636 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



congregational receipts for the year were, 

 113,218 5*. Oi&, being 19,616 13s. 8d. more 

 than for the preceding year. The sum of 

 25,262 17s. Ta. had been contributed for the 

 new sustentation fund in lieu of the Hegium 

 Donum. The sum of 434,790, transferred 

 from the Temporalities Commissioners to the 

 General Assembly's trustees, has been invest- 

 ed in landed securities, and stocks and bonds. 

 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

 The Church Almanac, for 1872, gives the fol- 

 lowing statistical summary of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church in the United States for the 

 year 1871 : 



Dioceses 41 



Missionary jurisdictions 9 



Bishops 53 



Priests and deacons 2,847 



Whole number of clergy 2,900 



Parishes, about 2,700 



Ordinations Deacons in thi rty dioceses 108 



Priests in twenty-six dioceses and 

 one missionary jurisdiction 109 



Total in thirty-two dioceses and one 



missionary jurisdiction 217 



Candidates for orders in thirty-one dioceses 416 



Churches consecrated in twenty -four dioceses. . . 83 



Baptisms Infants in thirty-seven dioceses and 



three niissionary jurisdictions 30,649 



Adults in thirty-seven dioceses and 



three missionary jurisdictions 7.021 



Not specified in two dioceses and one 



mission 1,371 



Total in thirty-nine dioceses and six 



missionary jurisdictions 39,197 



Confirmations in thirty-nine dioceses and four 



missionary jurisdictions 23,253 



Communicants Number reported in thirty-nine 

 dioceses and six missionary ju- 

 risdictions 232,354 



Marriages in thirty-nine dioceses and six mis- 

 sionary jurisdictions 10,202 



Burials in thirty-nine dioceses and six mission- 

 ary jurisdictions 18,171 



Sunday-school teachers in thirty-four dioceses 



and five missionary jurisdictions 24,268 

 Scholars in thirty-seven dioceses 



and five missionary jurisdictions 221,200 

 Contributions in thirty-five dioceses and four 



missionary jurisdictions... $5,015,493 06 



The following table exhibits the number of 

 clergymen, parishes, baptisms, communicants, 

 teachers, and scholars of Sunday-schools, and 

 the amount of missionary and charitable con- 

 tributions for each diocese : 



The first Wednesday in October (October 

 4, 1871) being the day designated by the con- 

 stitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 



in the United States of America, for holding 

 its Triennial General Convention, pursuant to 

 the appointment of the last General Conven- 



