¹ This archival deposit is referred to by Zephyrin Engelhardt, O. F. M. and his contemporaries merely as “The Archbishop’s Archives.”

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³ Archbishop McGucken is the fifth native Californien elected to the episcopacy.

⁴ Two years previously the diocese had been withdrawn from the Metropolitan Province of Mexico City and placed directly under the Holy See.

⁵ There are now two archdioceses and six dioceses in California.

⁶ George Thomas Montgomery was named Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco on September 17, 1902, but lived only to 1907 and never succeeded to the See.

⁷ Soon after installing his coadjutor in 1884, Alemany returned to his native Spain where he lived until April 14, 1888.

⁸ Archbishop Hanna retired on March 2, 1935, and became Titular Archbishop of Gortyna. He died in Rome on July 10, 1944.

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¹³ Permission to use the San Francisco Chancery Archives will be given to qualified scholars upon receipt of a formal request addressed to the Chancellor’s office. Material designated by the interested party will be brought to a parlor where it can be examined.

¹⁴ The Taylor Collection has been microfilmed by the Academy of American Franciscan History and may be examined in Washington by competent scholars.

¹⁵ The author found Alemany's diary for the years between 1850 and 1853 in Barcelona in the summer of 1962. It is now part of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.