. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. Pittsburgh ; Byrne, of LittleRock; Quarter, of Chicago ; McCloskey, of Axiern,Coadjutor of New York ; Tyler, of Hartford, andReynolds, of Charleston. The first session on Sunday, May 10, was attendedalso by Rt. Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, Bishop of Phila-delphia ; Rt. Rev. John M. Henni, Bishop of Mil-waukee ; Rt. Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick, Bishop ofCallipolis and Coadjutor of Boston. In the Councilsat the heads of the religious orders in the country :Very Rev. John Timon, Superior of the Congregationof the Mission ; Very Rev. Peter Czackert,
. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. Pittsburgh ; Byrne, of LittleRock; Quarter, of Chicago ; McCloskey, of Axiern,Coadjutor of New York ; Tyler, of Hartford, andReynolds, of Charleston. The first session on Sunday, May 10, was attendedalso by Rt. Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, Bishop of Phila-delphia ; Rt. Rev. John M. Henni, Bishop of Mil-waukee ; Rt. Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick, Bishop ofCallipolis and Coadjutor of Boston. In the Councilsat the heads of the religious orders in the country :Very Rev. John Timon, Superior of the Congregationof the Mission ; Very Rev. Peter Czackert, Superior ofthe Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ; VeryRev. George A. Wilson, Provincial of the Order ofPreachers ; Very Rev. Peter J. Verhaegen, Provincialof the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus;Very Rev. James O. Van de Velde, Vice-Provincial ofthe same society in Missouri ; and by the Rev. , Rev. H. B. Coskery, and Charles I. Whiteas theologians of the Metropolitan Church. Togratify a pious desire pervading the whole United. 30 THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. States, the Fathers of the Council petitioned theSovereign Pontiff to ratify their choice of the BlessedVirgin Mary, conceived without sin, as Patroness ofthe United States, and to transfer the solemnizationof the feast to the following Sunday. The progress of the Church, as has been seen, wasmainly between New England and Maryland, movingwestward. New York, with part of New Jersey, hadhitherto been one diocese, and Ohio another. Theformer, at the commencement of the year 1846, con-tained a Catholic population of 200,000, with 109priests and 114 churches. Bishop Hughes, believingthat by the erection of new sees more good could beeffected, solicited, at this Council, the establishment ofa bishopric at Albany and another at Buffalo.* Withthe same view. Bishop Purcell, who had in his diocese60 priests and 70 churches, with 65,000 Catholics, be-lieved that a bishop at Cleveland could more effectu-al
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