1 1 30
South Carolina 1 1 47
Georgia 1 1 16
Louisiana, Alabama 1 1 18
Mississippi, 1 1 23
Tennessee, Arkansas
Kentucky 1 1 21
Ohio 1 1 58
Illinois 1 1 9
Michigan 1 1 19
Indiana, Missouri, 1 1 44
Iowa, Wisconsin
Florida 1 4
Totals 30 20 1114
The Dioceses of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, are
under the charge of the same Bishop. Indiana and Missouri are under the
charge of the Missionary Bishop for Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Indian
territory North of Lat. 36-1/2 deg.. Alabama is under the charge of the Bishop
of Louisiana. Mississippi and Arkansas are under the charge of the Bishop
of Tennessee.
In the British American Provinces and Islands, there are six dioceses,
containing six Bishops, and 454 other clergymen.
There are numerous local Societies for religious purposes, in every
Diocese.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS.--WEEKLY: The _Churchman_, New York; _Gospel
Messenger_, Utica; _Gospel Messenger and Southern Episcopal Register_,
Charleston, S. C.; _Episcopal Recorder_, Philadelphia; _Southern
Churchman_, Alexandria, D. C.; _Christian Witness_, Boston; _Western
Episcopal Observer_, Cincinnati, Ohio; _Banner of the Cross_,
Philadelphia; _Practical Christian and Church Chronicle_, New Haven,
Ct.--MONTHLY: _Journal of Christian Education_, New York; _Children's
Magazine_, New York; _Spirit of Missions_, New York; _Church Record_,
Flushing, N. Y.
Friends.
The Friends are found in most of the states in the Union, and some in the
British Provinces. They are most numerous in Pennsylvania, a state first
settled by them, under their worthy head and father, in this country,
WILLIAM PENN, in 1682.
In England and Ireland, they number about fifty thousand; and in America,
about two hundred thousand, and are divided into four hundred and fifty
congregations. About half are Orthodox, and the other half Hicksites, or
followers of ELIAS HICKS, who died at Jericho, N. Y. in 1830, aged 76.
Jews.
The number of Jews in the United States is estimated at about four
thousand. They hav
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