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side of the Black Sea, which belonged to the inhabi- coincidence occurred in 1911 and upon examination

tants of ApoUonia, now called Siz^bolou. From of the thorn by civil and church authorities the

the reign of Trojan it was known as Ulpia and the facts were proven to be true to tradition. In 1920

coinage of the imperial epoch, from Domitian to the diocese counted 101,000 Catholics, 15 parishes,

Gordian III, is stamped with a head. With the 200 secular and 5 regular priests, 15 semmarians,

invasion of the Slavs and Bulgars in the sixth and 53 churches or chapels, 6 brothers and 60 sisters, following centuries the city was the scene of re- Amrofa TV/vr»<». ^ /a^,«-.«.„-^,«.« r n -c*

peated sieges and battle and 17 Jime, 762, the t-SSk? '.o^^f ?^ (Andbgavenbis; cf C. E

Byzantines won an important victory over the ?";^^ V« ''^'^^^r^!?^ '^T'*^°'^°S °'^ Mame^t-

Bulgars, but they were completely defeated in 766; I-o^^e, m France, and is suffragan of Tours. The

Anciial'os had Wfifered so^seve?ely during thes4 &^!?L^?SS*'!Sh ?n •^^fJ^'^^^^ ^T'*"' \' ** conflicts that the Empress Irene rebuilt tL city Z^^[^^2'i^\r^'^'^«l?^' """ """"t i^aP^ in 784. On 20 August, 917, the Byzantines under- l^^^l^t.^^^'L^PK^ oIm '''^ u^^^.E^^'^* \^V Sf"* went a bloody defeat and at th^ time the city fPf-^^ul^^^P ??ooiSy^o^.f 'r^^*' ?^ ^^^ ^' was called Achelos, which was the popular fori ^^^«» there are 502,200 Catholicain the diocese, of the name, and by modern historians Acheloiis. 7^^^ ^^ ,^J^ ^"^ 9^ parishes, 377 succurwl par- In 1423 the city, which had till then belonged to Jf*'^.^^^ 1^9 vicanates with salaries formerly paid the Greeks, was conquered by the Turks and re- ^^ ^^^^^^t' > l^^^^^^ constituted lay society has mained in their possd^on until 1885, when it was bought back the lower seminary, which was taken annexed to the province of Rum^lia in the prin- {j.^^ .^^fj""^^^ ^ ^ ^9^^^^ the Law of Separa- cipality of Bulgaria. The city, populated principally *'°Jt*^- T^' The municipality of Angers, with the by Greeks, wm almost entirety wiped out diring authonzation of the Government, showed a great the summer of 1906 by an intemd war between ?P>"* ^^ ^^}'^^ ^^^ liberality m the negotiations two factions J^"* completed, and the lower seminary of Beau-

The exact date of the introduction of Christianity F^^ ^^ ^^® ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ been bought into this city is not known, but it seems to have "**^*^'

been very early; according to the legend of St. Anglicanism (cf. C. E., I-498d).— In 1914 a Welsh Sebastian there were Christians there as early as Church Act was passed by Parliament, disestab- the end of the first century. In any case it is cer- lishing the Church of England in Wales. Owing tain that an organized Church did exist here in the to the war this act was not put into effect untu last half of the second century, whose bishop, Sotas, 1919, when another act completed the disestablish- wished to exorcise Priscilla, the companion of ment of the Church of Wales and Monmouthshire Montanus. Anchialos appears as an archdiocese as from 31 March, 1920. Wales was made a sepa- in the province of Rhodope, directly dependent rate archbishopric. Property belonging to the on Constantinople; it remained so until the six- Anglican Church in Wales, and a sum of £1,000,000 teenth century. At the present time (1922) the have been assigned to a temporary body, "Welsh Greek metropolitan of Anchialos, situated in Bui- Commissioners,^' for distribution to a body repre- garia, is directly subject to the Greek Patriarchate senting the Welsh Church, and to certain other of Constantinople in Turkey. For the Roman Rite authonties, including the University of Wales. This Anchialos is a titular see. The list of bishops of disestablidiment was bitterly opposed by many this see from Sotas, in 170, is quite regular. Anglicans, who fear that it forebodes the disesteb-

Ancona and TTmana, Arc?hdiocesb op (Anconi- ^ishment of the Church in England. In Canada TANA ET Humana; cf. C. E., I-463d), in the province }^^ propo^l (1918) to change the name of the of Ancona, Italy. In 1904, upon the occasion of .-Vburch of England m Canada" to some broader the episcopal jubilee of Cardinal Manara, Pius X *i*i® ?^ °ot as yet been adopted, raised this see to the dignity of an archdiocese ^^^,}^ diflScult to estimate the total number of without suffragans; the bishops of this see are ipso Anglicans m the w;orld, since the returns for facto given the title of count. The present bishop, England and the United States (Protestant Epis- Rt. Rev. John Baptist Ricci, b. at Montenuovo, f^pal Chiych) list commumcants and not the 1895, and transferred to lesi 9 June, 1902, and pro- ^^^^ ^i°^i*Vi??^X' • .^}}^ ^^? ^J- "damages moted to this see 15 July, 1906, to succeed Cardinal ^^ England (59.7% la 191^ were Anglican) there Manara. By 1920 statistics there are 90,964 Catho- ^Jf,. "^^T-ll .u^°a"* ,?0»^?^ ^t least loosely lies in this diocese, 37 parishes, 82 secular and 28 S?^*^K a.^ ^^^ Anglican Church m that countpr. regular priests, 30 seminarians, 85 churches or ^^^ ^'^^'^^ .^°i?lSi*2IS?^** *°.*^® Umted States chapels, 10 brothers and 115 sisters. °^ay represent 3,000,000 constituents; there are

AriiirAfa -cww «« ^nf n T? T_47nK^ TU« ^earlv 5,000,000 constituents m the rest of the

Andreis, Jin^ db (cf. C E I-470b).~The ^Q^d, and as many of the statistics are no later decree of the introduction of the cai^ of his ^^an ioil it is fair to estimate the entire Anglican beatification received the papal approbation 2o constituency in the world in 1922 as about 30,000,- Juiy, i»i». 000 The following figures are for total membership

Andrla, Diocese op (Andriensis; cf. C. E., (constituents) except for England, Scotland, and I-475c), in the province of Bari, Italy, is suffragan the United States, for which only communicants are of Trani. By a decree of 9 June, 1916, the Congre- listed. British statistics are taken from the States-

Sation of the Consistory accorded the title of cathe- man's Year-Book, 1921; in some cases they show Iral to the basilica of St. Savinus at Canossa. a decrease from the earlier figures of the Cathouc Bishop Staiti di Braceleone, who was appointed to Encyclopedia. England, 2,360,000 ; Scotland, 66,000; this see in 1899, died 14 December, 1916, and was United States, 1,104,000; Ireland, 576,000; Canada succeeded by the present incumbent, Rt. Rev. and Newfoundland. 1,121,000; Australia, 1.731,000; Eugenio Tod, b. at Busto Arsizio, 1863, appointed New Zealand, 459,000; South Africa, 642,000; India, bishop of Squillace 5 April, 1911, and transferred 493,000.

to Andria 22 March, 1917. In this diocese there is The doctrinal tendency of Anglicanism in recent preserved a thorn of the crown of Our Lord, the tip years is epitomized in the Kikuyu incident. In of which bears brown stains, the inhabitants holding June, 1913, a conference of Protestant missions with the tradition that whenever Good Friday falls on the Chureh Missionary Society (Low Church 25 March these stains become actual blood. This Anglican) was held at Kiku3ru, British East Africa,