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Rh Church and Education.

The State religion of Austria is the Roman Catholic, but there is complete toleration for all dissenters from it, of whatever form of belief. According to the returns of the last census, rather more than 66 per cent, of the inhabitants of the Empire are Roman Catholics, while of the remainder 11 per cent, are Greek Catholics; 10 per cent. Evangelical Protestants, and 9 per cent. Byzantine Greeks. The following table shows the numbers, in thousands, of the various religious denominations, and the relative per-centage of each, in Cisleithan and Transleithan Austria, as well as in the whole Empire.

Roman Catholics. . Greek Catholics. . Evangl. Protestants. Byzantine Greeks

Unitarians .... Catholic Armenians. Other Sects. ..

Total. ..

Cisleithan Austria

Transleithan Austria

Whole Empire

Numbers ' _„,.„(.

in COO P ercent -

Numbers in 000

per cent.

Numbers in 000

percent.

15,766

2,303

351

490

683

4 6

80.4

11.7

1.7

2-5

3-5

0-2

7,120

1,498

3,088

2,630

428

54

9

2

48-0

10-1

20-8

17-7

2.9

0.3

0.1

23.265

3,861

3,495

3,166

1,121

55

13

8

66-4

11-0

10-0

9-0

32

0-2

o-i o-i

19,603

100

14,830

100

34,984

100

The ecclesiastical hierarchy of Austria comprises 11 Roman Catholic archbishops—of Vienna, Salzburg, Görz, Prag, Olmütz, Lemberg, Zara, Gran, Erlau, Kalocsa, and Agram; 2 Greek Catholic archbishops—at Lemberg and Blasendorf; 1 Greek Byzantine archbishop, and 1 Catholic Armenian archbishop. The Roman Catholic Church has further 57 bishops, with chapters and consistories, and 43 abbots of ancient endowed monasteries, in Austria, Styria, Illyria, Bohemia, and Moravia. Hungary has 22 abbots with endowments, 124 titular abbots, 41 endowed, 29 titular prebendaries, and 3 college foundations. Transylvania has 3 titular abbots, and upwards of 150 monasteries and convents; and Galicia 70 monasteries. The Greek United Church has 1 archbishop and 1 bishop in Galicia, and 5 bishops in Hungary. The Armenian Catholic Church has an archbishop at Lemberg. The Archbishop of Carlowitz is head of the Greek Church, with 10 bishops and 60