The Irish Carmelite, Fr. Michael Moore, while on a visit to New York City in 1887, received from Fr. James McMahon the promise of an endowed foundation at a specified location in that city. Archbishop Michael Corrigan considered the area designated to have enough churches for its population. When efforts to change the Archbishop's mind failed, the Irish Provincial, Fr. John Bartley, came to see Mgr. Corrigan. Refusing to change his position on the endowment, Archbishop Corrigan offered Bartley a new parish to be separated from St. Stephen's and to include the care of Bellevue Hospital. Fr. Bartley returned to New York City in March, 1889 with three other Carmelites to begin the parish of Our Lady of the Scapular on East 28th Street.
The Province is the basic unit of the life and activity of the Order. It consists of the friars who belong to it, gathered in several houses and governed by a Prior Provincial with his Council, in accordance with the norms of canon law and with the Order's own laws (Carmelite Constitutions 179). At this moment the Carmelite Order has 19 Provinces in the world.
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