"The Franciscan Missions (whose memory and whose remains in the second century of their existence are still treasured not by California alone, but by the whole country) having been lately confiscated in the name of "secularization", the missionaries driven away and their flocks largely dispersed, it was evident that his work was simply to create all that a new order of things called for, an order as unique as a bishop ever had to encounter."
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Patrick William Riordan
Patrick William Riordan (27 August 1841 – 27 December 1914) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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