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are entrnsted to a Collegium, and those of the Lnthciau Clmicli to a Con- sistory, l)otli settled at St. Petersburg. Roman (.'atliolics are most numerous ill the former Polish provinces, Lutherans in tJio.se of the Baltic, and Mohammedans in Eastern and Southern Russia, while the Jews are almost entirely settled in the towns and larger villages of the western and south- western provinces.

There are no exact figures as to the numbers of adherents of different creeds — many dissenters being inscribed under the head of Greek Orthodox ; they are only estimated as follows : —

Creed

Total

75,000,000 55,000 8,300,000 2,950,000 3,000,000 2,600,000 26,000

Orthodox Greek Catholics (1 895), without army and navy. United Church and Armenians ......

Roman Catholics ........

Protestants

Jews ...........

Mohammedans .........

Pagans

In Poland the adherents of different religions appeared as follows in 1890 :—

Roman Catholics

6,214,504

Jews ........

1,134,268

Protestants

445,013

Greek Church (without the troox)s)

398,885

Various

478

Unaccounted for, floating population.

63,414

Total, exclusive of military.

8,256,562

The Russian Empire is divided into 64 bishoprics (eparchiya), which according to the last published report, for 1894-95 {OJf. Mess., 1898), were under 3 metropolitans, 17 archbishops, and 45 bishops ; the latter had under them 37 vicars ; all of them are of the monastic clergy. There were, in 1892, 63,191 churches both public and private (of which : cathedrals, 708 ; parish churches, 36,662 ; churches at cemeteries and in private houses, hospitals, &c., 9,742 ; yrdinovyertsxjs, or nonconformists recognised by Church, 248, and 17,195 chapels), with 56,900 priests and deacons, and 43,615 cantors, &c. The monasteries numbered 774, as against 507 in 1892, and had 7,590 monks and 6,700 aspirants, and 252 nunneries with 8,350 nuns antl 22,000 aspirants. The management of Church allhirs is in the hands of 56 "consistoriae."

Other religions had in 1888 the followingnTimbers of churches and clergy :

Churches Priests I Churches Priests

Roman Catholic. . 5,156 3,629 ! Mus.sulman. . 9,254 16,914

Lutherans (excl. Finland) 1,866 605 Jewish. . . 6,319 5,673

Armenian. . . 1,275 2,025 Karaims ... 35 35