Editing Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (section)

==Modern era==
[[File:Confession(allg).JPG|thumb|A Capuchin friar/priest ready to administer the [[Sacrament of Penance|Sacrament of Reconciliation]] (confession).|alt=]]
Like all other Orders, the Capuchins suffered severely from the [[secularization]]s and revolutions of the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th; but they survived the strain, and during the latter part of the 19th century rapidly recovered ground.<ref name=EB1911/> At the beginning of the 20th century there were fifty provinces with some 500 friaries and 300 hospices or lesser houses; and the number of Capuchin friars, including [[lay brother]]s, was reckoned at 9,500. The Capuchins still keep up their missionary work and have some 200 missionary stations in all parts of the world—notably [[India]], [[Ethiopia]], and parts of the former [[Ottoman Empire]]. Though "the poorest of all Orders", it has attracted into its ranks an extraordinary number of the highest nobility and even of royalty. The celebrated [[Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer)|Theobald Mathew]], the apostle of [[Catholic Temperance movement|Temperance]] in Ireland, was a Capuchin friar.<ref name=EB1911/>

In the [[Imperial Crypt]], underneath the [[Capuchin Church, Vienna|Church of the Capuchins]] in [[Vienna]], over 140 members of the [[Habsburg|Habsburg dynasty]] are buried. The most recent burial in the [[crypt]] was in 2011 for [[Otto von Habsburg]], the last [[List of heirs to the Austrian throne|crown prince of Austria-Hungary]] and eldest son of the last [[Austrian Emperor]], the [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Karl I of Austria|Charles of Austria]].

{{As of|2018|18}}, there were 10,480 Capuchins worldwide, of whom 7,070 were [[priest (Catholic Church)|priest]]s, living and working in 108 countries around the world: Africa: 1,357; South America: 1,657; North America: 664; Asia-Oceania: 2,339; Western Europe: 3,500; Central-Eastern Europe: 769.<ref>statistical data from <nowiki>'</nowiki>''Analecta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum'', [[Rome|Roma]]</ref> In [[Great Britain]] there are currently five Capuchin friaries, and eight in [[Ireland]].

The worldwide head of the Order, called the [[Minister General (Franciscan)|Minister General]], is currently [[Friar]] Roberto Genuin.

===India===

The community of [[Bettiah Christians]] was founded after a Capuchin friar Joseph Mary cured the queen of [[Bettiah]] of a malady and was invited by Maharaja Dhurup Singh of the [[Bettiah Raj]] to stay. This appointment that was approved by [[Pope Benedict XIV]] on 1 May 1742.<ref name="UCA2020">{{cite web |title=Diocese of Bettiah |url=https://www.ucanews.com/directory/dioceses/india-bettiah/50 |publisher=[[Union of Catholic Asian News]] |access-date=15 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

===United States===
[[File:Capuchinos de Paraguay.JPG|thumb|Capuchin friars in [[Paraguay]], wearing the traditional Franciscan [[religious habit|habit]].]]

The United States has six provinces throughout the country. Together with the two provinces in Canada, the province of Australia and the Custody of the Mariana Islands/Hawaii they form the North American-Pacific Capuchin Conference (NAPCC).

====Foundation====
The '''Province of St. Joseph''', originally the province of Calvary, headquartered in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]], was one of the first two Capuchin Provinces to be established in the country in 1882. It was founded by Francis Haas (1826–1895) and Bonaventure Frey (1831–1912), two [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[diocesan priest]]s who arrived in the United States in September 1856, and were received into the then-[[Archdiocese of Milwaukee|Diocese of Milwaukee]] by [[Bishop]] [[John Henni]], also a Swiss immigrant, and given charge of St. Nicholas Parish which they renamed Mount Calvary. They were later admitted to the Capuchin Order on December 2, 1857, by Antoine Gauchet of the Swiss Province who had been sent to admit them in order to establish the Order in the United States.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/06/28/102516106.pdf | work=The New York Times | title=FATHER HAAS'S LABORS IN WISCONSIN; The Introducer of the Capuchin Order in the United States | date=28 June 1895}}</ref> The friars started [[St. Lawrence Seminary High School]] in 1861 at [[Mount Calvary, Wisconsin]], a school that is still owned and operated by the Capuchin Order.

One of the friars of this province, [[Solanus Casey]], was noted for the holiness of his life, serving as the [[porter (doorkeeper)|porter]] of several Capuchin friaries both in Michigan and [[New York City]] for decades. As a miraculous healing attributed to him was approved by [[Pope Francis]] in mid-2017, he was beatified in [[Detroit]] at [[Ford Field]] on November 18, 2017. This is significant because Casey could become the first male American-born Saint in the history of the Catholic Church. He had previously been declared [[Venerable]] in 1995 by [[Pope John Paul II]]. His tomb is in [[St. Bonaventure Monastery]] in Detroit, and is visited by thousands every year.

{{As of|2011}}, the province has 23 communities spread throughout the [[American Midwest]], reaching from [[Michigan]] to [[Arizona]]. Additionally, there are friars of this province working in [[Central America]], with a community serving in the [[Middle East]].<ref name="thecapuchins.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.thecapuchins.org/|title=Capuchin Franciscan Province of St Joseph|website=capuchins.org|access-date=2016-06-17}}</ref>

====Other jurisdictions====
[[File:St. Francis Friary DC.JPG|thumb|St. Francis Friary – Capuchin College in Washington, D.C. (St. Augustine Province)]]

* '''St. Joseph''' or '''Calvary''' (1882), based in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], covering the upper Midwest, from Detroit to [[Montana]] and from which came Blessed [[Solanus Casey]].
* '''St. Augustine''' (1882), based in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], to which Cardinal [[Seán Patrick O'Malley|Sean O'Malley]] belongs.
* '''Stigmata''' (ca. 1913), based in [[Union City, New Jersey]], founded by friars from the [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] region of [[Italy]] with 8 communities on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]], with friaries in [[Beacon, New York]], [[Hackensack, New Jersey]], [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], [[Wilmington, Delaware]] (2), [[Atlanta, Georgia]], and [[Miami, Florida]]. 
* '''St. Mary''' of [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[New England]] (1952), based in [[White Plains, New York]], with 18 fraternities on the East Coast, covering [[New England]] and [[New York (state)|New York]]. They supervise the Custody of Japan and the Custody of Guam.
* '''St. Conrad''' or Mid-America (1977), based in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], serving [[Illinois]], Colorado, [[Kansas]], [[Missouri]] and Texas, with missionaries in [[Papua New Guinea]]; a friar of this province, [[Charles J. Chaput]], was installed as the [[Archbishop of Philadelphia]] on 8 September 2011.<ref name="capuchins.org">{{cite web|url=https://capuchins.org/our-history/|title=Capuchin Franciscans, Province of St Conrad|access-date=2016-06-17|website=capuchins.org}}</ref>
* '''Our Lady of Angels''' (1979), Western America, based in [[Burlingame, California]]. Seven communities in California, with four communities in [[Mexico]] which became the Custody of St. [[Juan Diego]] in December 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://olacapuchins.org/index.php|title=Capuchin Franciscans, Western America Province|website=capuchins.org|access-date=2016-06-17}}</ref>
* '''Our Lady, Star of the Sea Vice-Province'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vocation Directors {{!}} North American Pacific Capuchin Conference |url=https://napcc.net/vocation-directors#our-lady-star-of-the-sea-vice-province |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=napcc.net}}</ref>'''/Custody''' (1982), [[Guam]] and [[Hawaii]], this division is dependent on St. Mary Province.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Sister Malia Dominica, OP. |date=2021-12-22 |title=Father Michel Dalton, Capuchin Franciscans: Crazy, holy, joyful |url=https://hawaiicatholicherald.com/2021/12/22/father-michel-dalton-capuchin-franciscans-crazy-holy-joyful/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Hawaii Catholic Herald |language=en-US}}</ref>