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Francis Patrick Kenrick, the brother of Peter Richard Kenrick and son of Thomas and Jean (Eustace) Kenrick, was born on December 3, 1796 in the Liberties of Dublin, Ireland where his father kept a scrivener's office.
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Francis Patrick Kenrick, the brother of Peter Richard Kenrick and son of Thomas and Jean (Eustace) Kenrick, was born on December 3, 1796 in the Liberties of Dublin, Ireland where his father kept a scrivener's office.
Kenrick was educated in local schools and under an uncle, Reverend Richard Kenrick, he was sent in 1814 to the Propaganda at Rome, where he made a brilliant course in scriptures, Greek, Hebrew, and modern languages, and learned from Pius VII how to endure persecution and yet firmly uphold the liberties of the Church. He was ordained in Rome on April 7, 1821.
About 1821 Kenrick was called by Bishop Flaget to the chair of theology in St. Thomas Seminary, Bardstown, Kentucky, and a lectureship in Greek and history at St. Joseph's College. As pastor of the local congregation and preacher of the Jubilee Year throughout the diocese, he won recognition as a pulpit orator whose sermons were finished productions and as a controversialist willing to enter the lists with local Protestant divines (The Letters of Omega and Omicron on Transubstantiation, 1828). As a theologian, he attended the First Provincial Council of Baltimore (1829), for which he acted as a secretary. In its solution of the difficulties in the mismanaged diocese of Philadelphia, the Council petitioned the Holy See to name Kenrick coadjutor of the enfeebled Bishop Henry Conwell, with full power of administration. This was done, and Kenrick as titular bishop of Arath was consecrated at Bardstown on June 6, 1830 by Bishop Flaget assisted by Bishops Conwell and David.
Arriving at Philadelphia a month later, he took over the diocese, though his patience was sorely tried by the truculent old bishop, who misunderstood his authority and misinterpreted his kindly consideration. He ended trusteeism in the diocese by placing an interdict (1831) on St. Mary's Church until its trustees surrendered in accordance with the will of a majority of the congregation, and by ordering that the bishop's name be substituted for that of the trustees in future donations to the Church.
During the cholera epidemic (1832), he won general approbation because of his personal services, of the ministrations of his priests and Sisters of Charity, and of the assignment of St. Augustine's school as a hospital. Though he was keenly concerned about poor relief, temperance, and immigrant aid, his ardent Americanism prevented the enthusiastic support of O'Connell and the Irish movement for repeal of the Act of Union which the Irish-Americans demanded of a hero. The moderation of his diocesan paper, the Catholic Herald, founded in 1833 with the aid of Michael Hurley, O. S. A. , and of his secretary, John Joseph Hughes, did not escape criticism. His success lay in being bishop of all his people, and Catholicity in Pennsylvania was representative of diverse races. A strict canonist, he forbade the Masonic funeral of Stephen Girard from Holy Trinity Church but permitted Christian burial on the score that Girard's sudden illness had prevented reconciliation with the Church.
In 1832, he held a diocesan synod which was attended by thirty priests representing about 100, 000 Catholics, and thereafter he held frequent councils and conducted scrutinizing visitations. He not only supported parochial schools, the Augustinian College of Villanova (1842), the Jesuit College of St. Joseph (1851), and the various convents, academies, and asylums, but he successfully forced the issue with the controllers of public schools in Philadelphia against compulsory attendance of pupils at instructions based on the King James version of the Bible (1842). In 1844, with firmness and patience, he faced the nativist riots which resulted in the firing of Catholic properties including St. Michael's and St. Augustine's churches (Catholic Herald, May-July 1844, passim). He counseled moderation, prevented retaliation by his embittered people, temporarily closed the churches, and placed the burden of protection upon civil authorities by turning over the keys of church properties.
Criticized as a negative character by aggressive followers, Kenrick, nevertheless, by the tactics he pursued, paved the way for better relations, and in the reaction against lawless bigotry received a number of noted converts into the Church. A year later the situation was sufficiently in hand so that he could journey to Rome in the interest of his diocese. An era of building followed, as the Catholic population increased with immigration, so that on his translation to the archepiscopal See of Baltimore (brief of August 3, 1851), Kenrick left his successor a corps of 146 priests and seminarians and 102 churches and chapels. Named apostolic delegate, he presided over the First Plenary Council in 1852. The following year, at the request of the pope, he collected the views of the American episcopate on the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, which he heard promulgated in Rome in 1854. In 1858 he introduced the Forty Hours' devotion into the United States.
As in Philadelphia, he actively concerned himself with the foundation and support of schools and charitable institutions, giving full patronage to the Sulpicians and Loyola College. A Unionist, he found Baltimore less pleasant during the Civil War. His address on "Christian Patriotism" in which he hinted that national loyalty should supersede state patriotism was not well received, and at times he was irritated by the pro-Southern editorial views of the Catholic Mirror. His death was hurried by the reports of the slaughter at Gettysburg. Kenrick was a thorough scholar, and aside from diaries, pastoral letters, magazine articles, and a voluminous correspondence with prelates and Catholic scholars at home and abroad, left the some theological studies.
Kenrick achieved recognition as an eloquent preacher, effective apologist, and theologian. During his tenure as a Bishop, the number of churches in the diocese grew from 22 to 92; priests from 35 to 101 and charitable institutions from two to six. He made a great contribution to the development of the US Parochial School System. He also began the construction on the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul and founded Charles Borromeo Seminary. The chief literary works of Kenrick were a new translation of the Bible; a "Moral and Dogmatic Theology"; a "Commentary on the Book of Job" and letters to the Protestant bishops of the United States on Christian unity.
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