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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



foreign lands there arc 5 missionary districts, 

 \iz., Cape Palmas and ports adjacent, Hangkow, 

 Shanghai, Kioto, and Tokio; and 4 churches 

 under a concordat with the House of Bishops, viz., 

 the churches in Brazil, Haiti, Mexico, and Conti- 

 nental Europe. The number of clergy is 5,226; 

 parishes and missions, 6,544; priests ordained, 

 136; church edifices, 5,830 ; baptisms, 60,261; con- 

 firmations, 45,809; communicants, 734,146; Sun- 

 day-school teachers, 45,018; Sunday-school schol- 

 ars, 415,859; parish-school teachers, 359; parish- 

 school scholars, 7,631 ; industrial-school teachers, 

 388; industrial-school scholars, 4,106; contribu- 

 tions, $15,596,267. 



American Episcopate. The Right Rev. Fran- 

 < -is McXeese Whittle, D. D., LL. D., died on June 

 18, 1902, and the Right Rev. Robert Atkinson Gib- 

 son, D. 1)., succeeded him as sixth Bishop of the 

 Diocese of Virginia. 



By the action of the convention of the diocese 

 and with the consent of the General Convention, 

 the name of the diocese of Indiana was changed 

 to the diocese of Indianapolis. 



An order of the General Convention of 1901 di- 

 rected that the term " missionary district " should 

 hereafter be used in the canons of the Church in- 

 stead of the term " missionary jurisdiction." 



On April 1, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Hono- 

 lulu, the Right Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D., formally 

 surrendered his jurisdiction over the former dio- 

 cese of Honolulu to the Right Rev. William Ford 

 Nichols, Bishop of California, who accepted the 

 former diocese as a missionary district of the 

 American Church. At the meeting of the House of 

 Bishops, April 16 and 17, the Rev. Henry Bond 

 Restarick, rector of St. Paul's, San Diego, Cal., 

 was elected missionary bishop. 



In response to a request from the synod of the 

 Mexican Episcopal Church, dated Dec. 18, 1900, 

 asking for the consecration of three bishops for 

 this Church, the House of Bishops, in their April 

 meeting, recommended the presiding bishop to 

 take order for the consecration of three bishops 

 for the Mexican Church, subject to the consent of 

 the majority of the bishops of the Church. The 

 names recommended were the Rev. Henry For- 

 rester, as episcopal vicar and resident representa- 

 tive of the Board of Missions; the Rev. Fausto 

 Orihuela; and the Rev. Jos6 a Carri6n. In due 

 course it was reported that a constitutional ma- 

 jority of the members of the House of Bishops had 

 given their consent, but somewhat later several 

 of the bishops signified their desire to withdraw 

 their consent. Upon reporting this action by let- 

 ter to all the bishops a majority of them declared 

 in answer that it was not advisable to proceed 

 without further consideration. At the meeting 

 of the House of Bishops in October a commission 

 of the Mexican Church was appointed, consisting 

 of the Bishops of Kentucky, West Virginia, New 

 Mexico and Arizona, California, and Los An- 

 geles, whose duty it should be to make inquiry as 

 to the character and learning of persons presented 

 for consecration, and when ready to request the 

 presiding bishop to call a meeting of the House 

 of Bishops to consider and decide the question 

 of consecrating one or more bishops for the Mexi- 

 can Church. 



The House of Bishops in April changed the title 

 of the missionary district of Porto Rico and 

 Vieques to the missionary district of Porto 

 Rico. The Rev. William Cabell Brown, D. D., 

 declined to accept his election as first bishop of 

 this district, and the Rev. James Heartt Van 

 Buren, rector of St. Johi> the Baptist's, San Juan, 

 Porto Rico, was elected in his stead. The Bishop 

 of Porto Rico has charge of the district of Cuba 



also, it having been transferred to him from the 

 charge of the Bishop of Pennsylvania. 



The new missionary district of Salina (western 

 Kansas) was on its formation placed tinder the 

 episcopal superintendence of the Bishop of Kansas. 

 The Rev. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas, rector of 

 the Church of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., declined the election of first bishop of this 

 district, and the Ven. Shelden Munson Griswold, 

 D. D., rector of Christ's Church,. Hudson, N. Y., 

 and Archdeacon of Albany, was elected in his 

 stead. The following have been consecrated 

 bishops since Dec. 4, 1902: The Rev. Cameron 

 Mann, D. D., Missionary Bishop of North Dakota; 

 the Rev. Charles Henry Brent, Missionary Bishop 

 of the Philippine Islands; the Rev. Frederick Wil- 

 liam Keator, Missionary Bishop of Olympia ; Rev. 

 Frederick Burgess, D. D., Bishop of Long Island, in 

 succession to the Right Rev. Abram N. Littlejohn, 

 deceased; the Rev. James Addison Ingle, Mis- 

 sionary Bishop of Hankow; the Rev. Alexander 

 Hamilton Vinton, D. D., Bishop of Western Massa- 

 chusetts; the Rev. Charles Sanford Olmstead, 

 Bishop of Colorado; the Rev. Alexander Mackay- 

 Smith, Bishop-Coadjutor of Pennsylvania; the 

 Rev. Charles Tyler Olmstead, D. D., Bishop-Coad- 

 jutor of Central New York. 



On Jan. 8, the Rev. Charles Sanford Olmstead 

 was elected Bishop-Coadjutor of Colorado, and the 

 Rev. Charles Minnegerode Beckwith, D. D., Bishop 

 of Alabama. 



Missions. The entire receipts of the Domestic 

 and Foreign Missionary Society for the fiscal year 

 ended Aug. 31 were $*1,099,018.77. This sum in- 

 cludes the large receipts for " specials " and those 

 for publications and miscellaneous purposes 

 which may not be used by the society in meeting 

 its appropriations. The total amount at the dis- 

 cretion of the board for the work for which it has 

 made itself responsible is $623,170.88, of which 

 $570,948.73 came from contributions, and $52,- 

 222.15 from legacies received during the year, 

 such legacies having been designated by the testa- 

 tors either for foreign or domestic missions or for 

 the use of the society. In addition, the board 

 used during the past year $1,080 from a legacy 

 that it had previously received. After all these 

 sums were applied there was a deficit of $119,- 

 143.95 in meeting the appropriations. The num- 

 ber of parishes and missions which contributed 

 to the work of the society by or through any 

 agency the previous year was 4,075. For the 

 year ended Aug. 31, 4,866 parishes contributed by 

 parish offerings as such $329,687; through the 

 Sunday-schools, $108,119.40; and through the 

 Woman's Auxiliary, $70,967.11. The gain in the 

 total number of parishes contributing was T'.M : 

 in the amount of the parish offerings, $93,693.28; 

 in the offerings of the Sunday-school, $7,771.56; of 

 the Woman's Auxiliary, $7,307.68. 



Legacies were received amounting to $13,918.36. 

 which, according to the terms of the wills, wen 

 permanently invested, and $28,715 was received 

 from legacies and paid out as "specials." Th< 

 increase in contributions as compared with the- 

 previous year was $114,084.41; but there was a. 

 decrease in the amount received from legacies sub 

 ject to the discretion of the board of $17,471.03. 

 The deficiency of $119,143.95 was temporarily met 

 by drawing upon the reserve deposit of $109,120.81 

 (set aside by the Board of Managers to meet pay- 

 ments falling due in the early months of the year, 

 when contributions are few and to be replaced a* 

 soon as possible), and the $12,189.46 of the be- 

 quest of Rev. Cleveland Keith, applicable only to 

 the China mission. 



A system of apportionment among the parishes 



