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Thursday, November 23, 2000
Milestones along the way
The papal decree establishing the Diocese of Savannah
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91. Sicchioni suhstitutus
Con breve dei 23 fugfiofatto vescovo di Savannah Sacerdote (Francesco Saverio
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Pius PP. IX
F or a future record of the matter: The pastoral office in the universal
Church, divinely entrusted to our humility, requires us to increase the
number of Pastors through the erection of Episcopal Sees, for the preserva
tion of the Lord’s flock. Now, then, since our venerable Brothers of the
Seventh Council of Baltimore have decided for the good and increase of
the Church that it would be very opportune if an Episcopal See were to be
erected in the city of Savannah for the State of Georgia, which would
encompass that same state; as well as Florida up to the Apalachicola River,
and also that it should be suffragan to the Archbishop of Baltimore and
that they should see to it that their urgent petitions concerning this matter
should be deferred to us, we have valued that which has come from the
advice of our venerable brothers the Cardinals superintending the
Propagation of the Faith for an erection of this kind. And so, on our own
initiative, with our certain knowledge and mature deliberation, from the
fullness of our apostolic power, we erect and establish an Episcopal See in
the City of Savannah, which shall encompass the State of Georgia as well
as Florida to the Apalachicola River, and which shall be contained within
the limits of the Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore as suffragan. Finally,
to the bishops to be set over the said Church of Savannah, we grant each
and every right, privilege and faculty proper to bishops, notwithstanding
our rule and that of the Apostolic Chancery concerning the non-removal of
acquired rights and, as far as is necessary, that of our Predecessor of happy
memory, Benedict XIV, concerning the division of materials and other
apostolic matters and also in universities, the ordering of provincial and
synodal councils, general or special constitutions and regulations, and any
other things to the contrary.
Given at Rome, at Saint Peter’s, under the ring of the Fisherman, on the
19th day of July, 1850, in the fifth year of our Pontificate.
For Cardinal Lamruschini
A. Sicchioni, substitute
By a brief of 23 July, the priest Francis Xavier Gartland was appointed
Bishop of Savannah.
Warm congratulations and prayers to
Bishop J. Kevin Boland, D.D.,
the clergy, religious and laity of
the Diocese of Savannah
on the 150 anniversary of the diocese
and the
centenary of the rededication of the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
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Bishop John J. Nevins, D.D.
Diocese of Venice in Florida
Congratulations
From Bishop William Houck
and the people of God
>f the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi