060Hf^ 2l4 OOOdlK OfiDiA
Jacinto Anaya, appointed 18 August, 18©7, d. 17 Bordeaux, he remained behind to direct the mobii-
December, 1915, this see was vacant for a year ization of the chemical industries in the capital.
before the appointment of the present incumbent, He was ** * ' *^'^ tt^^ c — -'-
Rt. Rev. Luigi Francesco Pienni, b. at Bagnaia during tl
1871, appointed 20 February, 1918. In 1914 this the Cat
diocese was solemnly united with the Eucharistic bringing
Congress of Lourdes, and the people took part in Holy See. In 1911 he was elected to the French
the devotions with great fervor. During recent Academy. Among his writings may be mentioned
years it lost a prominent member by the death of "L'Evolution et la Vie" (1885) and "Le Monde
Dr. Mariano Baptista, ex-President of the Republic, exterieur" (1896), crowned by the academy, "Contre
founder of the Catholic Union, and zealous de- les Barbares" (1899), "L'Esprit nouveau" (1900),
fender of the Catholic institutions. and "Ententes et ruptures (1905). With ius
By latest (1922) statistics the population of the brother Henri-Denys (b. 1864 at Pans), who is a
diocese numbers 550,000, made up of Spanish- distinguished lawyer, politician, and authority on
Americans and half-breeds, about 60% of the total Italian poetry and art, he published several of the
population being Indians, 30% half-breeds, and 10% works of his father (b. at Paris 1823; d. at Ver-
whites. There are 63 parishes, 74 churches, 100 saillea 1872), whose "Abolition de Tesclavage"
public chapels, 1 mission, 3 monasteries of women, (1861) was crowned by the academy.
4 convents of men, 129 secular and 32 regular clergy, oochln, Diocbsb op (Coocinbnbis; cf. C. E..
6 Brothers, 95 Sisters, 1 semmary, 22 seminarians, iv-.76c), in India, is suffragan to the Archdiocese
2 colleges for boys with 6 teachers and 240 students, ^^ q^^ j^ ^ ^^ present (1921) under the adminis-
1 college of women with 9 . teachere and 340 tration of Rt. Rev. Jose Bento Martin Ribeiro.
students, 1 asylum and 1 hospitel. All the state y^ ^^ Laurigal do Campas, Portugal, 22 August,
colleges and chantable mstitutions permit the jg^g^ professor at the College of Missions, Portugal,
priests to minister in them, and the seminajry, one appointed bishop 28 February, 1909, consecrated
coUege and the orphanage receive state aid. Ihe jg ^^^ ^^ ^y^^ ^^^^ y^^^ jj^ gycceeded Rt.
Apostolic V^P^iP orgamzed among the cleiw. Rev. Matheus d*01iveira Xavier, who was promoted
and a Cathohc Center, and the Knights of the ^^ ^j^^ archdiocese of Goa.
Sacred Heart among the laity. Two periodicals, ^^ present time (1921) the population of this
"Bolivia Eclesiastico^' and "Infonnacion CatoUca, ^^^ -^ approximately 450.000, of whom 108.700
are published. are CatholicS;^ and the yearly conversions average
establi^ed and 3
statesman and author, d. at rans on l oepwmoer, hrothprs. the FranmaPAn MiRsionariM nf Marv with
^ ^, ^ -, -, . , -D^.^^ *about 300. The religious communities establii
Oochln, I^YS-MABM-PrawifrAuGua™, B^ ^^g. ^^^ g^j^^ ^^ j^^g ^^^ 10 priests ar
.^tesman and author, b. at Pans on 1 September, brothers, the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Vx.^ 1851;, d. there on 24 March 19M. He was the son ^ novitiate for Indian nuns with 9 religious and of Pierre-Susana-Augustin Cochin, member of the ^^ novices, Canossian Sisters with 20 religious. French Academy of Moral and Political^ Science^ ^j^^^^ ^^. ^ parishes, 77 churches and chapels, 63 and Adelme, daughter of Count Benowt d Asy. ^ secular clergy, 62 of whom are natives, 11 regulars belonged to one of the oldest known Pans families ^j j^^^-^ ^^^ ^ Carmelite), a preparatory semi- one of his ancestors having been an alderman there ^^^^ conducted by the* Jesuits at AUeppy with 26 in the days of St. Louis, King of ^nce, while gtudents, besides 14 seminarians from this diocese another^held a similar position imder FYancis 11 m ^j^^ ^^ studying in higher seminaries in other 1562. His father was elected Pr6fet of the Seme^t- ^^ ^j j^^^j^^ g high schools for boys with 1.780 Oise m 1871. Denys Cochin was studying at the jj^^ g for giris under the Canoeian Sisters with Lyc^e Louis-le-Grand, with Brunetifere, Becquerel, ^gg jjg jq Anglo-vernacular parochial schools and Paul Bouxget. when the war of ipo broke out. ^.^j^ ^^^ jj g^ vernacular parochial schools He foufht with the Eighth Lancers, taking part m ^^.j^ y'ggg pupils
BouAaki's ca^aim, being twice wounded, and re- The 'chantable institutions comprise: 2 orphan-
oeiving Uier»^(&tZfemiZttatre for bravey. On being ^^^ ^^.jg ^j^j^ ^24 orphans, 1 for boys with
mustered out of the army he cratmued his studies ^^ orphans, 2 industrial schools for girls with 88
Saduating in law and science. He then entered the y g catechumenates and a pnnting office,
plomatic service and for a time was an attache ^j^^^.^ ^^^ ^ different confraternities established
at the EmbMsy m London, but soon he returned throughout the diocese, 3 congregations of the Third
to his scientific studies and for several yeara carried q^^^ ^f g^ Francis, 1 Association of Holy Family,
out research work under Pasteur. In 1878 he en- g conferences of St. Vincent de Paul, 2 societies
gaged m politico, and was elected to the municipal ^^^ ^j^^ ^^j.^^ ^^ ^j^^ ^^^^ j^^ purgatory, 15 sodaliUes council of Pans. True to the religious spint of ^^ ^y^^ children of Mary, 1 Misericordia Confra-
ticularly against the violation oi ine religious pro- ^j^^ parishes and the confraternity
visions m the charter of the Hopital Cochm which ^^ ^^^ ^jj ^f ^^em. was established m the eighteenth century by his great-uncle, Abb6 Jacques-Denys Cochin. At a Oo<fliln China, Eastern, Vicawatb Apobtouc op
later period he was elected to the French Chamber, (CoaNONN^ oribntalis; cf. C. E., VII-777d), one
where distinguished by his powers of oratory, he of the three ecclesiastical divisions of the French
vigorously opposed the anti-Catholic policy of possession of this name in Indo-China. By a decree
Combes and Waldeck-Rousseau. When, after the of 1 July, 1907, the most northerly provmce of this
separation, the Government expelled the Arch- vicariate, the region of Phan-thiet, was united to
bishop of Paris from his palace, Denys Cochin the vicariate apostolic of Western Cochin China
placed his magnificent residence in the rue de because of the difficulty the bishop had in visiting
Babylone at the disposal of Cardinal Richard, it. The present vicar apostolic is Rt. Rev, Damien
M Cochin was a recognised authority on Near- Grangeon, of the Foreign Missions of Paris, b. in
Eastern questions, and was an ardent pleader on Gelles, France, 1857, ordained 1883, appomted 21
behalf of the Armenians and Greeks. In 1914, when March, 1902, titular Bishop of Utina. He was as-
the French Government withdrew from Paris to sisted by Rt. Rev. Constante-Philomene Yean-