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Patrick William Riordan was born at Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada, from which place, in 1848, his parents, Mathew, a ship carpenter, and Mary (Dunn) Riordan, recent immigrants from Ireland, removed to Chicago.
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In the International Arbitral Court of the Hague: The Case of the Pious Fund of California
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Patrick William Riordan
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In Chicago the boy prepared for college at the academy of St. Mary's of the Lake, later entering Notre Dame University, from which he was graduated in 1858.
A pious youth with a vocation for the priesthood, he was sent by his bishop to Saint Sulpice in Paris for a few months, then to the North American College in Rome as one of the original class, and finally to Louvain, where he did the major part of his work for the doctorate in theology (1864) but was not awarded the degree until the occasion of the jubilee of the University, and then causa honoris.
Career
Ordained a priest by Cardinal Stercks at Mechlin, June 10, 1865, he was given an assignment to teach canon law and theology at the Seminary of St. Mary's of the Lake, where he remained until 1868, when he was transferred to pastorates at Woodstock and Joliet, Illinois. After three years of parochial work, he was made rector of St. James's Church in Chicago, in which position he demonstrated marked ability as a preacher, a tactful administrator, and, following the great fire, as a successful collector for diocesan rehabilitation. Known as a Roman student, he was named by Pope Leo XIII as coadjutor cum jure successionis to the aged Archbishop Alemany of San Francisco, with the title of Archbishop of Cabesa.
Consecrated by Archbishop Feehan of Chicago, September 16, 1883, he had hardly reached the Pacific coast when Alemany resigned and retired to his native Valencia in Spain. The archdiocese developed rapidly under Archbishop Riordan's fostering care: St. Mary's Cathedral was erected along with over forty churches; St. Patrick's Seminary at Menlo Park was established; several hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged, industrial schools, and a deaf-mute asylum were founded; and the number of priests and communicants about doubled. National parishes were organized and the old Spanish traditions were emphasized, though the Archbishop himself was not especially concerned with the old Spanish civilization. A number of religious orders were invited into the diocese.
Riordan inaugurated the parochial school system; fostered the Christian Brothers' College of St. Mary at Oakland and a normal school at San Jose; and assigned the purse given him on his silver jubilee to build Newman Hall at the University of California, an indication of his solicitude for Catholic students in secular institutions. He inaugurated the movement which led to the constitutional amendment (1900) exempting churches from taxation; as a delegate (1902) before the International Arbitration Court at The Hague, with the firm support of President Roosevelt and Secretary John Hay, he contributed largely to the settlement of the Pious Fund claims against Mexico.
His diocese was in a most prosperous condition when in 1906 the San Francisco earthquake and fire damaged church properties to the extent of several million dollars.
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