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Show DIOCESE OF CHEYENNE. (Diocesis Cheyennesis.) Established Aug. 9, 1887. Comprises the State of Wyoming. Square miles, 97,575. Right Reverend Thos. M. Lenihan, D.D., Bishop of Cheyenne; consecrated Feb. 24, 1SK7. Residence, Cheyenne, Wyo., St. Mary's cathedral, corner 19th and Ferguson Fergu-son streets. First Bishop Rt. Rev. Maurice F. Burke, D.D., cons. Oct. 28, 1SS7; transferred transfer-red to the See of St. Joseph,. Mo., June 19, 1893. Vicar General Very Rev. H. Cummis-key, Cummis-key, V. G. Res., Laramie, Wyo. Chancellor and Secretary Rev. Peter U. Sasse., res., Cheyenne, Cathedral. Bishop's Council Very Rev. Hugh Cura-misky, Cura-misky, V. G., Laramie; Rev. John Dela-hunty. Dela-hunty. Rock Springs; Rev. M. Ternes, Rawlins; Rev. Peter Casey, Evanston. Procurator Fiscatls Rev. John Dela-hunty, Dela-hunty, Rock Springs. Defensor Matrimonii Rev. M. Ternes, Rawlins. CLERGY, CHURCHES. MISSIONS'AND SCHOOLS. Cheyenne St. Mary's Cathedral, Rt. Rev. Thomas M. Lenihan. D.D., pastor; Rev. Peter U. Sasse, assistant. Convent and Academy of the Sisters of the Holy Child of Jesus. Casper, Natama County St. Anthony of Padua's, Rev. James A. Keating. 4 Evanston, Uinta County St. Mary Magdalen's, Mag-dalen's, Rev. Peter Casey, pastor; mission, mis-sion, Kemmerer, Uinta county, St. Patrick Pat-rick S. t Lander, Fremont County Church of the Immaculate Conception, B. V. M., Rev. Wm. O'Dwyer, pastor; school, Sisters of St. Francis. Laramie, Albany County St. Lawrence O'Toole's, Very Rev. Hugh ,Cummlskey, V. G., pastor; chapel, convent and academy acad-emy of Sisters of Charity. New Castle, Weston County Corpus Christl, Rev. Jules Bigaoutte, pastor. Rawlins, Carbon County St. Joseph's, Rev. M. Ternes, pastor; convent and school in course of erection. Rock Springs, bweetwater County Church of Our Lady of Dolors, Rev. John Delahunty, pastor; convent and school in course of erection; mission. Green River, Sweetwater county, Church of Immaculate Immacu-late Conception. Sheridan. Sheridan County Church of the Holy Name, Rev. Joseph A. Accorsi-ni, Accorsi-ni, pastor; mission, Buffalo, Johnson county, Church of St. John the Baptist; Parkman, church in course of erection St. Stephen's Indian Mission, Shoshone Reservation, Fremont county. Very Rev. Balthazer Feusi, S. J., director; Rev. Frank Sansone, S. J., Socius. There are 1,900 Indians on tho reservation reserva-tion belonging to the Shoshone and Arapahoe Arap-ahoe tribes. Many of them have been bap- i tized and are practical Catholics. The Mission schools are attended by 150 children. The boys are taught by the Jesuit Fathers and the girls by the Sisters Sis-ters .of St. Francis. Tho government pays for 50 pupils and Mother Catherine Drexel for 30 , pupils. The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washington, pays for the others. Mother Catherine Drexel built both the convent and college buildings at a cost of about $50,000. j INSTITUTIONS I NCHARGE OF RELIGIOUS RE-LIGIOUS ORDERS. Cheyenne: Convent end Academy of the Holy Child of Jesus, Rev. Mother M. Gonzaga, superior, fifteen Sisters. Academy and . Boarding School of young-ladfes. conducted bv the Sisters of the Holy Child of Jesus; day scholars, 200; boarders, 25. Laramie City: Convent and Academy of the Sisters of Charity, , Sister M. Constantia, sister-servant; sis-i sis-i ters, five; pupils, 100; St. Joseph's Hospital, Hospi-tal, conducted by Sisters of Charity. Lander: Lan-der: School in charge of Sisters of St. Francis. St. Stephen's Mission: Indian Boarding School; Boys' sool, Jesuit Fathers; Giris' school, Sisters of St. Francis, Mother M. Columwa,. superior; Sisters, 12; pupils, 150. RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN DIOCESE. DIO-CESE. Jesuit Fathers (Rocky Mountain Mission), St. Stephen's; Sisters of the Holy Child of Jesus (Philadelphia. Pa.), Cheyenne; Sisters of Charity (Leavenworth, (Leaven-worth, Kan.), Laramie: Sisters of St. Francis (Pniladelphia, a.), St. Stephens; Steph-ens; Sisters of St. Francts (Philadelphia, Pa.J, Lander. |