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gium, 10 June, 1865 and returning to the United States was appointed professor of theology at the Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago. Later he served as pastor at Johet, Illinois, and in Chicago. At the out- set of his administration he made the cause of Cath- lic education his special endeavour. There had been two earlier attempts to carry on a diocesan seminary. One had failed for lack of teachers, the other for want of pupils. In 1SS4 Archbishop Riordan made an ap- peal for a new seminar^-, and Mrs. Kate Johnson gave him SO acres of fine land at Mcnlo Park. Here St. Patrick's Seminary, a large and elaborate building was erected and he gave its management to the Sul- picians. In Aug., 1887 he encouraged the Religious of the Sacred Heart, who had come into the diocese in 1SS2, to begin their academy in the city and develop it into the flourishing institute that was transferred to Menlo Park in August, 1898. The Brothers of the Christian Schools in 1889 moved their St. Mary's Col- lege from Bornal Heights to Oakland. The college was start?d by the Reverend James Croke, V.G., in 1863, and for five years was managed b}^ secular priests and laymen. In 1868 seven Brothers from New York under Brother Justin took over the care of the college, which was chartered by the State in 1872. The Brothers also started their Sacred Heart College in 1878.

Archbishop Riordan brought in the Salesian Fathers to take care of the Italians in 1888, Father O. Franchi, a Genoese, being the first to arrive. In 1893 the}' were also given charge of the Portuguese colonj^ in Oakland. The Pauhst Congregation of New York were also invited into the diocese and given charge of old St. Mary's Church. The archbishop took up the claim on Mexico for the arrears of the Pious Fund of the Californias (q. v.) due the diocese, and prosecuted it to a successful i.ssue before the International Ar- bitration Tribunal at the Hague, where it was the first case tried. He was a delegate to the Hague in 1902. The English Capuchins were given charge of the scat- tered missions along the coast of Mendocino in Au- gust, 1903. In 1905 the archbishop presided over the golden jubilee of St. Ignatius's College and Church, which had been founded at San FrancLsco in 1855 by Father Anthonj' Marasclii, S J.

As his health failed .\rchbishop Riordan requested the appointment of a coadjutor, and the Right Rev. George Montgomery, Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, was elevated to the titular Archbishopric of Osino and made his coadjutor in January, 1903. He was born in Da vies County, Kentucky, 30 Dec, 1847, and was ordained priest at Baltimore 20 Dec, 1879. He was chancellor of the .Archdiocese of San lYancisco when he was chosen for the See ot Monterey, in which diocese his administration was most successful, espe- cially in defending the rights of the CathoHc Indians. He had just s-ttled down as iVrchbishop Riordan'a assistant, and that prelate h;ui started on a tour for recuperation, when San Francisco was visited by the terrible calamity of the earthquake of 20 April, 1906, and its .subsequent fire. Twelve churches were burned and their parishes absolutely wiped out of existence. In the burned district, along with the churches all the institutions, schools, asylums, hospitals, the great Jes- uit church and College of St. Ignatius, and the Sacred Hf^rt College of the Christian Brothers — were de- stroyed. Four churches in the city were wrecked by the earthquake, and others, including the catliedral and St. Patrick's Seminary at Menlo Park, more or less damaged. Happily no lives of priests, re- ligious, or of children in their care were sacrificed. Archbishop Montgomery took a prominent and very active part in the rescue work that began at once, and Archbishop Riordan returned to the city and commenced the gigantic task of restoration which was rapidly accomplished in two or three years, aided by the generosity of the Catholic congregations

of the United States, who sent more than $300,000 at once to the stricken diocese; this great exertion, how- ever, had a debilitating effect on Archbishop Mont- gomery, who d. 10 Jan., 1907 (gee Monterey and Los Angeles, Diocese of).

