MILWAUKEE, ARCHDIOCESE OF. - In the State of Wisconsin (from the Algonquian "good land"; U.S.A.), of which it today comprises 10 counties. It was erected by Pope Gregory XVI with the apostolic letter Apostolatus officium of 28 Nov. 1843. It then comprised the whole State of Wisconsin and the western part of Minnesota. On 12 Feb. 1875 it was elevated to an archdiocese, and it has as suffragans the dioceses of Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison and Superior.
According to the 1950 census, the total population of the archdiocese is 1,435,345, of whom (1951) 434,345 are Catholics. The priests number 971 (among whom 344 belong to 22 different Congregations) and exercise their ministry in 263 parishes and 37 chapels. There are also 2 seminaries, 11 scholasticates, 7 colleges and universities, 13 general hospitals and 6 specialized hospitals and sanatoria. The female Congregations number 34.
The first to celebrate Mass in the territory of M. was the priest J. Bonduel, a missionary of Green Bay; the first bishop was Msgr. G. Martin Henni, a native of Switzerland. Under his guidance the number of Catholics, for the most part immigrants from Germany and Ireland, increased considerably. In 1856, the Rev. Joseph Salzmann founded in M. the Seminary of St. Francis de Sales and in 1871 opened the first Catholic normal school of the United States. The Jesuit fathers inaugurated, in 1880, their college which later became the flourishing Marquette University. Msgr. Henni died on 7 Sept. 1881 and deserved the title of "Patriarch of the North-West."
Bibliography3 worksJ. G. Shea, A History of the catholic church of the United States..., IV, New York 1892, pp. 36, 250-57, 637-41; I. Rainer, s. v. in Cath. E
BIBL.: J. G. Shea, A History of the catholic church of the United States..., IV, New York 1892, pp. 36, 250-57, 637-41; I. Rainer, s. v. in Cath. Enc., X, pp. 319-21; The Official catholic directory 1930, New York 1930, pp. 98-106.
Carrière, Gastone. “Milwaukee, arcidiocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 1014–1015. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/milwaukee-arcidiocesi-di.
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Carrière, Gastone. “Milwaukee, arcidiocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1014–1015. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/milwaukee-arcidiocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_milwaukee_arcidiocesi_di,
author = {Carrière, Gastone},
title = {Milwaukee, arcidiocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1014--1015},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/milwaukee-arcidiocesi-di}
}
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