. For a more detailed description, see Guide to a Microfilm Edition of The John Ireland Papers by Scott Jessee (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984).

Dates: 1825-1948.

John Joseph Fallon Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: FAL
Scope and Content

Correspondence, minutes of meetings of the board of directors, publicity material and financial statements, reports of the editor and publisher, and printed material; concerning the early years of the National Catholic Reporter and its controversial coverage of the Vietnam war, civil disobedience, the Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control, priestly celibacy, and the hierarchy of the church.

Dates: 1964-1968.

Newspaper Special Issues Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: NSI
Scope and Content

Special issues of newspapers, most of the Catholic, celebrating anniversaries of dioceses, bishops, and newspapers, or dealing with some special event or holiday.

Dates: 1887-1994

Venerable English College (Rome, Italy) Correspondence

 Fonds
Identifier: ENC
Scope and Content

Letters from members of the American Catholic hierarchy to the Rectors of the English College in Rome, who acted as their agents; letters from bishops Henry Conwell, Ambrose Marechal, James Whitfield, Samuel Eccleston, and Edward Fenwick, and from Father Gabriel Richard; letters to rectors Robert Gradwell and Nicholas Patrick Wiseman.

In English, Latin, French, and Italian.

Dates: 1821-1835.