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European Archival Resources for the Study of California Catholic History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

John Bernard McGloin S. J.
Affiliation:
University of San Francisco

Extract

Many of the giants of American Catholicism were born in Europe and this is seen rather strikingly in the case of the American period of Roman Catholicism in California, which period dates from 1850. When, on December 6 of that year, a young Dominican friar, newly consecrated in Rome as Bishop of Monterey, arrived through the Golden Gate in San Francisco, he brought with him strong European traditions and background.

Type
Survey
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1961

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