On 24 Dec, 1908 Bishop Denis J. O'Connell was appointed auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco. Bishop O'Connell was born at Donoughmore, Co. Cork, Ire- land, 2S Jan., 1849, and made his studies at the Amer- can College, Rome. After his ordination he carried the decrees of the last Plenary Council of Baltimore to Rome, and returned as secretary to Bishop Conroy, ablegate to Canada. He was made a domestic prel- ate 20 March, 1887, and rector of the American Col- lege, Rome, after the death of Mgr. Hostlot in 1884, and held that office until July, 1895, when he resigned, and acted as the vicar of Cardinal Gibbons for his titular church, S. Maria in Trastevere, Rome. He was appointed rector of the Cathohc University, Washington, in 1903; on 3 May, 1908 was consecrated titular Bishop of Sebaste; and on 24 Dec, 1908 was ap- pointed auxiliai-y Bishop of San Francisco. On 19 Jan., 1912 he was transferred from San Francisco to Richmond, Virginia, as successor to Bishop van de Vyver.

Statistics. The following religious are now estab- lished in the archdiocese (1911): Men — Capuchin Fathers (Province of England), Mendocino; Ukiah. Dominican Fathers (Western Province), St. Dom- inic's, San Francisco; Antioch; Benicia; Martinez; VaUejo; Valona. Fathers of the Sacred Hearts (Bel- gium), Olema. Franciscan Fathers (St. Louis Prov- ince), St. Anthony's, St. Boniface's and Franciscan Monastery, San Francisco; St. Elizabeth's, Fruitvale; St. Turibius, Kelseyville, Lake Co. Jesuit Fathers (Cahfornia Province), St. Ignatius's Church and Col- lege, San Francisco; Los Gatos; San Jose; Santa Clara. Marist Fathers (American Province), Notre Dame, San Francisco. Paulist Fathers (New York), St. Mary's, San Francisco. Salesian Fathers from Turin, Italy, for the Italians, Sts. Peter and Paul, Cor- pus Christi Chvuch, San Francisco; St. Joseph's Church (for the Portuguese), Oakland. Sulpician Fathers, St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park. Chris- tian Brothers (Province of San Francisco), Sacred Heart College, St. Peter's School, San Francisco; Martinez; St. Mary's College, St. Patrick's School, Oakland; St. Anthony's School, East Oakland; St. Joseph's Academy, Berkeley; St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, St. Vincent. Brothers of Mary (Eastern Province), St. James's and St. Joseph's Schools, San Francisco; Stockton; St. Joseph's School, San Jos6; Agricultural School, Rutherford.

VVomen: — Sisters of Charity (St. Louis, Missouri), Orphan Asylum, Infant Asylum, Technical and St. Vincent's Schools, Mary's Help Hospital, San P'ran- cisco; O'Connor Sanitaiiuin, San Jos6. Sisters of Charity of the Blessed \irgin Mary (Dubuque, Iowa), St. Bridget's School, San Francisco; Petaluma. Sis- ters of St. Dominic (Mission San Jos6, California), Immaculate Conception Academy; St. Anthony's and St. Boniface's School, San Francisco; Fruitvale; Mis- sion San Jo.se; l^kiah. Si.sters of St. Dominic (San Rafafil, California), Academy, San Rafael; St. Rose's Academy, St. Dominic's and Sacred Heart Schools, San Francisco; San Leandro; Stockton; Vallejo; Academy and School, Benicia, Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart (Joiiet, Illinois), St. Joseph's Hos- pital, San Francisco. Sisters of the Holy Cross (Notre Dame, Indiana), St. Cliarles's School, San Francisco. Sisters of the Holy I'aniily (Sun Fran- cisco), San Jos6; Oakland. Sisten-s of t lie 1 loly Names of Jesus and Mary (Hochelaga, Montreal, Province of Quebec), St. JoH(![)h's, San Francisco; Convent of the Holy Names, Immaculate Conception School, St. Francis de Sales School, Sacred Heart School, Oak- land. Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (I^s An-