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ANGLICAN OHUECHES. 



In Africa. Cape Town (metropolitan), Mau- 

 ritius, Grahamstown, St. Helena, Orange Eiver 

 State, Central Africa, Natal, Sierra Leone, Ni- 

 ger region. 



In Australia and Polynesia. Sydney (me- 

 tropolitan), Adelaide, Melbourne, New Castle, 

 Perth, Brisbane; Goulburn, Tasmania, New 

 Zealand (metropolitan), Christ Church, Nelson, 

 Wellington, "Waiaku, Dunedin, Melanesia, Ho- 

 nolulu, Grafton, and Armidale. 



In America. Montreal (metropolitan), To- 

 ronto, Newfoundland, Fredericton, Nova Sco- 

 tia, Huron, Columbia, Quebec, Ontario, Eu- 

 pert's Land, New Westminster. Jamaica, Bar- 

 badoes, Antigua, Nassau, Guiana. 



The following table gives the names of the 

 dioceses of the Church of England, the (total, 

 not Anglican) population of the territory over 

 which the diocese extends, and the number of 

 the clergy and parishes in each : 



The Triennial General Convention of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church of the United 

 States met in the city of New York, on the 

 Tth of October. The new Diocese of Nebraska 

 was admitted after considerable debate on the 

 use of the word " council " instead of conven- 

 tion in the journal of its diocesan convention. 

 The resolution of admission was, however, un- 

 conditional, making no reference to these 

 terms. Four new dioceses were erected, one 

 from the Diocese of Maryland (embracing the 

 Eastern Shore of Maryland), two from the Dio- 

 cese of New York (the one embracing Long 

 Island, and the other the nineteen counties 



of New York, north of the southerly bounda- 

 ries of Columbia, Greene, and Delaware Coun- 

 ties), and one from the Diocese of Western 

 New York. The election of the Eev. C. F. 

 Eobertson, as Bishop of the Diocese of Mis- 

 souri, was confirmed, and two missionary bish- 

 ops, the Eev. B. W. Morris for Oregon and 

 Washington Territories, and the Eev. O. W. 

 Whitaker for Nevada, were appointed. A 

 canon was passed in regard to the formation 

 of new dioceses, the main provisions of which 

 are as follows: 1. Satisfactory evidence is to be 

 submitted to the General Convention that ade- 

 quate provision has been made for the support 

 of the episcopate. 2. There must be within the 

 limits of the new diocese at least six parishes 

 and as many presbyters who have been canon- 

 ically resident in the diocese at least one year. 

 3. There must be left in the old diocese at least 

 twelve parishes and twelve presbyters. 4. There 

 shall be but one bishop in any city. Dioceses 

 existing within the bounds of any State were 

 authorized to establish for themselves a fed- 

 erate council or convention, to decide and de- 

 liberate upon the common interests of the 

 Church within the limits of their State, pro- 

 vided the powers they propose to exercise are 

 approved by the General Convention before 

 determinate action is taken. The canon on 

 parochial boundaries was amended by adding 

 to the second clause of the sixth section the 

 following words : " But nothing in this clause 

 shall be construed to prevent any clergyman 

 of this Church from officiating in any parish 

 church, or in any place of public worship used 

 by any congregation of this Church, or else- 

 where within the parochial cure . of the minis- 

 ter of said congregation, with the consent of 

 the clergyman in charge of such congregation, 

 or, in his absence, of the churchwardens and 

 vestrymen or trustees of such congregation, or 

 a majority of them." The eleventh canon was 

 repealed, and the following substituted in its 

 place: "No minister in charge of any con- 

 gregation of this Church, or in case of vacancy 

 or absence, no churchwardens, vestrymen, or 

 trustees of the congregation, shall permit any 

 person to officiate therein without sufficient 

 evidence of his being duly licensed or ordained 

 to minister in this Church. Provided that 

 nothing herein shall be so construed as to for- 

 bid communicants of the Church* to act as lay 

 readers." The clergymen of the Church of 

 England in Canada were recognized as admis- 

 sible to all the rights and privileges of their 

 brethren of the Church in the United States. 

 With reference to propositions for union witn 

 other branches of the Church, the House of Bish- 

 ops were authorized to appoint a committee 

 from among their own number, which shall be 

 an organ of communication with the other 

 branches of the Church, and with the different 

 other Christian bodies who may desire infor- 

 mation or conference on the subject ; the said 

 committee to be entitled "The commission 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 



