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GERMANY BATARIA.

Church and Education.

Rather more than seven-tenths of the population of Bavaria are Roman Catholics. The population varied very little, as regards the proportion between Roman Catholics and Protestants, during the last quarter of a century or more; but the number of Jews diminished considerably, and there was a slight decrease in the proportion of Anabaptists, and members of the Greek Church. The religious division of the population in the eight provinces of the kingdom was as follows at the last census, taken December 3, 1867 : —

Provinces

Roman Catholics

Protestants

Other Sects

Jews

Upper Bavaria Lower Bavaria Palatinate (Eheinpfalz) Upper Palatinate. Upper Franconia. Middle Franconia Lower Franconia. Suabia ....

Total.

79S,874 591,205 273,982 451,350 226,742 127,474 470,081 501,321

26,185

3.137

336,119

38,723 304,158 441,290 100.090

79,011

456 133

2,923 177 31 402 401 316

2,154

36

13,042

1.045

4,129 10,522 14,400

4,512

3,441,029

1,328,713

4,839

49,840

According to a table annexed to the official Returns of the Census of Dec. 3, 1867, there were in 1840, to every 1,000 inhabitants,

Eoman Catholics ....... 710-79

Protestants 274-52

Jews 13-58

Anabaptists, and members of the Greek Church. . I'll

while in 1867 the numbers were —

Eoman Catholics 712-94

Protestants 275 - 73

Jews 10-33

Anabaptists, and members of the Greek Church. . 1

As regards ecclesiastical administration, the kingdom is divided into 2 Roman Catholic archbishoprics, those of Munich and Bamberg ; 6 bishoprics; 171 deaneries; and 2,756 parishes. The Protestant Church is under a General Consistory — ' Ober-Consistorium ' — and four provincial consistories. Of the three universities of the kingdom, two, at Munich and Wiirzburg, are Roman Catholic, and one, at Erlangen, Protestant. Among the Roman Catholics there is one clergy- man to 464 souls ; among the Protestants, one to 1,013. The Roman Catholic Church is richly endowed, possessing, according to semi- official statements, property amounting to above 100 millions of florins, or 8,500,000/. A large proportion of this wealth consists of landed estates, which are annually increasing in value. The State,