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GREEK CHURCH. 



GUATEMALA. 



of the prominent Servians protested against his 

 appointment as an illegal act, because they de- 

 nied the right of the Government to appoint 

 an administrator of the patriarchate. In Oc- 

 tober, 1880, the assemblies of the eparchies 

 (dioceses) generally demanded the immediate 

 convocation of the Servian Church Cougress. 

 The majority of the bishops have been gained 

 over by the Magyar Government, and take 

 side against the demands of the national Servian 

 party. The Greek Church of the Roumanian 

 nationality in the lands of the Hungarian crown 

 has, until 1880, been on better terms with the 

 Magyar Government. But the new elections, 

 held in 1880, for the Roumanian Church Con- 

 gress resulted in favor of the nationalists, and 

 the Hungarian Government has now adopted 

 the same hostile policy against the Roumanians 

 which has for several years been pursued with 

 regard to the Servians. The Roumanian Church 

 Congress was to have met on October 13, 1880, 

 at Hermannstadt. But a few days before, the 

 Metropolitan Miron countermanded the con- 

 vocation of the Church Congress, and the Rou- 

 manian nationalists generally denounce him as 

 a tool of the Magyar Government. 



In the Synod of the Municipality of Rou- 

 mania, which met in November, 1880, Bishop 

 Ghenadie, of Argesh, moved the establishment 

 of a theological faculty, and declared his readi- 

 ness to devote a considerable portion of his 

 revenues for this purpose. The lower clergy 

 of Roumania are generally in a deplorable con- 

 dition. Their income is utterly insufficient, 

 and they are generally destitute of theological 

 knowledge. 



Russian papers give the following statistics 

 as to the number of persons belonging to the 

 Orthodox Eastern Church in the western part 

 of the United States : There are in the diocese 

 of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, including 

 about 200 Slavs and Greeks at San Francisco, 

 11,572 members of the Eastern Church. The 

 church-buildings are nine in number, including 

 one at San Francisco. 



The head of the Russian mission in Japan, 

 the Rev. Nicolas Kassatkine, was, in 1880, con- 

 secrated as missionary bishop for Japan. He 

 has been laboring in Japan as a missionary 

 since 1861, when he was sent there for the 

 avowed purpose of exploring the country with 

 a view to religious propaganda. He gave eight 

 years' preparation to this work, studying the 

 language and manners of the country, and 

 translating into Japanese several of the sacred 

 books of the Russian Church. In 1869 he had, 

 however, converted only three persons. As his 

 confidence in the success of his work was un- 

 bounded, he returned to Russia for the purpose 

 of soliciting the establishment in Japan of a 

 religious mission. He obtained it, and since 

 his return to Japan the conversions have for 

 ten years continued to increase. In 1875 there 

 were already in the empire 500 Orthodox- 

 Greek Christians ; a year after, more than 1,000; 

 in 1878, 4,115; and in 1880 they numbered 



more than 6,000. In the summer of 1878 there 

 were six priests and 88 unconsecrated Japanese 

 preachers working for the propagation of the 

 Orthodox- Greek faith. Among the native 

 priests, the most prominent, from his influ- 

 ence and the persecutions to which he has been 

 subjected, is a converted bonze, named Paul 

 Savabe. 



GUATEMALA (REP^BLICA DE GUATEMALA.), 

 the most westerly of the five independent states 

 of Central America. For statistics relating to 

 area, population, etc., reference may be made 

 to the " Annual Cyclopedia " for 1875. Here 

 follows a list of the twenty-two departments 

 into which the republic is divided, and their 

 capitals : 



DEPARTMENTS. Capitals. 



Guatemala Guatemala. 



Amatitlan Amatitlan. 



Escuintla ... Escuintla. 



Sacatepequez . . 

 Chimaltenango , 



Solola 



Totonicapan 



Suchitepequez., 

 Eetalhulen 



Antigua Guatemala. 



Chimaltenango. 



Solola. 



Totonicapan. 



Mazatenango. 



Retalhulen. 



Quezaltenango Quezaltenango. 



San Marcos San Marcos. 



Huehuetenango Huehuetenango. 



Quiche Santa Cruz del Quich6. 



Santa Eosa Cuajiniquilapa. 



Jutiapa Jutiapa. 



Jalapa Jalapa. 



Chiquimula Chiquimula. 



Zacapa Zacapa. 



Izabal Izabal. 



Alta Verapaz Coban. 



Baja Verapaz Salama. 



Peten La Libertad, or Sacluk. 



The President of the Republic is General 

 Rufino Barrios, elected May 7, 1873, and re- 

 elected in 1880 for a period of six years. The 

 Cabinet was composed of the following Minis- 

 ters : Interior and Justice, Sefior Don Fernando 

 Cruz; Foreign Affairs, Dr. L. Montiifar; War, 

 Finance, and Public Credit, Sefior Don J. M. 

 Barrundia; Public Instruction, Senor Don Del- 

 fino Sanchez ; Public Works, Sefior Don M. 

 Herrera. 



The Guatemala Minister to the United States 

 is Sefior Don A. Ubico, accredited in 1880; 

 and the Consul- General (for the Union) at New 

 York is Sefior Don Jacobo Baiz. 



The United States Minister (resident in Gua- 

 temala and accredited to the five Central Amer- 

 ican republics) is Dr. Cornelius A. Logan ; and 

 the United States Consul (at Guatemala City), 

 Mr. J. F. Medina. 



The armed force of the Republic comprises 

 3,200 men in active service, and 15,225 militia. 



The finances of the country are by general 

 report in a prosperous state. The revenue has 

 of late years fallen little short of $5,000,000, 

 while the ordinary expenditures are for the 

 most part below that limit. The total amount 

 of the national debt on January 1, 1879, was 

 set down at $5,369,529. According to returns 

 published in 1880, by the manager-general of 

 the Treasury, the portion of the home debt 

 redeemable by forty per cent, of the customs' 

 receipts (import branch) had been reduced by 

 $66,617.85, and stood at $1,408,578.68 on July 



