ANGLICAN" CHURCHES. 



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The general statistical summary was as fol- 

 lows: 



Dioceses 39 



Bishops 47 



Bishops-elect 2" 



Priests and deacons 2,687 



Whole number of clergy 2,736 



Parishes 2,472 



Ordinations Deacons 108 



Priests 98 



Total 206 



Candidates for orders 331 



Churches consecrated 38 



Baptisms Infants 26,835 



Adults 7,067 



Not stated 1,800 



Total 35,702 



Confirmations 21,958 



Communicants increase in 27 dioceses 



during past y0ar. . . 14,365 



Present number 194,692 



Marriages 9,945 



Burials 15,346 



Sunday-school teachers 21,711 



Scholars 194,046 



Contributions $4,457,888 28 



The receipts of the Board of Missions, in its 

 domestic department, during the years 1867 

 and 1868, were $138,367 : from legacies, 

 $9,005; in the foreign department, $63,369; 

 from legacies, $3,558. The domestic depart- 

 ment employs 162 missionaries. The statis- 

 tics of the foreign department are as follows : 



* Taken from the Convention Journal of 1867. 

 t Estimated. 



Stations, 28 ; missionaries, foreign, 17 ; native, 

 14 ; assistants, 42 ; teachers and catechists, 35 ; 

 candidates for orders, 10; day-scholars, 1,300; 

 Sunday-school scholars, 900; baptisms, 97; 

 confirmations, 117; communicants, 628. The 

 missions of the Board are in Liberia, China, 

 Japan, and Hayti. The American Church Mis- 

 sionary Society reported, in 1868, an income of 

 $89,406, 'being an increase of $7,081 from the 

 previous year. This society employs 109 mis- 

 sionaries in the United States, and'l in South 

 America. The receipts of the Evangelical 

 Education Society amounted to $34,837, and 

 had, at the end of the financial year (the sec- 

 ond of its existence), 130 students dependent 

 upon it for means to enable them to prepare 

 for the ministry. The Society for the Increase 

 of the Ministry had an income of about $26,- 

 000; the Evangelical Knowledge Society, of 

 $44,635. 



In Ireland there are two archbishops and 

 ten bishops, divided among the two provinces 

 as follows : Armagh. Armagh, Derry, Down, 

 Kilmore, Meath, Tuam. Dublin. Dublin, 

 Cashel, Cloyne, Killaloe, Limerick, Ossory. 



Outside of the United Kingdom the following 

 dioceses are in connection with the Church of 

 England : 



In Europe. Gibraltar. 



In Asm. Calcutta (metropolitan), Bombay, 

 Labuan and Sarawack, Madras, Colombo, Vic- 

 toria; Jerusalem. 



