Henry Conwell (c. 1748 – 1842) was an Irish-born Catholic bishop in the United States. After serving as a priest in Ireland for more than four decades, he was installed as the second bishop of Philadelphia in 1819. He took up the post at an advanced age, and spent much of his time there feuding with the lay trustees of his parishes, especially those of St. Mary's Church in Philadelphia. When he removed and excommunicated William Hogan, a controversial priest at St. Mary's, the parish trustees instead rejected Conwell's authority, creating a minor schism. The two sides partially reconciled by 1826, but the Vatican hierarchy believed Conwell had ceded too much power to the laymen and recalled him to Rome. Although he retained his position, he was compelled to relinquish actual control to his coadjutor bishop, Francis Kenrick. He remained in Philadelphia and performed some priestly duties, but for all practical purposes no longer ran the diocese.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a two-cent coin, the first U.S. currency to bear the phrase "In God We Trust". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust
1915:
German forces released 168 tons of chlorine gas at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, causing thousands of casualties among French troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres
1969:
British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston completed the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world, winning the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race
2000:
In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
agrology: 1. (rare) A subdiscipline of agronomy (the science of utilizing animals, plants, and soils) and of soil science which addresses the influence of edaphic (soil-related) conditions on crop production for optimizing it. 2. (chiefly Canada) The science and art of agriculture. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agrology
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth. This … becomes obvious enough when it is considered that the earth is what we all have in common, that it is what we are made of and what we live from, and that we therefore cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it. But I believe it goes farther and deeper than that. There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other and our behavior toward the earth. … By some connection we do not recognize, the willingness to exploit one becomes the willingness to exploit the other. --Wendell Berry https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry