

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHI 



699 



The following is a general statistical sum- 

 mary of the Church : 



Dioceses 43 



Missionary jurisdictions 18 



Bishops 50 



Priests and deacons 8,085 



Whole number of clergy 3,140 



Parishes, about a,75o 



Ordinations deacons (in 28 dioceoes and 



4 mission jurisdictions) 127 



Priests (In 24 dioceses) 102 



Total (in 82 dioceses and 1 



mission jurisdiction) 229 



Candidates for deacons' order (in 26 dio- 



ceses and 4 mission jurlpdictlons) a: ;J 



Churches consecrated (in 20 dioceses and 1 



mission jurisdiction) 54 



Baptism total (in 86 dioceses and 7 mis- 

 sion jurisdictions) 41,999 



Confirmations (in 38 dioceses and 6 mission 



jurisdictions) 26,888 



Communicants Number reported in 40 

 dioceses and 7 mission 



jurisdictions 273,551 



Marriages (In 36 dioceses and 7 mission ju- 

 risdictions) 10,713 



Sunday-school teachers (in 36 dioceses and 



4 mission jurisdictions) . . . 23,007 

 Scholars (in 88 dioceses and 



5 mission jurisdictions)... aa:>.7 ::; 

 Contributions (in 38 dioceses and 7 mission 



jurisdictions) $6.861,08327 



The Triennial General Contention of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church in tin; United 

 States met in the city of New York, < ' 

 7th. The opening sermon wns prui< I,, cl l>v 

 th- Kt. i:,-v. Dr. Kelwyn, Lord liishnp of I.i. h- 

 Held, England. The House of Deputies wa 

 <>r_':ini/,-<l \:\ tin- el,-cti..n - I i!,. I:,-., fa* 

 Craik, I). I)., of Kentucky, president at the 

 preceding General Convention, as president, 

 and of the Rev. Dr. William Stevens Perry as 

 MTivtary. The Lord Bishop of Lichfield, the 

 Bishop of Montreal, and Metropolitan of Can- 

 ada, the Lords Bishops of Kingston, W. I., and 

 of Quebec, and several other foreign clergy- 

 ni. -n, were introduced to the Convention, and 

 wore invited to attend npon its sessions. A 

 telegram was received from the Bishop of Chi- 

 chester, conveying the greetings of the Church 

 Congress of the Church of England, in session 

 at Brighton, to which a suitable response was 

 voted. The Bishop of Lichfield. previous to 

 addressing the Convention upon his introduc- 

 tion to it, presented addresses from the arch- 

 deaconries of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and 

 Shropshire. He also offered an invitation on 

 behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the 

 Convention to take part in the holding of a 

 second Pan-Anglican Synod, representing all 

 the branches of the Anglican and Episcopal 

 Churches, for consultation upon questions and 

 interests common to them all. The following 

 resolution was adopted as the answer of the 

 Convention to this invitation : 



Whereat, In the address of the Right Rev. the 

 Lord Bishop of Lichfleld, made to this liouse on the 

 occasion ol his formal presentation on the 9th in- 

 stant, as well as in the address of the Most Rev. the 

 Metropolitan of Canada and the Bishops of Kingston 

 and Quebec upon the same occasion, reference was 

 made to the probable reassembling of a Lambeth 

 Conference at an early day, including an intimation 

 that an expression of the sentiment of this Church 

 upon the subject might possibly facilitate the con- 

 vening of the second session of this Conference : 

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Resolved. That all exchange of greetings, all evi- 

 dence of the existence of the unity of the Spirit in 

 the bond of peace between the Church of Lngland 

 and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, 

 whether by bishops in conference or otherwise, are 

 especially welcome to this Church. 



The convention were informed that a joint 

 committee had been appointed by the Provin- 

 cial Synod of Canada to confer with a similar 

 committee of the Church in the United States, 

 on the best measures to promote intercom- 

 munion and fellowship between the sister 

 Churches. A committee of three bishops, 

 three presbyters, and three laymen, was ap- 

 pointed to confer with the Canadian com- 

 mittee on the subject named. This committee 

 held a conference with the delegation from 

 Canada, made a report of it to the convention, 

 and was continued until the next General Con- 

 vention. 



The convention was called upon to pass 

 upon the ratification of the election of the Rev. 

 Edward R. Welles, D. D., as the Bishop of Wis- 

 consin, and the Rev. George F. Seymour, D. D., 



