Commonwealth Catholicism : a history of the Catholic Church in Virginia /

Commonwealth Catholicism is the first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in the State of Virginia. Distinguished historian Gerald P. Fogarty tells the story of Virginia's Catholics in the state's history, from the colonial period to the present. Using archival resources, Fogarty...

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Main Author: Fogarty, Gerald P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Creating Catholic Space in a Protestant Wilderness. Ch. 1. Catholicism in Colonial Virginia. Ch. 2. Post-Revolutionary Virginia Catholicism. Ch. 3. Richmond Becomes a Diocese, 1820. Ch. 4. Diocese without a Bishop, 1821-1841. Ch. 5. Richard Vincent Whelan, Second Bishop of Richmond: 1841-1850. Ch. 6. Division of Richmond and Wheeling, 1850: John McGill, Richmond's Third Bishop. Ch. 7. Diocese on the Eve of the Civil War. Ch. 8. Civil War: Virginia's Catholics Rally to the Cause. Ch. 9. Nursing on the Battlefield and a Diocese Divided by War
  • pt. II. Post-Reconstruction Catholicism Takes Root. Ch. 10. Diocese Faces Reconstruction. Ch. 11. James Gibbons, Fourth Bishop of Richmond, 1872-1877.