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59-613: WIHS is a ministry of the Connecticut Radio Fellowship, broadcasting music, local and national Christian programs. WIHS is non-commercial, 100% listener supported, and has been broadcasting Christian programs since 1969. The call sign WIHS-TV was used from 1964 to 1966 by the Archdiocese of Boston on UHF Channel 38; that station is now WSBK-TV . This article about a radio station in Connecticut

118-509: A Jesu Christo in 1821. Pius VII asserted that Freemasons must be excommunicated and it linked them with the Carbonari, an anti-clerical revolutionary group in Italy. All members of the Carbonari were also excommunicated. His concerns about the work of non-Catholic bible societies were acknowledged by Pope Gregory XVI in the latter's 1844 encyclical letter Inter Praecipuas . Pius VII

177-488: A combined total of about 16,000 students. The archdiocese previously used a headquarters facility in Brighton but sold it to Boston College in 2004 for $ 107,400,000. Steward Health Care System operates the former archdiocesan hospitals of Caritas Christi Health Care . Pope Pius VII Pope Pius VII ( Italian : Pio VII ; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti ; 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823)

236-481: A compromise candidate. On 14 March 1800, Chiaramonti was elected pope, certainly not the choice of die-hard opponents of the French Revolution , and took as his pontifical name Pius VII in honour of his immediate predecessor. He was crowned on 21 March, in the adjacent monastery church , by means of a rather unusual ceremony, wearing a papier-mâché papal tiara . The French had seized the tiaras held by

295-630: A crime, with a potential life sentence, for a Catholic priest to reside in the colony. The political necessity of gaining Catholic support for the American Revolutionary War drove a change in popular attitudes in the colonies. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , written by John Adams and ratified in 1780, established religious freedom in the new state. With the Massachusetts constitution being

354-592: A fall in the papal apartments and was bedridden from that point onward. In his final weeks he would often lose consciousness and would mutter the names of the cities that he had been ferried away to by the French forces. With the Cardinal Secretary of State Ercole Consalvi at his side, Pius VII died on 20 August at 5 a.m. He was briefly interred in the Vatican Grottoes but was later buried in

413-678: A monument in St. Peter's Basilica after his funeral on 25 August. An application to commence beatification proceedings were lodged to the Holy See on 10 July 2006 and received the approval of Cardinal Camillo Ruini (the Vicar of Rome ) who transferred the request to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints . The Congregation - on 24 February 2007 - approved the opening of the cause responding to

472-470: A proposed 2023 law to remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse lawsuits. From 2011 and 2019 the Catholic church in Massachusetts spent over half a million dollars lobbying against such laws. The coat of arms of the archdiocese, shown in the information box to the right at the top of this article, has a blue shield with a gold cross and a gold "trimount" over a silver and blue "Barry-wavy" at

531-670: A total of five saints. On 24 May 1807, Pius VII canonized Angela Merici , Benedict the Moor , Colette Boylet , Francis Caracciolo and Hyacintha Mariscotti . He beatified a total of 27 individuals including Joseph Oriol , Berardo dei Marsi , Giuseppe Maria Tomasi and Crispin of Viterbo . Pius VII created 99 cardinals in nineteen consistories including notable ecclesial figures of that time such as Ercole Consalvi, Bartolomeo Pacca , and Carlo Odescalchi . The Pope also named his two immediate successors as cardinals: Annibale della Genga and Francesco Saverio Castiglioni (the latter of whom it

590-762: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston ( Latin : Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Bostoniensis ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. The archdiocese

649-430: Is a symbol of the sea, alluding to Boston's role as a major seaport whose first non-indigenous settlers came from across the sea. The diocesan newspaper The Pilot has been published in Boston since 1829. The archdiocese's Catholic Television Center , founded in 1955, produces programs and operates the cable television network CatholicTV . From 1964 to 1966, it owned and operated a broadcast television station under

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708-419: Is divided into five pastoral regions, each headed by an episcopal vicar . Brookline Cambridge Somerville Winthrop E. Norfolk Co. As of 2018, the archdiocese had 112 schools with approximately 34,000 students in pre-kindergarten through high school. In 1993 the archdiocese had 53,569 students in 195 archdiocesan parochial schools. Boston had the largest number of parochial schools: 48 schools with

767-399: Is said Pius VII and his successor would refer to as "Pius VIII"). In addition, Pius VII named 12 cardinals whom he reserved " in pectore ". One died before his nomination could ever be published (he was originally nominated in the 1804 consistory), Marino Carafa di Belvedere resigned his cardinalate on 24 August 1807 upon citing a lack of family descendance, and Carlo Odescalchi resigned

