Identity area
Reference code
IE CA WA/1/5/2
Title
Letter from Archbishop Michael J. Curley to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan
Date(s)
- 14 Jan. 1930 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 p.; typescript
Context area
Name of creator
(8 December 1880-10 June 1952)
Repository
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letter from Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. referring to the opposition from the Pittsburgh Province (referred to as the ‘German Province’) to the Abbottstown house established by the Irish friars in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Province claimed an exclusive right to bar other Capuchin provinces from certain states in America. Archbishop Curley mentions this ‘situation’ had previously forced the Irish Capuchins out of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania.