The Archdiocese of Chicago is an ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States. It was established as a diocese in 1843 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1880. It serves the more than 2.2 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties in the state of Illinois, an area of 1,411 square miles (3,650 km2). The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries.
Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. The diocese was erected by Pope Pius IX on February 17, 1872 and originally comprised the entire state of Rhode Island and the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts. On March 12, 1904, those four counties were separated from the Diocese of Providence to form the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, leaving the Diocese of Providence with just the state of Rhode Island.
William Wakefield Baum was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau (1970–1973) and Archbishop of Washington (1973–1980) before serving in the Roman Curia as Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (1980–1990) and Major Penitentiary (1990–2001). He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1976. At the time of his 1980 appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, he was the highest-ranking American ever in the Church. Cardinal Baum was the longest-serving American cardinal in history.
Edward Abbott was an American minister, journalist, and author.
Campbell Gray was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church. He was the second Bishop of Northern Indiana.
John Punnett Peters was an American Episcopal clergyman and Orientalist.
The Archdiocese of Glasgow is the metropolitan see of the Province of Glasgow in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. The episcopal seat of the developing diocese was established by Saint Kentigern in the 6th century AD. It is one of two Latin Church metropolitan archdioceses of the Roman Catholic Church: the only archdioceses in Scotland. It is the elder of the two bishoprics. Innocent VIII first raised Glasgow a metropolitan archbishopric in 1492. The Metropolis has the dioceses of Motherwell and Paisley as suffragans within the Ecclesiastical Province. The archdiocese is sede vacante as of June 2021.
Henry Horace Pereira was an Anglican suffragan bishop during the first quarter of the 20th century.
John Hudson Peck was the eighth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Isaac Lea Nicholson was an American Episcopal prelate. He was the fifth Bishop of Milwaukee, serving from 1891 until his death.
Abram Newkirk Littlejohn was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island.
Frederick William Taylor was the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy in the Episcopal Church.
Henry Niles Pierce was the diocesan bishop of Arkansas in the Episcopal Church from 1870 until his death in 1899.
Samuel Smith Harris was the second Bishop of Michigan in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
George Freeman Bragg was an African-American priest, journalist, social activist and historian. The twelfth African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States, he worked against racial discrimination and for interracial harmony, both within and outside of his church.
Charles Edward Woodcock was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky from 1905 to 1935. He was consecrated on January 25, 1905.
M. Edward Fawcett was an American prelate who served as the third Bishop of Quincy in the Episcopal Church.
Eva Munson Smith was an American composer, poet, and author. She was the author of Woman in Sacred Song, a representative work of what women have done in hymnology. She was the author of a large number of temperance songs and other works, which became very popular. Her poems appeared in Poets of America and other standard works. Her best known productions were "Woodland Warblings", "American Rifle Team March", and "I Will Not Leave You Comfortless".