826-631: Is the fourth largest in the United States. It was formed in 1808, branching off from the Diocese of Baltimore and growing rapidly during the 19th century. Starting in 2002 the archdiocese faced a sexual abuse scandal which touched off investigations of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases throughout the United States. Richard G. Henning has served as archbishop since October 31, 2024. The Archdiocese of Boston encompasses Essex County , Middlesex County, Norfolk County , and Suffolk County in Massachusetts. It includes most of Plymouth County except for

885-517: The Catholic Church in the United States , where Pius established several new dioceses. Pius VII died in 1823 at age 81. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI began the process towards canonizing him as a saint, and he was granted the title Servant of God . Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti was born in Cesena in 1742, the youngest son of Count Scipione Chiaramonti (30 April 1698 – 13 September 1750). His mother, Giovanna Coronata (d. 22 November 1777),

944-581: The College of Cardinals and to the office of Cardinal Secretary of State . Consalvi immediately left for France, where he was able to negotiate the Concordat of 1801 with the First Consul Napoleon . While not effecting a return to the old Christian order, the treaty did provide certain civil guarantees to the Church, acknowledging "the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion" as that of

1003-642: The Diocese of Baltimore . The new diocese consisted of the states of Connecticut , Massachusetts (including present-day Maine ), New Hampshire, Rhode Island , and Vermont. The pope named Cheverus as the first bishop of Boston. The exponential growth of the Catholic Church in New England through the nineteenth century led the Vatican to create new dioceses out of the Diocese of Boston and later

1062-428: The French Revolution ministering to Boston's Catholic population at the turn of the century, Reverends Francis Anthony Matignon and John Cheverus , raised the funds to build a larger building, the Church of the Holy Cross. These buildings no longer exist, but they were the foundation of the Catholic Church in Massachusetts. Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Boston on April 8, 1808, taking all of New England from

1121-541: The French Revolutionary Army invaded Italy in 1797, Cardinal Chiaramonti counseled temperance and submission to the newly created Cisalpine Republic . In a letter that he addressed to the people of his diocese, Chiaramonti asked them to comply "... in the current circumstances of change of government (...)" to the authority of the victorious general Commander-in-Chief of the French army. In his Christmas homily that year, he asserted that there

1180-560: The Papal States in 1809 and took Pius VII as their prisoner, exiling him to Savona . On 15 November 1809 Pius VII consecrated the church at La Voglina, Valenza , Piedmont with the intention of the Villa La Voglina becoming his spiritual base whilst in exile. Unfortunately his residency was short lived once Napoleon became aware of his intentions of establishing a permanent base and he was soon exiled to France. Despite this,

1239-417: The Papal States , resulting in his excommunication through the papal bull Quum memoranda . Pius VII was taken prisoner and transported to France . He remained there until 1814 when, after the French were defeated, he was permitted to return to Rome, where he was greeted warmly as a hero and defender of the faith. Pius lived the remainder of his life in relative peace. His papacy saw a significant growth of

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1298-645: The Pincian Hill . The pope also made sure Rome was a place for artists and the leading artists of the time like Antonio Canova and Peter von Cornelius . He also enriched the Vatican Library with numerous manuscripts and books. It was Pius VII who adopted the yellow and white flag of the Holy See as a response to the Napoleonic invasion of 1809. Throughout his pontificate, Pius VII canonized

1357-715: The United States ' undertaking of the First Barbary War to suppress the Muslim Barbary pirates along the southern Mediterranean coast, ending their kidnapping of Europeans for ransom and slavery , Pius VII declared that the United States "had done more for the cause of Christianity than the most powerful nations of Christendom have done for ages." For the United States, he established several new dioceses in 1808 for Boston , New York City , Philadelphia and Bardstown . In 1821, he also established

1416-615: The "majority of French citizens". The main terms of the concordat between France and the pope included: As pope, he followed a policy of cooperation with the French Republic and subsequently Empire. He was present at the coronation of Napoleon in 1804. However, he was reluctant to align the Papal States trade law with that of the Continental System, and as tensions inflamed, France later occupied and annexed

