A History of the Catholic Church in the Dioceses of Pittsburg and Allegheny 1880 Andrew Arnold Lambing

Title: A History of the Catholic Church in the Dioceses of Pittsburg and Allegheny from Its Establishment to the Present Time

Author: A. A. [Andrew Arnold] Lambing

Description: Publishers dark teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Bit of wear to spine ends; corners bumped and shelf worn; thin nick to cloth on spine. Light cracking to paper of inner hinges. Small penciled price on ffep and dark toned area on two facing pages where old newspaper had been laid in, else internally clean and unmarked. Frontispiece illustration. pp. 531, plus [1] ad.

A scarce copy of Lambing's history of the western Pennsylvania dioceses of Pittsburg and Allegheny.

Andrew Arnold Lambing (1842-1918) was one the foremost priest-historians in the United States. In 1884, he founded its first Catholic historical society, the Ohio Valley Catholic Historical Society, and in that same year began publishing the country's first Catholic historical journal, Historical Researches in Western Pennsylvania—Principally Catholic, renamed in 1886 to American Catholic Historical Researches. He also served for some years as the President of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society. Lambing had attended St. Michael's Theological Seminary, Glenwood, Pittsburg and was ordained in 1869. He served as pastor of the Church of St. Mary of Mercy, at the Point (Pittsburg), from 1874 to 1885, and was pastor of St. James’, Wilkinsburg from 1885 until his death. In 1915, he was bestowed with the honorific title of Monsignor by Pope Benedict XV.


Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Benziger Brothers
Place: New York, Cincinnati, and St. Louis
Year: 1880

Keywords: Diocese of Pittsburg, Diocese of Allegheny, western Pennsylvania, Catholicism,