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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



David's, Llandaff, Norwich, Bangor, Worces- 

 ter, Gloucester and Bristol, Ely, Rochester, 

 Lichfield, Hereford, Peterborough, Lincoln, 

 Salisbury, Bath and Wells, Exeter, Truro (es- 

 tablished in 1877), Chichester, St. Albans (es- 

 tablished in 1877), and St. Asaph. The prov- 

 ince of York comprises the Archbishop of York 

 and the Bishops of Durham, Ripon, Chester, 

 Carlisle, Manchester, and Sodor and Man. The 

 Church of Ireland has the two provinces of 

 Armagh and Dublin, each containing one arch- 

 bishop and five bishops. The Episcopal Church 

 of Scotland has seven bishops, the Bishop of 

 Moray, Ross, and Caithness being the " Pri- 

 mus." In the British colonies and in mission- 

 ary territories the Church of England had in 

 1879 also the following dioceses: 1. In Europe 

 Gibraltar ; 2. In India Calcutta, Lahore, 

 Rangoon, Madras, Bombay, Labuan, and Co- 

 lombo, the Bishop of Calcutta bearing the title 

 of Metropolitan in India and Ceylon ; 3. In the 

 West Indies Kingston (Jamaica), Barbadoes, 

 Guiana, Antigua, Nassau, and Trinidad ; 4. In 

 China Victoria and North China ; 5. In Af- 

 rica Capetown, Graham's Town, Maritzburg, 

 Sierra Leone, St. Helena, St. John's (late Inde- 

 pendent Caffraria), Zoolooland, Bloemfontein 

 (Orange Free State), Pretoria, Mauritius, Mad- 

 agascar, Central Africa, and Niger (mission), 

 the Bishop of Capetown having the title of 

 Metropolitan ; 6. In Australasia Sydney, Mel- 

 bourne, Ballarat, Adelaide, Newcastle, Bath- 

 urst, North Queensland (established in 1878), 

 Grafton and Armidale, Perth, Brisbane, Goul- 

 burn, Tasmania, Christ Church (New Zealand), 

 Auckland, Nelson, Wellington, Waiapu, and 

 Dunedin (Otago), the Bishop of Sydney hav- 

 ing the title of Metropolitan of Australia, 

 and the Bishop of Christ Church the title ot 

 Primus of New Zealand ; 7. In North America 

 Toronto, Newfoundland, Rupert's Land, Sas- 

 katchevan, Athabasca, Moosonee, Montreal, 

 Fredericton, Nova Scotia (the first colonial 

 see, founded in 1787), Huron, Columbia, Que- 

 bec, Ontario, Algoma, and Niagara ; 8. Others 

 Falkland Islands, Honolulu, Melanesia, and 

 Jerusalem. 



The population connected with the Anglican 

 Churches of the British Isles is estimated as 

 follows by E. G. Ravenstein : 



Eng-land and Wales 17,781,000 



Scotland 78,000 



Ireland 668,000 



Total British Isles 18,522,000 



In each of the Australian colonies the An- 

 glican Church is the leading religious denom- 

 ination. In 1877 the population connected 

 with it in the several colonies was officially 

 reported or estimated as follows: 



> New South "Wales 282,000 



Victoria 258,000 



South Australia 51,000 



Western Australia 15,000 



Queensland 44.000 



Tasmania 63,000 



New Zealand 107,000 



Total 760,OCO 



In British North America, the Anglican 

 Church had according to the census of 1871 a 

 population of 494,049 in the provinces of On- 

 tario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 

 wick, 7,220 in Prince Edward Island, and 55,- 

 184 in Newfoundland. Including tlie districts 

 of British Columbia, Manitoba, and Northwest 

 Territories, the aggregate population connect- 

 ed with the Church of England amounted in 

 1871 to about 580,000. 



The Convocation of Canterbury met Febru- 

 ary 18th. A petition was presented in the Tip- 

 per House praying the House to take into con- 

 sideration the repeated applications of the Pa- 

 triarch, Bishops, and clergy of the descendants 

 and representatives of the Church of Persia 

 and the farther East, whose Catholicos had 

 been recognized at the Council of Nice as rank- 

 ing next after the three great Patriarchs of the 

 Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury gave 

 some information as to the result of inquiries 

 which had been made into the condition of 

 these people, who constitute the community 

 commonly called the Nestoriacs. The petition 

 was referred to a committee, who were in- 

 structed to consider it and report upon it at 

 the next group of sessions of the Convocation. 

 A committee was appointed to inquire into the 

 sale of next presentations and advowsons. A 

 discussion took place on the character and sta- 

 tus of the Reformed Episcopal Church, in the 

 course of which the Archbishop stated that he 

 had received a communication from a person 

 representing himself to be one of the ministers 

 of that body, asking whether he might officiate 

 in any of the churches of his lordship's or any 

 other diocese. To this the Archbishop had re- 

 plied that as a clergyman of the Reformed 

 Episcopal Church the inquirer was not entitled 

 to officiate in any church of the dioceses of the 

 province : and if he did, the law had provided 

 for the taking of legal proceedings against him 

 for the penalties prescribed in the Act of Par- 

 liament. It appeared, from statements made 

 during the discussion, that the Colonial Church 

 Act requires the consent of the bishop to the 

 performance of any service by a person other 

 than a clergyman ordained by a bishop of the 

 Church of England ; and that, when an unquali- 

 fied person is allowed to officiate in the parish 

 church, the incumbent is liable to severe pen- 

 alties. In the Lower House, a petition was 

 presented from the English Church Union, 

 asking that steps be taken to protect the 

 churches from the desecrations to which they 

 are liable by the celebration therein of the 

 (so-called) marriages of divorced persons whose 

 real husbands or wives are still living. A gra- 

 vamen was presented which embodied the rep- 

 resentations of fellows and other members of 

 the University of Cambridge against the con- 

 tinued use of the so-called damnatory clauses 

 of the Athanasian Creed, and asking for their 

 removal from the Liturgy. It was taken to 

 the Upper House. A report was presented 

 from the Committee on the Sale of Advowsons 