1475-684: The Archdiocese of Boston. In the 1920s, Cardinal William O'Connell moved the chancery from offices near Holy Cross Cathedral in the South End to 127 Lake Street in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. "Lake Street" was a metonym for the bishop and the office of the archdiocese. In June 2004, the archdiocese sold the archbishop's residence and the chancery and surrounding lands in Brighton to Boston College , in part to defray costs associated with numerous cases of sexual abuse by clergy of

1534-772: The Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery in Venice. There were three main candidates, two of whom proved to be unacceptable to the Habsburgs , whose candidate, Alessandro Mattei , could not secure sufficient votes. However, Carlo Bellisomi also was a candidate, though not favoured by Austrian cardinals; a "virtual veto" was imposed against him in the name of Francis II and carried out by Cardinal Franziskus Herzan von Harras . After several months of stalemate, Jean-Sifrein Maury proposed Chiaramonti as

1593-794: The Collegio dei Nobili in Ravenna but decided to join the Order of Saint Benedict at the age of 14 on 2 October 1756 as a novice at the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte in Cesena. Two years after this on 20 August 1758, he became a professed member and assumed the name of Gregorio . He taught at Benedictine colleges in Parma and Rome , and was ordained a priest on 21 September 1765. A series of promotions resulted after his relative, Giovanni Angelo Braschi,

1652-733: The French authorities to re-arrest many of the opposing prelates. Their confinement, however, lasted only a matter of weeks, as Napoleon abdicated on 11 April of that year. As soon as Pius VII returned to Rome, he immediately revived the Inquisition and the Index of Condemned Books . Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca , who was kidnapped along with Pope Pius VII, took the office of Pro-Secretary of State in 1808 and maintained his memoirs during his exile. His memoirs, written originally in Italian, have been translated into English (two volumes) and describe

1711-457: The Holy See when occupying Rome and forcing Pius VI into exile. The new pope then left for Rome, sailing on a barely seaworthy Austrian ship, the Bellona , which lacked even a galley . The twelve-day voyage ended at Pesaro and he proceeded to Rome. One of Pius VII's first acts was appointing the minor cleric Ercole Consalvi , who had performed so ably as secretary to the recent conclave, to

1770-464: The archdiocese settled over 500 abuse-related claims for $ 85 million. Victims received an average of $ 92,000 each and the perpetrators included 140 priests and two others. Additional sex abuse allegations within the Archdiocese of Boston surfaced in later years as well. This included alleged abuse at Saint John's Seminary and Arlington Catholic High School . The Archdiocese of Boston lobbies against laws intended to help survivors of abuse, such as

1829-409: The archdiocese. The archdiocesan offices of the archdiocese moved to Braintree . The archdiocesan seminary, Saint John's Seminary , remains on the property in Brighton. At the beginning of the 21st century the archdiocese was shaken by accusations of sexual abuse by clergy that culminated in the resignation of its archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law , on December 13, 2002. In September 2003,

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1888-523: The base of the shield. The "trimount" of three coupreaux represents the City of Boston, the original name of which was Trimountaine in reference to the three hills on which the city's original settlement stood. The cross, fleurettée , honors the Cathedral of the Holy Cross while also serving as a reminder that the first bishop of Boston and other early ecclesiastics were natives of France. The "Barry-wavy"

1947-518: The call letters WIHS-TV . The Archdiocese of Boston is also metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical province of Boston. This means that the archbishop of Boston is the metropolitan for the province. The suffragan dioceses in the province are the Diocese of Burlington , Diocese of Fall River , Diocese of Manchester , Diocese of Portland , Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts , and the Diocese of Worcester . The Archdiocese of Boston

2006-733: The call of the Ligurian bishops. On 15 August 2007, the Holy See contacted the diocese of Savona-Noli with the news that Pope Benedict XVI had declared " nihil obstat " (nothing stands against) the cause of beatification of the late pontiff, thus opening the diocesan process for this pope's beatification. He now has the title of Servant of God . The official text declaring the opening of the cause was: " Summus Pontifex Benedictus XVI declarat, ex parte Sanctae Sedis, nihil obstare quominus in Causa Beatificationis et Canonizationis Servi Dei Pii Barnabae Gregorii VII Chiaramonti ". Work on

2065-594: The cardinalate on 21 November 1838 to enter the Society of Jesus . In 1801, according to Remigius Ritzler , Pius VII nominated Paolo Luigi Silva as a cardinal in pectore , however, he died before his name could be published. As a result, Pius VII added the Archbishop of Palermo Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte in his place. In the March 1816 consistory, the former bishop of Saint-Malo Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny

