INTRODUCTION. 
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privileges. So also were the estates belonging 
to Holum sold in the year 1801 ; the money se¬ 
cured in the same funds; and the two dioceses 
incorporated into one. Among the Danish clergy 
there is no metropolitan or archbishop, but each 
bishop has the full power over his own stiftsampt, 
without being subject to any other ecclesiastical 
jurisdiction, though he is amenable to the civil 
powers. In like manner the Bishop of Iceland 
is independent of all other bishops. 
The next officer in the church is the Stift- 
provst of all Iceland, which is somewhat analo¬ 
gous to a dean in England. The present Stift- 
provst’s name is Magnusen. 
The Provsts are inferior officers of the diocese, 
who have the care and superintendance of eccle¬ 
siastical affairs in their own provstie; for the 
dioscese is divided into nineteen such provsties, 
and about one hundred and eighty-four church- 
livings. 
The priests receive their income from the 
lands that are annexed to each church and from 
tythes ; besides which there are three hundred 
and eighteen rix-dollars and seventy-two skillings 
allowed per annum for the amendment of such 
livings as are very small, and three hundred more 
