New Archdioceses

Pope Pius XI has not yet given U. S. Roman Catholics the new, fifth Cardinal that many of them feel entitled to, but he has consistently created new archdioceses wherever he has felt that Catholicism was flourishing. Having since 1922 made archiepiscopal sees of San Antonio, Los Angeles and Detroit, Piux XI last week did the same for Newark, N. J. and Louisville, Ky., which brings the number of U. S. archbishops to 19.

Under the Most Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, 64, its bishop since 1928, the diocese of Newark with a large Italian population has long been populous. Previously part of the ecclesiastical province of New York, Newark will now head a province including the diocese of Trenton, and the New Jersey dioceses of Paterson and Camden, whose bishops are to be named this week.

The Most Rev. John A. Floersh, 51, bishop since 1924 and now archbishop of Louisville, was for ten years secretary to the Apostolic delegate in Washington, the Vatican's liaison representative to the U. S. Church. The Louisville province will embrace all the Catholics of Kentucky and Tennessee, formerly attached to the province of Cincinnati. The bishop of the new diocese of Owensboro will shepherd the faithful of western Kentucky.

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