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Show OREGON. Hev P.ertrand Orth. whose appointment appoint-ment as Bishop of Vancouver Island ha been officially announced, was born on Dec. 6, 1848, at Algert, near Cologne. He studied at the University of Cologne, the American College and the University of Lauovin, Belgium. On July 2"). 1872, he was ordained priest at Brussels and immediately started for the mission fields on the shores of the Pacific, taking up the work in Oregon in October of that vear. For many years he was assistant assist-ant at the cathedral in Portland and editor of the Catholic Sentinel. For the last thirteen : years he has had charge of St. Lawrence church, Portland. |