2124-478: The cause commenced the following month in gathering documentation on the late pope. He has since been elected as the patron of the Diocese of Savona and the patron of prisoners. In late 2018 the Bishop of Savona announced that the cause for Pius VII would continue following the completion of initial preparation and investigation. The bishop named a new postulator and a diocesan tribunal which would begin work into

2183-464: The cause. The formal introduction to the cause (a diocesan investigation into the late pontiff's life) was held at a Mass celebrated in the Savona diocese on 31 October 2021. The first postulator for the cause was Father Giovanni Farris (2007–18) and the current postulator since 2018 is Fr. Giovanni Margara. Pope Pius VII's monument (1831) in St. Peter's Basilica , adorning his tomb, was created by

2242-753: The community, as monastic communities generally felt it was not in keeping with the Rule of St. Benedict . He served as librarian at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls . In December 1782, the pope appointed Dom Gregory as the Bishop of Tivoli , near Rome . Pius VI soon named him, in February 1785, the Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto , and as the Bishop of Imola , an office he held until 1816. When

2301-401: The dioceses of Charleston , Richmond and Cincinnati . On 3 June 1816, Pius VII condemned the works of Melkite bishop Germanos Adam . Adam's writings supported conciliarism , the view that the authority of ecumenical councils was greater than that of the papacy. In 1822, Pius VII reached his 80th birthday and his health was visibly declining. On 6 July 1823, he fractured his hip in

2360-469: The first state constitution in the United States, its framework of government became a model for the constitutions of other states and, eventually, for the federal constitution. In 1788, the Abbé de la Poterie, a former French naval chaplain serving in Boston, celebrated the city's first public mass in a converted Huguenot chapel at 24 School Street in Boston, which he named Holy Cross Church. Two refugees from

2419-655: The first step in the restoration of the order. On 31 July 1814, he signed the papal bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum which universally restored the Society of Jesus to its previous provinces, and the Jesuits began to resume their work in those countries. He appointed Tadeusz Brzozowski as the Superior General of the order . Pius VII joined the declaration of the 1815 Congress of Vienna , represented by Cardinal Secretary of State Ercole Consalvi , and urged

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2478-592: The human person. In his letter to the king of Portugal, he wrote: "the pope regrets that this trade in blacks, that he believed having ceased, is still exercised in some regions and even more cruel way. He begs and begs the King of Portugal that it implement all its authority and wisdom to extirpate this unholy and abominable shame." Under Napoleonic rule, the Jewish Roman Ghetto had been abolished and Jews were free to live and move where they would. Following

2537-560: The lack of reforms in the Church of England . These dissenters followed Martin Luther and John Calvin in rejecting the selling of indulgences , the celebration of a Latin Mass , the doctrine of transubstantiation , and papal authority. As these dissenters set up colonies in New England, they enacted legal restrictions on Catholics, including bans on Catholic worship. Massachusetts made it

2596-510: The pope continued to refer to Napoleon as "my dear son" but added that he was "a somewhat stubborn son, but a son still". This exile ended only when Pius VII signed the Concordat of Fontainebleau in 1813. One result of this new treaty was the release of the exiled cardinals, including Consalvi, who, upon re-joining the papal retinue, persuaded Pius VII to revoke the concessions he had made in it. This Pius VII began to do in March 1814, which led

2655-589: The pope from naming him to the Sacred College. On 15 August 1811 - the Feast of the Assumption - it is recorded that the pope celebrated Mass and was said to have entered a trance and began to levitate in a manner that drew him to the altar. This particular episode aroused great wonder and awe among attendants which included the French soldiers guarding him who were in disbelief of what had occurred. On

2714-560: The restoration of Papal rule, Pius VII re-instituted the confinement of Jews to the Ghetto, having the doors closed at nighttime. Pius VII issued an encyclical Diu satis in order to advocate a return to the values of the Gospel and universalized the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows for 15 September. He condemned Freemasonry and the movement of the Carbonari in the encyclical Ecclesiam

2773-461: The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade . This pertained particularly to places such as Spain and Portugal where slavery was economically very important. The pope wrote a letter to King Louis XVIII of France dated 20 September 1814 and to King John VI of Portugal in 1823 to urge the end of slavery. He condemned the slave trade and defined the sale of people as an injustice to the dignity of

2832-469: The towns of Marion , Mattapoisett, and Wareham . As of 2018, the archdiocese had 284 parishes with 617 diocesan priests and 275 permanent deacons. In 2018, the archdiocese estimated that more than 1.9 million Catholics lived within its territory. New England's first settlers were Congregationalists and, in Rhode Island, Baptists . Many of them left England because they were disappointed in

