GREEK CHURCH. 



GREGORY, DUDLEY S. 



the Government, Bishop Gruitch, receiving 

 only seven votes. The new election inspired 

 all the more confidence, as Bishop Ivacskovitch, 

 as head of the Church of the Roumanian na- 

 tionality, had already had some experience in 

 the administration of a similar position. Be- 

 fore the separation of the Church of the Rou- 

 manian from that of the Servian nationality, 

 he had been Bishop of Arad, and, when that 

 diocese became a part of the Roumanian Church 

 province, he had remained its bishop ; and, al- 

 though of the Servian nationality, had gained 

 the confidence of the Roumanians to such an 

 extent that they elected him, in 1873, their 

 metropolitan. Although the Hungarian Gov- 

 ernment was by no means pleased with the re- 

 sult of the second election, it deemed it best 

 this time not to withhold its sanction, and ac- 

 cordingly Bishop Ivacskovitch was, on August 

 18th, the birthday of the Emperor, installed as 

 Patriarch of the Servian nationality by pom- 

 pous solemnities. The Synod of the Servian 

 bishops, which could now be convoked under 

 the presidency of the patriarch, filled the va- 

 cant sees of Temesvar and Carlstadt by the 

 election of the priests Yoinovitch and Zsioko- 

 vitch, both of whom were confirmed by the 

 Government. The Church Congress reassem- 

 bled on October 5th. The leader of the nation- 

 al party, Dr. Miletitch, objected to a proposition 

 of the patriarch to invite the royal commis- 

 sioner to the meetings of the Congress ; the 

 objection was, however, withdrawn, when the 

 patriarch assured the Congress that he and not 

 the commissioner would preside at the Con- 

 gress. The commissioner laid before the Con- 

 gress the report of the Episcopal Synod on 

 the statute concerning the organization of the 

 Church Congress, which the Hungarian Gov- 

 ernment had referred to the Episcopal Synod 

 for its opinion. The majority of the Congress 

 were any thing but pleased with the report of 

 the bishops, and especially objected to their 

 demand that not only all dogmatical, ritual, 

 and liturgical questions should belong to the 

 exclusive jurisdiction of the Episcopal Synod, 

 but also all questions of church discipline. A 

 committee of fifteen members was elected to 

 examine the report of the bishops, and to pro- 

 pose to this Congress a proper course of action. 

 While the committee was unanimous in the re- 

 jection of some demands of the bishops, it was 

 not altogether opposed to a compromise. The 

 leader of the compromising party, Dr. Maksi- 

 movitch, prepared a new draft of a statute for 

 the composition of this Congress, and the Con- 

 gress expressed its concurrence in the desire 

 for a peaceable solution of the difficulties by 

 rejecting the motion made by Dr. Miletitch to 

 make the statute of 1871 the basis of the dis- 

 cussion. While the bishops demanded that the 

 Congress should regulate the autonomy of the 

 Church only in agreement with the Synod, thus 

 making it dependent upon the concurrence 

 of the Synod, the middle party conceded that 

 the Congress should act in important questions 



only after hearing the opinion of the Synod. 

 After long negotiations, in which the Hun- 

 garian Government took an active part in favor 

 of the bishops, an agreement was attained, in 

 virtue of which disciplinary questions, of a 

 purely ecclesiastical character, were added to 

 the subjects which are under the exclusive 

 jurisdiction of the bishops. The Congress ad- 

 journed on October 26th. 



The National Congress of the Greek Church 

 of the Roumanian nation in the Kingdom of 

 Hungary met on October 27th, at Hermann- 

 stadt, in order to elect another metropolitan 

 and head of the Church in place of Archbishop 

 Ivacskovitch, who had been elected by the 

 Servian Church Congress Patriarch of Carlo- 

 witz. An important innovation in the Greek 

 Oriental Church was the convocation by 

 Bishop Pavel, of Szamos-Ujvar, of a diocesan 

 synod, one-third of the members to be clerical 

 and two-thirds lay delegates. This is believed 

 to be the first diocesan synod of the kind in 

 the Greek Oriental Church. 



The Synod of the Greek Church of Rou- 

 mania met in November, and remained in ses- 

 sion for about six weeks. It passed a resolution 

 to ask the Government to place the entire sys- 

 tem of public instruction under the control of 

 the Church. The Minister of Public Worship 

 conceded to the bishop the right of examining 

 and approving the school-books; but the ques- 

 tion whether the Church was also to control 

 the appointment of the teachers was referred 

 to the Diet. 



GREGORY, DUDLEY SANDFOED, an enter- 

 prising, useful, and philanthropic citizen of 

 Jersey City, N. J., born in Reading, Conn., 

 February 5, 1800 ; died in Jersey City, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1874. In 1808 his father removed to 

 Albany, N. Y., and, young as he was, the boy 

 began to look about for employment. He was 

 at first errand-boy in the Eagle Tavern, but at 

 the age of thirteen he had developed business 

 abilities, which led the then State Controller 

 to take him into that office as a clerk. He re- 

 mained there fourteen years, rising to the po- 

 sition of chief clerk of the Canal Department, 

 and fulfilling all trusts confided to him with 

 such ability and integrity that the position of 

 deputy controller was pressed upon him by 

 Governor Marcy. He declined this, and ac- 

 cepted the general superintendency of Messrs. 

 Yates and Mclntire's lottery business, which 

 was then conducted for the State, for the en- 

 dowment of schools and colleges. He man- 

 aged their business first as their superintendent, 

 and after they retired as their successor, until 

 the legal expiration of the term of the com- 

 mission, a period of ten years, and then settled 

 up the business, which took several years 

 more. Meantime he had removed in 1834 to 

 Jersey City, then a mere hamlet, and set him- 

 self to the work of building up this now large 

 and wealthy suburb of New York. He became 

 one of the "Jersey Associates," and directed 

 their purchases of waste lands which have since 



