GREEK CHURCH. 



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prominent men in Greece, especially with 

 Messrs. Bulgaria, Deljannis, and Grivas. After 

 In- ha. I 1.. -MI nominated by the synod to the 

 !iivhl>i.s|io|>ric ho suddenly encountered obsta- 

 cles, which he was advised to overcome by 

 means <if a MUM of money. He declared to his 

 friend A nthimus that he would rather lose his 

 appointment than obtain it by such means. 

 Antliimus, however, would not agree to this, 

 and, without consulting him further, and 

 against his expressed refusal to pay any money, 

 had paid to the minister Valassupulos 10,000 

 drachmas, which had been borrowed for the 

 expenses of his installation. After his nomi- 

 nation he desired to make a present to Bul- 

 garia, but the latter refused it. Kompothekras, 

 Archbishop of Cephaloriia, refused to say any- 

 thing in his defense. The defendants, Clmri- 

 takis and Oekonomopulos, denied absolutely 

 that they had had any part in the corrupt 

 transactions. The two ministers and the three 

 archbishops were all found guilty of the 

 offenses charged against them, and sentenced, 

 April 13th, us follows: Valassapulos, former 

 Minister of Worship, to one year's imprison- 

 ment, deprivation of political rights for three 

 years, and to j>ny over the sum he had received 

 as a bribe to the poorhouses ; Nikolopulos, ex- 

 Minister of Justice, to an imprisonment of ten 

 months ; the Archbishop of Cephalonia to a 

 fine of 10,000, the Archbishop of Patras to a 

 fine of 4,400, and the Archbishop of Mes- 

 sene to a fine of 4,000 drachmas, these be- 

 ing double the several amounts they had 

 paid as bribes. The Synod of the Church also 

 imposed an interdiction of three years upon 

 each of the bishops, during which time their 

 dioceses should be managed by commissioners. 

 The deputy of the King at the synod declined to 

 sign this judgment, regarding it as too severe. 



Early in January a new convention with the 

 L.iurion Mining Company was approved by the 

 Chamber of Deputies, under which the taxation 

 on the clear proceeds of the silver-bearing ores 

 was reduced from fifty-three per cent, to ten 

 per cent. 



GREEK CHURCH. The following table 

 gives a statistical account of the clergy of the 

 Greek Church for 1876 : 



monks and nuns, to the total population, U an 



follows: 





The proportion of the secular clergy, and 



In Russia, according to the report for 1874 

 of the President of the Holy Synod, there 

 were 56 dioceses ; in the exarchate of Georgia 

 connected with it since, 3 dioceses; in Amer- 

 ica there is a mission under the Bishop of 

 "the Aleutian Islands and Alaska.'' On the 

 81st of December, 1873, there were 40,364 

 churches and 13,386 chapels. During the year 

 1874 there were built 419 churches and 140 

 chapels, at a cost of 699,591 rubles (about 

 $600,000), a third part of which was given by 

 the Government, about two-thirds from the 

 funds devoted to religious instruction, some 

 little being added from the local revenues of 

 the bishops. The Orthodox inhabitants of the 

 empire at the close of 1873 were reported as 

 55,777,152. (There were no returns received 

 up to that date from the dioceses of Kam- 

 tchatka and Tomsk, or from the army and 

 navy.) The births, marriages, and deaths, in 

 the Orthodox Church (except in the diocese 

 of Kamtchatka and the eparchy of Georgia, 

 concerning which the reports were not in) 

 were: Births, 3.272.414, of which, 1,667,949 

 were males ; marriages, 602,427 ; deaths, 

 1,223,209 male?, 1,155,986 females in all, 

 2,379,195 The ecclesiastical educational es- 

 tablishments were 242 ; 186 being ecclesiasti- 

 cal schools, 52 seminaries, and 4 ecclesiastical 

 academies, these latter being nt St. Petersburg, 

 Moscow, Kiev, and Kazan. One hundred and 

 twenty-eight professors and teachers were em- 

 ployed in the academies, 850 in the seminaries, 

 and 1,560 in the schools. The scholars num- 

 bered respectively 562, 12,396, and 26,227; 

 603 in the academies. 6,201 in the seminaries, 

 and 9,480 in the schools receiving aid. The 

 parochial schools numbered 7,722, with 165,889 

 male scholars, and 27,874 females. During 

 1874 there were 9,033 converts to Orthodoxy, 

 1,707 of these from Romanism; 11 had been 

 Armenians, 732 Protestants, 2,890 schismat- 

 ics from the Orthodox Church, 427 .lews. 747 

 Mohammedans, and 2,519 idolaters. In 1876 

 Bishop Bugnion, of the Greek Church, made 

 arrangements with the Government of S< nth 

 Australia for the introduction of 40,000 adults 

 of the same religious faith as himself into the 

 Northern Territory, who were then residing 

 in South Russia, Mauritius, America, and In- 

 dia. The immigrants were to receive grants 

 of land at a small rental, and at the end of ten 

 years have the fee simple. 



