MUNDELEIN, George William, American Roman Catholic archbishop: b. New York, 2 July 1872. He studied first at the De La Salle Institute and later at Manhattan College, after which he began his theological course at Saint Vincent's Seminary, Beatty, Pa., completing it at the Urban College of the Propaganda in Rome. Ordained to the priesthood in Rome 8 June 1895, he became assistant secretary to Bishop McDonnell of Brooklyn, N. Y., being appointed diocesan chancellor in 1897, which office he held for 12 years. In 1903 Father Mundelein was named censor of the Liturgical Academy; in 1906 was elevated to the rank of domestic prelate and in 1908 received from the Propaganda the degrees of licentiate of sacred theology and doctor of divinity. Monsignor Mundelein was consecrated titular bishop of Loryma and auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn 21 Sept. 1909 and on 15 Dec. 1915 was promoted to the archiepiscopal see of Chicago, receiving the pallium at the hands of Archbishop Tohn Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, 9 Feb. 1916. Archbishop Mundelein is a distinguished liturgist and theologian and a linguist of marked ability and as metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Chicago is shepherd of over 1,150,000 souls.
MtJNDEN, miiilden, Prussia, town in the government district Hildesheim, located on the confluence of the Werra and Fulda with the Weser. It is the junction of the Hanover-Elze Cassel and the Nordhausen-Miinden state rail ways. The neighborhood has romantic forests and contains two Lutheran churches, the Blasii kirche dating from 1263 has a monument to Erich II of Brunswick, besides a Catholic, a Reformed church and a synagogue. There are also an ancient castle with a museum, an Im perial academy of forestry, a gymnasium, a realprogymnasium, etc. Its industries include rubber works, wooden and lead ware, leather, tobacco and cigar factories, also factories pro ducing cellulose, artificial manures, glass-paper, a sugar refinery, boiler factory, etc. Consider able commerce is carried on in lumber and ship ping. In 1910 it had 10,991 inhabitants.