Religious Statistics. NUMBERS IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CREED. THE following estimates, by M. Fournier de Flaix, are the latest that have been made by a competent authority. (See Quarterly of the American Statistical Association for March, 1892.) The distinction between followers and actual communicants should be observed. A very large number-more than 18,000,000-of Hindoos, Mohammedans, Buddhists, and others in the East also speak and read English. The estimates in the last table are from Whitaker's (London) Almanack, 1895. The Encyclopedia Britannica," last edition, makes a rough estimate of numbers of Protestants in the world speaking all civilized languages, and places the Lutherans at the head, with over 42,000,000 members (mostly in Germany and Scandinavia), and the Anglican Church second, with about 20,000,000 members. * United States census of 1890. The American Jewish Year Book for 1900 estimated the number of Jews in the United States at 1,058, 135 and in the world at 11, 723,947 in 1900. Religious Denominations in the United States. Statistics of Ministers, Churches, and Communicants or Members, compiled by The Independent and published in 1901. 580 25,816 The aggregate of about 28,000,000 represents actual church membership, and includes all Catholics, but not all persons affiliated by family ti to Protestant bodies. The larger of the Protestant bodies may claim twice the number of their communicants as nominal adherents.-EDITOR OF THE ALMANAC. A census of religious bodies was taken by the United States Census Office in 1900, but has not yet been published. It is expected to appear in 1902. Sunday-School Statistics of All Countries. THE following statistics of Sunday-schools were reported at the World's Third Sunday-School Convention, held in London July 11 to 16, 1898, and are the latest extant: 225,890 UNIVERSALISTS... 735 764 48,426 11,344 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA....... 500 200 .... 5,000 INDEPENDENT CONGREGATIONS... Seceding Mormons. 54 156 14,126 The total number of teachers and scholars in the world, according to this report, was 24,919,313. The table does not include the schools of the Roman Catholic and Non-Evangelical Protestant churches. The number of scholars in Roman Catholic Sunday-schools in the United States is estimated at 900,000 by clerics. The next World's Sunday-School Convention will be held in 1903. Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-John R. Mott, Chairman; J. Ross Stevenson, Vice-Chairman; Dr. Pauline Root, Dr. W. Harley Smith, Hans P. Andersen, Bertha Condé. Fennell P. Turner, General Secretary, Bancroft Building, No. 3 West Twenty-ninth Street, New York City; James E. Knotts, Assistant Secretary; Harlan P. Beach, Educational Secretary. Name. Agliardi, A.... College of Cardinals. CARDINAL BISHOPS. Office or Dignity. Nation. Age. Cr't'd. Name. Office or Dignity. Nation. Age. Cr't'd. ..Bp. Albano... .Italian.....70....1896 Oreglia, D. S. S..... Dean Sac. Coll... ......Italian.....74....1878 Mocenni, Mario. .Bp. Sabina. .Italian.....79....1893 Vannutelli, S.. .Bp. Frascati.........Italian.....68....1887 Parocchi, L. M....... Vice-Chancellor.....Italian.....69....1877 CARDINAL PRIESTS. .Italian....60....1901 | Logue, Michael......Abp. Armagh.......Irish...... 62....1893 Cassajares, A. M.....Abp. Valladolid.....Spanish....68 ...1895 ..Italian.....61....1899 Portanova, Gennaro..Abp.ReggioCalabria Italian.....57....1899 Prisco, G. ..Abp. Naples.. Puzyna, K. G.... .Bp. Krakow. Vicar-General. Rampolla, M.. Celesia, P. G. M.....Abp. Palermo..... Italian.....91.... 1884 .Secretary of State....Italian.....59....1887 ..Italian.....66....1896 ..Austrian..60....1901 ..Italian.....59....1899 ..Italian.....63....1901 ..French.....88....1889 .Abp. Ravenna, Abp. Paris..... Abp. Turin...... ..Italian.....52....1899 .Abp. Toledo... .Spanish....64....1894 ..Patriarch Venice.....Italian.....67....1893 .Abp. Lat. Balisca...Italian.....68....1895 ..Bp. Grosswardein... Hungarian.78....1893 ..Abp. Prague........Bohemian.39....1901 .Abp. Bologna.......Italian.....51....1894 ...Abp. Liberia... ....Italian.....66....1889 Vaszary, Claudius....Abp. Gran.......... Hungarian.70....1893 Lecot, Victor L. ....Abp. Bordeaux......French.....71....1893 Vaughan, Herbert.... Abp. Westminster...English....70....1893 Ledochowski, M..... Pref. Propaganda....Polish.....80....1875 Zabarella, A. S.. Diocese. Bishops. BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. Cons. Diocese. Cons. 1883 1869 1893 1900 New York-Western: William D. Walker, Buffalo....... 1899 1898 1889 1889 Southern Boyd Vincent, Coadjutor, Cincinnati... Oklahoma and Indian Ter.-F. K. Brooke (miss.), Guthrie. 1893 Oregon-Benjamin Wistar Morris (missionary), Portland... 1868 Pennsylvania-Ozi William Whitaker, Philadelphia... 1869 Pittsburgh: Cortlandt Whitehead. 66 1882 Central: Ethelbert Talbot, South Bethlehem. 1887 Rhode Island-Thomas March Clark, Providence..... 1854 W. N. MeVickar, Coadjutor, Providence... 1897 1893 1893 1892 1874 Western: James S. Johnston (miss ), San Antonio.. 1888 1896 1873 66 Dallas: Alex. C. Garrett... 66 1878 1901 1899 1895 Robert A.Gibson, Coadjutor, Richmond...... 1888 1894 1868 1897 1883 1878 1899 1891 1889 .... "Reginald H.Weller, Jr.,Coadjutor. 1900 Washington-Olympia: Fred.W. Keator, elect (miss.).... Spokane: Lemuel H. Wells (missionary).... 1892 Wyoming-Laramie: Anson R.Graves (miss.), Kearney, Neb. 1890 Africa Cape Palmas: S.D. Ferguson (miss.), Monrovia, Lib. 1885 China-Shanghai: Frederick R. Graves (missionary).. Hankow: J. A. Ingle, elect (missionary). Japan-Tokio: John McKin (missionary). 66 Kyoto: S. C. Partridge (missionary). Hawaiian Islands-Honolulu: A. Miller (until April 1, 1867 Philippine Islands-Charles H. Brent, elect (missionary). 1893 1893 1900 1880 1885 1877 44 A. L. Williams, Coadjutor, Omaha. New Hampshire-William Woodruff Niles, Concord. New Jersey-John Scarborough, Trenton.. 1899 1870 S. I. J. Schereschewsky, late Bishop of Shanghai, China. 1877 1875 Thomas Augustus Jaggar, late Bishop of Southern Ohio. Retired, Cincinnati. 1875 1883 The next quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held May 4, 1904, the place to be determined by the book committee. The next general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will be held at Dallas, Tex., May 7, 1902. |