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separate from Mauritius. In August following, Pat- rick Raymond Griffith, O.P., was consecrated Bishop of Paleopolis, in the church of St. Andrew, Dublin; and on 20 April, 1838, he set foot in Cape Town with Fathers Burke and Corcoran. After his first visita- tion, which was made chiefly in the labouring ox- waggon, and extended as far as Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown, he estimated the Catholic population of the country at 500. Worse than the paucity of numbers, w-ere the lax morality and poor Catholic spirit of so many. A first painful duty of the bishop was to depose a body of churchwardens, who claimed to act as a board of directors of the vicariate. Some seceded, but this prompt action restored peace and Catholic order. In 1851 he completed the fine church which is still the cathedral of Cape Town. At his death in 1862 his flock was united and no longer ashamed of their faith, several schools and churches having been established throughout the vicariate.

Dr. Griraley was appointed coadjutor to the first vicar Apostolic in 1861, and succeeded him in 1862. He brought out the Dominican Sisters and Marist Brothers; and died in 1871, just after his return from the Vatican Council. The name which is connected with the greatest progress of the Western vicariate is that of the Right Rev. John Leonard, D.D., who was curate at Blanchardstown, Dublin, when ap- pointed to succeed Dr. Grimley. Nearly all the works recorded in the next paragraph were accomplished during his episcopate of thirty-five years. He was succeeded in 1907, the year of his death, by the Right Rev. John Rooney, who had been his coadjutor for twenty-one years.

There are 3.3 priests in the Western vicariate, of whom three are regulars (Salesians). Out of 153 religious, 28 are Marist Brothers and Salesians; the rest are nuns — Dominicans, Sisters of Nazareth, and Sisters of the Holy Cross. There are 19 churches, 10 convents, an orphanage, an industrial school and 29 elementary schools. The only organ of Catholic opinion in South Africa is the Catholic Magazine for South Africa, founded in 1891 by Rev. Dr. Kolbe, now edited by the present writer. The Catholic popula- tion of the vicariate is over 8000 — mostly of European descent.

Theal, HUlorii of South Africa (London. 1903); Wilmot. Life of Dr. Ricards (Cape Town, 1908); South African Catholic Alagazine, passim; Catholic Directon/ of British South Africa (dape Town, annually); Ricards, The Catholic Church and the Kafir.

Sidney R. Welch.

Goodman, Godfrey; b. at Ruthin, Denbighshire, 28 February, 1582-3; d. at Westminster, 19 January, 1656. He was Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, and passed all his public life in the Protestant Church. His religious sympathies, however, inclined him to the old Faitli, and when misfortune and ruin overtook him, late in life, he entere<t its fold. He was the son of (iodfrey Goodman and his wife, Jane Croxton, landed gentry living in Wales. In 1593 he was sent to Westminster School, where he remained seven years under the protection of his uncle, Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster. He was an earnest student

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and when only seventeen won a scholarship in Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated there in 1604 and was ordained at Bangor, Wales, shortly after. His first appointment was to the rectory of Stapleford Ab- bots, Essex, in 1606. From this time ecclesiastical dignities and lucrative emoluments fell rapidly to his share. He was made successively prebend of West- minster 1607, rector of West Ilsley, Berks, 1616, rector of Kennerton, Gloucester, canon of Windsor, 1617, Dean of Rochester, 1620-1, and finally Bishop of Glou- cester, 1624-5. In addition he held two livings in Wales, at Llandyssil and Llanarmon. Even when he was a bishop, he was allowed to retain most of these appointments. He became one of the Court preach- ers and was chaplain to Queen Anne, wife of James I. His leaning towards Catholicity made enemies for him at Windsor and he was reprimanded by the king on two occasions for the views he put forward in his Court sermons. A few years later he was severely blamed for having erected a crucifix at Windsor and used altar-clnths worked with a cross in his own ca- thedral at Gloucester, and further for hav- ing suspended a min- ister who insisted on preaching " that all who die papists go inevitably to hell". It is likely that at this time doubts were aris- ing in his mind about the legitimacy of the separation from Rome, and he sought the society of the Catholic priests who were in hidingthrough- out the country. He was frequently at var- iance with Archbishop Laud, and in 1640 re- fused on conscientious grounds to sign the seventeen Articles drawn up by him. He

was thereupon arrested, but after five weeks in prison he overcame his scruples. This, however, availed him little, as he was soon impeached by Parliament along with Laud and the ten other signatories of the Articles and was sent to prison for four months. In 1643 his episcopal palace was pillaged by the parliamentarian soldiers and in a year or two he was stripped of all his emoluments. He withdrew now from public life to his small Welsh estate in Carnarvon. It was at this time too, most likely, that he was converted. About 1650 he came to London, and gave himself up to study and research; he was befriended by some Catholic royalists and lived in close connexion with them till his death in 1656. Father Davenport, O.S.F., former chaplain to Queen Henrietta, was his confessor and attended him in his last illness. By his will, in which he made a profession of his Catholic Faith, he left most of his property to Ruthin his native town; his manuscripts and books, however, were given to Trinity College, Cambridge. His contemporaries describe him as being a hospitable, quiet man, and lavish in his charity to the poor.

His principal works are: (1) "The Fall of Man, or the Corruption of Nature proved by the light of his Natural Hrason" (1616); (2) An account of his suf- ferings, 1650; (3) "The two mysteries of the Christian Religion, the Trinity and the Inciniation, explicated" (16.53); (4) "Arguments and animadversions on Dr. George Ilakewil's Apology"; (5) "The Creatures prays- ing God" (1622); (0) "The Court of King James the First by Sir A. W. reviewed".

OiLLow, Diet. Cath. Biog., s. v.; Fulleh, The History of the