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12-751: The American Catholic Historical Association ( ACHA ) was founded by Peter Guilday in Cleveland, Ohio , in December 1919 as a national society to bring together scholars interested in the history of the Roman Catholic Church or in Catholic aspects of secular history. It aims to promote a deeper and more widespread knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church and the advancement of historical scholarship. The ACHA has always enjoyed

24-719: A general meeting each year on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday following New Year's Day. It meets in a different city each year but always jointly with the American Historical Association , with which it is affiliated, and with other historical societies. The ACHA is the recognized Catholic voice in the historical profession in the United States. It is one of the three societies that make up the American National Commission of

36-606: Is Timothy M. Dolan . The archdiocese began as the Diocese of New York, which was created on April 8, 1808. R. Luke Concanen was appointed its first bishop; however, he was unable to leave the Italian Peninsula due to the Napoleonic Wars and died before he could set out for New York. Under the reign of his successor, John Connolly , a canonical visitation of the diocese was conducted. On account of

48-477: Is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs. As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing nearly all of the state of New York , the Archbishop of New York also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Albany , Brooklyn , Buffalo , Ogdensburg , Rochester , Rockville Centre and Syracuse . The current archbishop

60-757: The International Commission for Comparative Church History . Peter Guilday Guilday was born in Chester, Pennsylvania of Irish parents. Graduated from Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia in 1901. He studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook PA . In 1907 he gained a scholarship to the American College of Louvain . He was ordained to the priesthood there on July 11, 1909, by Henry Gabriels . After ordination, Guilday briefly studied at

72-681: The University of Bonn , but returned to Louvain University to work on his doctorate, which he obtained there in 1914. His doctoral dissertation was supervised by Alfred Cauchie . While working on his doctorate, Guilday visited archives in France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy and spent a year in London, working as a priest at St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater , while attending lectures in history at

84-738: The University of London. His doctoral dissertation was published in London in 1914 by Longmans, Green and Company under the title The English Catholic Refugees on the Continent, 1558–1795 , volume 1. Guilday intended to follow this up with a second volume on the Irish Colleges on the Continent, but research for this was made impossible by the outbreak of World War I . Instead, in 1914, Guilday began teaching at Catholic University of America , Rector Thomas J. Shahan having asked Edmond Francis Prendergast , Archbishop of Philadelphia , to release him from diocesan duties so that he could join

96-531: The capital of the world." Ten men have been Archbishop of New York; another three were bishop of its predecessor diocese. Of these, only one ( John Dubois ) was neither born in Ireland nor was second-generation Irish . Eight archbishops were elevated to the College of Cardinals . John McCloskey , the fifth ordinary of the archdiocese, was the first archbishop to be born in the United States, as well as

108-781: The faculty. During the war, Guilday also served as secretary to the National Catholic War Council's committee on historical records and as assistant district educational director in the Students Army Training Corps. As an academic, Guilday worked as principal editor of the Catholic Historical Review from 1915 to 1941, and in 1919 was cofounder of the American Catholic Historical Association . His writings established him as

120-577: The period's leading scholar in Catholic Church History , with appointment as full professor in 1923. He was relieved of teaching duties in 1941, and intended to use his time to produce a study of John Hughes , Archbishop of New York , but was prevented by poor health. He died in 1947. Archbishop of New York The Archbishop of New York is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York , who

132-458: The population increase due largely to Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Germany, the Holy See decided to elevate the diocese to the status of archdiocese on July 19, 1850. John Hughes became the first archbishop of the newly-formed metropolitan see. Because of the prominence of the position and the challenges that accompany it, Pope John Paul II described the office as "archbishop of

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144-485: The support of Catholic universities, colleges, and seminaries and has endeavored, in turn, to make itself especially helpful to their teachers and students. It welcomes non-Catholics among its members and has elected many of them to its committees, its executive council, and even its presidency. There are approximately 1,100 members. The ACHA adopted as its official organ The Catholic Historical Review , which had been appearing quarterly since April 1915. The ACHA holds

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