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Sulpicians at Montreal and was ordained Dec. 12, 1873, by Bishop Bourget. He was assistant pastor at St. John's church, Worcester, Mass., from Jan. 1, 1873, until 1880, and rector of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Worcester, Mass., from 1880 until Jan. 10, 1896. While at Worcester he was a representative citizen, occupying many

official positions to which he was elect- ed by the council, and published and edited a monthly magazine called the Catholic School and Home Marja- zine. He was prom- inently identified with the Catholic total abstinence union and for sev- eral years was its president. He was always a leader in movements for the betterment of the people of Ireland, as also in every good cause. In 1889 the University of Georgetown conferred upon him the degree of D.D. In 1893 he assisted in founding the Catholic summer school at Plattsburg, N.Y., and for four years was its president. On Oct. 33, 1896, he was chosen by the bishops of his church and appointed by Pope Leo XIII. to succeed the Right Rev. John J. Keane as rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., a graduate insti- tution for both clerical and lay students. The Third plenary council of Baltimore in 1884 de- cided upon its establishment and it was incor-

porated in 1885 and canonically approved by Pope Leo XIII. in 1887. The Caldwell hall of divinity, the gift of Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, was opened in 1889, and McMahon hall, the gift of Monsignor James McMahon, in 1895. The uni-

versitj' was provided with three faculties : divin- ity, philosopliy, and law. On June 37, 1897, the Pope made Rector Conaty a domestic prelate of the pontifical household, with the title of Mon- signor, and he was invested in the purple at the meeting of the bishops in October. 1897. He published a work for parochial and Sunday schools entitled New Testament Studies (1898). He resigned the rectorship in 1903.

CONCANNEN, Richard Luke, R.C. bishop, was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, prob- ably in 1740. He left Ireland when quite a young man and was next heard from in Rome, where he was ordained at the Lateran basilica by Mgr. Francesco Matthejo, Patriarch of Alex- andria, Dec. 33, 1770; was examined and approved in morib^is ad confcssiones, Feb. 16, 1773 ; made master of novices at SS. Sixtus and Clementi, March 17; appointed sub-prior September 36; prior and regent of schools, June 20, 1781 ; prior for the second time, June 30, 1784 ; pro socius of the master general, also theologian of the Cassan- atensian library and magister-general of the Irish clergy in January, 1779. He was consecrated as first bishop of New York in the church of St. Catharine of Sienna, Rome, April 34, 1808. by Cardinal Michele de Pietro, after having declined the appointment of Bishop of Kihnacduagh, Ire- land, by brief of Nov. 19, 1798, and his resignation was accepted by the Pope in audience at Venice May 15, 1800. He had already taken a lively interest in the missions of the Dominicans in America and had been active in aiding the founding of the Dominican convent of St. Rose in Kentucky, which institution he sustained by his personal contributions through his life. The Pope commissioned him to carry the pallium to Archbishop Carroll, and on attempting to sail from Leghorn he was prevented by the condition of political affairs. He then went to Naples to take ship for America, when he was arrested by order of Murat, who charged him with being a British subject, and he was imprisoned in the convent of St. Dominec, Naples, Italy, where his hardships and disappointment caused his death on June 18, 1810.

CONDE, Daniel Toll, clergyman, was born in Charlton, N.Y., Feb. 3, 1807; a descendant on his father's side from a Huguenot family, and on his mother's, from the Tolls of Holland. He was graduated from Union in 1831 and for two years was a teacher of Latin and Greek in the Kinderhook (N.Y.) academy for boys. In 1834 he was graduated from the Auburn theological seminary. He was ordained at Fredonia, N.Y., by the Presbytery of Buffalo, Sept. 7, 1836, and became a missionary in the Sandwich islands. He was stationed at Eastern Maui, 1836-47, and at Wailuku, 1847-56. On his return to th«