2891-560: The ups and down of their exile and the triumphant return to Rome in 1814. Pius VII's imprisonment did in fact come with one bright side for him. It gave him an aura that recognized him as a living martyr, so that when he arrived back in Rome in May 1814, he was greeted most warmly by the Italians as a hero. From the time of his election as pope to the fall of Napoleon in 1815, Pius VII's reign

2950-442: Was among the cardinals created in pectore in the consistory, though he declined the promotion. Similarly, Giovanni Alliata declined the pope's offer for elevation in the same consistory. According to Niccolò del Re, the Vice-Camerlengo Tiberio Pacca would have been created a cardinal either in the March 1823 consistory, or a future one held by the pope. However, he suggests that a series of controversies beginning in 1820 prevented

3009-461: Was completely taken up in dealing with France. He and the Emperor were continually in conflict, often involving the French military leader's wishes for concessions to his demands. Pius VII wanted his own release from exile as well as the return of the Papal States, and, later on, the release of the 13 "Black Cardinals", i.e., the cardinals, including Consalvi, who had snubbed the marriage of Napoleon to Marie Louise , believing that his previous marriage

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3068-401: Was elected Pope Pius VI (1775–99). A few years before this election occurred, in 1773, Chiaramonti became the personal confessor to Braschi. In 1776, Pius VI appointed the 34-year-old Dom Gregory, who had been teaching at the Monastery of Sant'Anselmo in Rome, as honorary abbot in commendam of his monastery. Although this was an ancient practice, it drew complaints from the monks of

3127-417: Was elected to the papacy, taking the name Pius VII. Pius at first attempted to take a cautious approach in dealing with Napoleon. With him he signed the Concordat of 1801 , through which he succeeded in guaranteeing religious freedom for Catholics living in France, and was present at his coronation as Emperor of the French in 1804. In 1809, however, during the Napoleonic Wars , Napoleon once again invaded

3186-443: Was head of the Catholic Church from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823. He ruled the Papal States from June 1800 to 17 May 1809 and again from 1814 to his death. Chiaramonti was also a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict in addition to being a well-known theologian and bishop. Chiaramonti was made Bishop of Tivoli in 1782, and resigned that position upon his appointment as Bishop of Imola in 1785. That same year, he

3245-449: Was made a cardinal . In 1789, the French Revolution took place, and as a result a series of anti-clerical governments came into power in the country. In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars , French troops under Louis-Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome and captured Pope Pius VI , taking him as a prisoner to France, where he died in 1799. The following year, after a sede vacante period lasting approximately six months, Chiaramonti

3304-402: Was multilingual and had the ability to speak Italian, French, English and Latin . Pius VII was a man of culture and attempted to reinvigorate Rome with archaeological excavations in Ostia which revealed ruins and icons from ancient times. He also had walls and other buildings rebuilt and restored the Arch of Titus . He ordered the construction of fountains and piazzas and erected the obelisk on

3363-422: Was no opposition between a democratic form of government and being a good Catholic: "Christian virtue makes men good democrats.... Equality is not an idea of philosophers but of Christ...and do not believe that the Catholic religion is against democracy." Following the death of Pope Pius VI, by then virtually France's prisoner, at Valence in 1799, the conclave to elect his successor met on 30 November 1799 in

3422-401: Was still valid, and had been exiled and impoverished in consequence of their stand, along with several exiled or imprisoned prelates, priests, monks, nuns and other various supporters. On 7 March 1801, Pius VII issued the brief Catholicae fidei that approved the existence of the Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire and appointed its first superior general as Franciszek Kareu . This was

3481-702: Was the daughter of the Marquess Ghini. Though his family was of noble status, they were not wealthy but rather, were of middle-class stock. His maternal grandparents were Barnaba Eufrasio Ghini and Isabella de' conti Aguselli. His paternal grandparents were Giacinto Chiaramonti (1673–1725) and Ottavia Maria Altini; his paternal great-grandparents were Scipione Chiaramonti (1642–1677) and Ottavia Maria Aldini. His paternal great-great-grandparents were Chiaramonte Chiaramonti and Polissena Marescalchi. His siblings were Giacinto Ignazio (19 September 1731 – 7 June 1805), Tommaso (19 December 1732 – 8 December 1799) and Ottavia (1 June 1738 – 7 May 1814). Like his brothers, he attended

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