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the World War the clergy in cooperation with the The Reformed German Church reported in 1916
laity helped the needy of the diocese and several of the on its foreign mission work in Japan and China, 6
clergy received citations. The sixth centenary of the stations, 70 American missionaries, 35 churches,
death of Danke was observed with ffttin^ solemnity 3768 memJoers, 17 schools, 3 hospitals, 1 orphanage,
imder the ausrices of the Catholic Committee led by In the United States the Church reported in 1920,
the Archbishop. 1767 churches, 1260 ministers, 330,000 members
^^^!T^J a^vJ^A ^f^'^^F ""^tS?"^" ^^if \'efoS Churches in the Union of South
l^ih^ P^v^n^^^^^a' k^J^'ii^l'^^^h Africa, according to the census of 1918, had 800,178
?.ri^H.^^^n?h«^R^^^ European constituents (including adherents as
irRfv:^Al?on2l^^^^^^ ::^Z:^r''''''''' ^°' "^^ non.European
Bwhop of Montefcltro 6 December 1896, transferred ^^-^.^ ^^^^^ ^^le (Washington. 1919): Year Book of the
20 December, 1911, SUCCeedmg Mgr. Ranuzzi de CAwrc^ tNew York, annual); Stote«iuxn'« Feor-Boo* (London,
Bianchi, promoted to the titular archdiocese of Tyre. Minual); Kmmb, ProJe«Jonl Hungariana and Epiaeopalians in
On 12 September, 1920, took place the solemn conse- ^"•«^» xxvi (1922). 344. tst a w
cration of the statue of the Blessed Virgin as patroness ^* ^' webbr.
and protectrew of aviators (q. V.) under the titie of Beggio di Calabria, Archdiocese op (Rhbgi-
Our Lady of Loreto, m the pMence of the mihtery nenqis, cf. C. E., XII— 717a), in Calabria, Southern
authonties and a vast throM. It was this statue that i^y ^ g^ill governed by Rt. Rev. Rinaldo CamiUo,
was destroyed m the fire which broke out in tiie Santa Rousset, O.C.D. , who came to the see in 1909 in sue-
Casa dunng the mrfit of 22 februanr, 1921. The session to Cardinal Portanova, deceased. He was
late Holy Father, Pope Ben^ct XV, promised to to^n at Beaulard. Italy, in 1860, entered the Carme-
assistm repairing the damag^ Htes in 1877, ordained m 1884, teld various posts in
the diocese with 26,000 Cathohra, 8 parishes, 40 his order and was elected Bishop of Bagnorea m 1916,
secular and 30 reguto pnwts, a^ churohee or chapels promoted to Reggio after having acted as adminis-
in I^to; 25,000 Cathohcs, 12 parishes, 42 secular Orator apostolic. The statistics for 1920 credit it
and 20 regiJar clenpr, 20 senMnanans, 40 churchy or ^^^x 89 parishes, 12 vicariates, 180 secular and 15
chapek m Recanati. By a decree of the Consistory regular priests, 46 seminarians, 10 Brothers, 60 Sis-
(23 December,, 1916), the Bishop of Loreto was ters, 200 churciies and chapels, and 200,000 CathoUti.
accorded the pnvilege of the palhum. r? i .
i»««4#^ A a r\ n^ Beggio dell'Emllla, Diocese of (Reginensis) ,
Bedfe, Archdiocese of. See Olind a and Recife, g^ff^agan of Modena, in Central Italy. It is under
Hector (cf. C. E., XII-676c).— A priest in charge J^^e administration of Rt. Rev. Eduardo Brettoni, of a church that is neither parochial nor capitular, bom m the diocese of Florence, 1864, who waa nor annexed to the house of a religious community appointed bishop 12 October, 1910. In 1912 a which holds its services there, is called its rector. Eucharistic Congress was held in this diocese. In Rectors are usually appointed by the local ordinary 1013 the diocese lost its vicar general by the death where there is a nght of election or presentation, or of Mgr. Campano. In 1920 the Catholic popula- where the church is imder the control of an exempt tion numbered 175,600, and by 1921 statistics there religious order or congregation, the rector requires the are : 247 parishes, 300 churches, 3 monasteries for ordmary's approbation. In all cases a rector may be men and 3 for women, 407 secular priests, 20 semi- removed by the ordinary at will for just cause, but if naries, about 75 seminarians, 200 Sisters, 1 second- the rector is a religious his superior is to be notified ary school for girls, 1 normal school and 1 profes- of the removal. As a rule the superior of a seminary sional school. Among the charitable institutions or college directed by clerics is rector of any annexed are the diocesan congregation of missionaries, 1 church. Rectors must refrain from actine as parish poor house, 2 communal asylunis, 3 hospitals, and priests, — ^thus they may not hold funenus in their dispensaries for the care of babies. A mutual aid churches; they may be ordered by the local ordinary society is established among the clergy and three to say Mass at a convenient hour, to announce the Catholic periodicals are published, feasts and fasts, and to explain the Gospel and the •» ^ * /t» r r^ catechism, if the parish church is so far away that ^ *?|S*'„,4?P*?^^S=»? ^^l (Reginensis; cf . C. parishioners cannot attend it without great incon-?;,^"r"V,S^'^' *^ Saskatchewan, Canada, erected venience. ^ March, 1910, was raised to metropolitan rank 4
December 1915, with Prince Albert as its suffragan,
Beformed dmrches.— I. The Reformed (Dutch) and Most Rev. Olivier-Elz^ar Mathieu, appointed at
Church in America is a member of the "Alliance the consistory of 9 December, 1915, as its first arch-
of Reformed Churches throughout the World hold- bishop. Bom at St. Roch, Quebec, 24 December,
ing the Presbyterian System," and of the "Council 1353^ he received his degree as doctor of theology in
of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian Quebec in 1878, was ordained 2 June following,
System," which is the American branch of the served as professor of philosophy at the seminary
former. In 1920 this church reported 727 churches, from 1878 to 1911, made doctor of philosophy in
769 ministere and 133,000 members (135,000 in Rome in 1882,prothonotary apostolic 17 June, 1902,
1922). In 1916 the foreign missions reported 29 appointed first Bishop of Regina, 21 July, 1911,
stations, 343 out-stations, 141 missionaries, 61 consecrated 5 November following and accorded the
churches and 6827 members. privilege of the pallium 21 June, 1916. In 1911
II. The Reformed (German) Church in the Bishop Mathieu was appointed fellow of the Order
United States, is also a member of the Presbyterian of St. Michael and St. George by Edward VII; he
Alliance and Council. This church has recently had been previously honored in 1902, by being named
sought, without success, to effect a union with the an officer of public instruction and chevalier of the
Presbyterians and with the Reformed Dutch Legion of honor.
Church. The Hungarian Reformed Church in 1922 According to 1922 statistics there are in the arch- entered into an agreement with the Protestant diocese, 79 parishes, 130 churches, 140 missions, 90 Episcopal Church, whereby its ministers may ac- stations, 20 parishes served by religious, 20 convente cept ordination from the latter, without repudiat- for women, 71 secular and 50 regular priests, 3 ing their existing orders. brothers, 235 nuns, 10 seminarians, 2 classical col-
