p. 10 | BISHOP OF PORTO RICO by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

BISHOP OF PORTO RICO.

By Editor

A DESPATCH from New Orleans says that Archbishop Chapelle has been officially informed by his eminence, Cardinal Rampola, secretary of State of Pope Leo XIII., that the holy father had graciously granted the archbishop's request concerning the Episcopal see of Porto Rico, by appointing the Very Rev. James H. Blenk, S. M., of New Orleans, to fill it. Father Blenk was chosen by the archbishop as auditor of the delegation to Cuba and Porto Rico, and he was recommended by the archbishop for the latter island because he deemed him the most suitable clergyman he knew to occupy that ancient see in the present circumstances. During his stay last winter in the island of Porto Rico, Father Blenk gave such proofs of wisdom, Catholic zeal, self-restraint and patriotism, that the archbishop thought he was rendering a most signal service to the church and to the United States by recommending him as the first bishop of Porto Rico under the new order of things. —Catholic Mirror, April 29, 1899.

But what should the United States have to do with the appointment of Catholic bishops?