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GREEK CHURCH. 



GREENE, WILLIAM B. 



present an annual tribute to the Sultan, is really 

 as independent as Roumania and Servia were 

 before the war of 1877. It must be expected 

 that under a Christian government the Greek 

 Church of this state will awaken to a new 

 life ; and the same may be expected from Bos- 

 nia and Herzegovina, which have been placed 

 under Austrian rule. 



The population connected with the Greek 

 Oriental Church in 1878 may be estimated 

 about as follows : 



Russia .. 60,600.000 



Finland 37,000 



Austro- Hungary 3,180,000 



Bosnia and Herzegovina 600,000 



Koumania 4,800,000 



Servia 1,700,000 



Montenegro 236,000 



Greece 1,442,000 



Bulgaria 1,270,000 



Turkey (without Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Herzego- 

 vina) 3,800,000 



China 5,000 



Japan 5,000 



Total 77,675,000 



The report of Count Tolstoi, Procurator-Gen- 

 eral of the Holy Synod of Russia, on the affairs 

 of the Russian Church during the year 1876, 

 was published in April, 1878. According to 

 this report, there were in 1876 380 monasteries 

 with 10,512 monks, and 147 nunneries with 

 14,574 nuns. The number of cathedral churches 

 was 625 ; of other churches, 39,338 ; of chapels 

 and oratories, 13,594. In the course of the 

 year 323 churches and 170 chapels and ora- 

 tories were built. There were 87 hospitals 

 with 1,192 inmates, and 605 poorhouses with 

 6,763 inmates. The number of persons re- 

 ceived into the Russian Church was 12,340, 

 embracing 1,192 Roman Catholics, 516 United 

 Greeks, 8 Armenians, 688 Protestants, 2,539 

 Rascolniks or Old Believers (1,498 completely 

 united with the Russian Church, and 1,041 re- 

 served the use of the ancient canons), 450 Jews, 

 219 Mohammedans, and 6,728 pagans. The 

 number of divorces was 1,023 ; in 29 cases the 

 cause was remarriage of one party during the 

 lifetime of the other; in 2, too close consan- 

 guinity ; in 15, impotence ; in 80, adultery ; in 

 650, the unknown residence of one party ; in 

 247, the condemnation of one party to forced 

 labor or exile. The institutions for the educa- 

 tion of the clergy, with the number of their 

 teachers and pupils, were as follows 



Of the pupils, 15,655 received support from 

 state; 26o were learning the languages of 

 the uncivilized tribw. Eleven female schools 



long to the department of the Procurator- 

 General which in 1876 had an aggregate of 

 962 pupils, of whom 294 were supported by 

 the Government. The number of schools con- 



nected with churches and monasteries was 

 6,811, with an aggregate of 197,191 pupils, of 

 whom 170,461 were male and 26,730 female. 

 The number of church libraries was 15,770 ; 

 the number of new libraries established in the 

 course of the year, 235. The church property 

 under the administration of the Procurator- 

 General amounted on January 1, 1877, to 26 - 

 855,858 rubles (1 ruble = 78 cents). 



The Church of Greece lost one of her lead- 

 ing and oldest prelates by the death of the Arch- 

 bishop of Thera, Zacharias Matthas, at the age 

 of about 80 years. He became Archbishop of 

 Thera in 1863, and was at the time of his deatli 

 a member of the Holy Synod of Greece. As 

 a theological author he was well known by 

 his work entitled u A Historic List of the Bish- 

 ops and Patriarchs of the Great Church of 

 Christ at Constantinople, from A. D. 36 to A. D. 

 1834." This work was written by him in 1837, 

 while Archdeacon of Nauplia; it has been 

 translated into Russian, and twice reprinted 

 in St. Petersburg. 



For the Greek Oriental Church of Austria 

 the opening of the University of Czernovitz is 

 an event of great importance. It is the only 

 Austrian university which has a theological 

 faculty of the Greek Oriental Church, and at 

 which therefore the theological students of the 

 Church have an opportunity of receiving a uni- 

 versity education equal to that of the Cath- 

 olic and Protestant theologians of Austria and 

 Germany. The university was established in 

 October, 1875, with the three faculties of the- 

 ology, law and political economy, and philos- 

 ophy ; but the philosophical faculty was not 

 completed until 1877, by the organization of 

 the mathematical section. The theological 

 faculty had in the winter semester of 1878-'79 

 six ordinary professors for the departments of 

 moral theology, dogmatics, practical theology, 

 church history and ecclesiastical law of the 

 Greek Oriental Church, exegesis of the Old 

 Testament, and exegesis of the New Testament, 

 besides one extraordinary professor and one 

 tutor. Connected with the theological faculty is 

 a theological seminary and a special theologi- 

 cal library. The number of theological students 

 has ever since the organization of the faculty 

 been about 40 ; the total number of students is 

 about 220. 



GREENE, WILLIAM B., died at Weston-su- 

 per-Mare, England, May 30, 1878, aged 59 

 years. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., and 

 was the son of the late Nathaniel Greene, for- 

 merly Postmaster of Boston. He was a student 

 at West Point Academy, but did not graduate. 

 He entered the army and served in the Florida 

 war. He was connected with the Brook Farm 

 movement, afterward entered the Baptist min- 

 istry, and for several years was settled at Brook- 

 field, Mass. Though a Democrat, he was a 

 strong Abolitionist ; and on the breaking out 

 of the civil war he returned from Europe, 

 where he had passed several years, and in 1861 

 was commissioned as colonel of the 14th regi- 



