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The Los Angeles Chancery Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Francis J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Queen of Angels Seminary, San Fernando, California

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Inter-American Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1965

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References

1 This author was officially appointed archivist for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on December 26, 1962.

2 Lord Acton.

3 July 20, 1963.

4 J. Weber, Cf. Francis, “ The San Francisco Chancery Archives,” The Americas, XX (January, 1964), 313-321.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 For the location of all the mission registers, cf., Bowman, J. N., “ The Parochial Books of the California Missions,” Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, XLIII (September, 1961), 303-315.Google Scholar

6 Codex Juris Canonici, C. 375.

7 Joseph Sadoc Alemany was promoted to the newly created Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1853 and continued to occupy the metropolitan see for the next three decades.

8 Francis Mora retired in 1896 and returned to his native Spain where he lived until 1905.

9 George T. Montgomery was promoted to the coadjutorship of San Francisco in 1903 but did not live to succeed.

10 Thomas J. Conaty had been Rector of The Catholic University of America for some years prior to coming west and had been Titular Bishop of Samos since 1901.

11 During his thirty-year episcopate in Southern California, John J. Contwell served successively as Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles (1917-1922), Bishop of Los Angeles-San Diego (1922–1936) and Archbishop of Los Angeles (1936–1947).

12 Before coming to Los Angeles, J. Francis A. McIntyre had served as Auxiliary Bishop (1941-1946) and later Coadjutor Archbishop (1946–1948) of New York. He was named a cardinal priest in 1952 by Pope Pius XII.

13 Joseph T. McGucken served as Auxiliary of Los Angeles from 1941 to 1955. He was appointed coadjutor of Sacramento in 1955 and succeeded two years later. In 1962 Pope John XXIII named him Archbishop of San Francisco.

14 Timothy Manning has been Titular Bishop of Lesvi and Auxiliary of Los Angeles since 1946.

15 J. Wiseman Macdonald was long-time legal consultant to the southland jurisdiction.

16 These are copies of documents used in the preliminary cause for Father Junipero Serra’s beatification.

17 The original is in the Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

18 The originals of entries # p) and q) are in the Santa Barbara Mission Archives.

19 These interesting and valuable volumes were acquired by the author in 1962 as vital material for the eventual biography of the Right Reverend Thomas J. Conaty