9. The General Synod advances claims on the funds of the normal schools in favor of the Protestant schools;
10. It demands the admission of Protestant teachers in the medial Catholic schools; 11. The institution of Protestant catechists in the schools; 12. The incorpo- ration of the Protestant theological faculty into the University of Vienna ; 13. The representation of the Evangelical Church in the Diet and in the Municipal Council. The proceedings in both the General Synods v.rere very harmonious. A union between the Luther- an and the Reformed churches, as it has been consum- mated in several German countries, was not resolved upon, but both synods will continue to meet simulta- neously, and at the same place, and to deliberate on all subjects not strictly denominational in joint session. The nationality question, which produces so much trouble in the politics of Austria, led on some ques- tions to a disagreement between the German majority and the Slavic minority, as the former were unwilling to concede everything the latter demanded, but it pro- duced no open rupture.
II. Ecclesiastical Statistics. — The following table exhibits the membership of the several denominations in every province according to the census of 1857. It appears from this table that the Roman Catholic Church, if we include the United Greeks, has a ma- jority in every province except Transylvania. In Galicia the United Greeks exceed a little in number the Roman Catholics of the Latin rite. The Roman Catholic Church (Latin rite) had, in 1859, 13 arch- bishoprics : Agram, Colocza, Erlau, Gran, Gocritz and Gradisca, Lemberg, Olmutz, Prague, Salzburg, Udine, Venice, Zara. The archbishop of Venice has the title patriarch, and the. archbishop of LMine is merely nominal, not being at the head of an ecclesi- astical province. Tho number of bishops since the separation of Lombardy is 53. There were, in 1851, 4285 parishes and local chaplaincies, and 40,810 priests.
AUTxEAS
553
AUTHORITY
_
Catho
|
Greeks.
Protestnnts.
Unita-
Other Sects.
Israelites.
Lntm.
Greek.
Non-united.
Augsburg
Hclvellc Confession
Austria, below the Enus
Austria, above the Euus
1,350,684
(173,4114 140,132
1,004,919 307,042 40(1,708 502,729 804, S89
4,001,335
1,784,593 3.10,843
2,072,033 42,720 337,800
2,440,97.!
5,138,013 720,893 228,095 448,701 43S,912 23,9GS,0S0
103 1
'"4
278 151
"is
23
4
2,079,421
10,107
341
81
S27,702
1,844
551,994
5,535
59,019
1,030
"32
1 294 S7S
"37 10
5
251
f53,403
77,144
!S
1,100,588
129,737
02H,i '55
587, 2SS
41,1S0
s,(145
14,SJ0
5S
4,977
10,000
75
320
74
34,139
17,1SS
61,S72
2G,9G0
7,; 82
17
SI
795,930
SS5
195,S01
15,S04
10,411
1,495
50
7
135
13
',5
138
41
50,797
34,077
45
4,140
751
S
55
1,553,308
4,425
205,970
4,274
37,359
20
"i ....
1
22 9
1
95
"is
904
31
4S,040
4
1,007
1
'"3 ....
2 1 2S 9 2 488 2,939
"'24
1,001
31
48,040
4
2,114
6,999
4
"0
3*,713
548 86,339
41,529
3,280
44S,973
29,187
31S
0,423
393,105
5,041
14,152
404
9,850
Goriz and Istiia, Trieste
Bohemia
Silesia
Galieia
Military
Totals
3,536,689
2,921,039 | 1,218.831
1,903,7S5
50,870
54. vr.
1,049,S71
The Greek United Church has two archbishoprics, Lemberg and Fogaras (the latter of recent erection), and .8 bishops; the United Armenian Church, 1 arch- bishop at Lemberg: these two churches together had, in 1851, 4285 parishes and local chaplaincies, and 5098 secular priests. The Greek (non-united) Church has a patriarch-archbishop at Carlovitz, 10 bishops, 3201 parishes or local chaplaincies, and 4036 secular priests. The number of convents is constantly increasing. In 1849, 739 convents of monks and 17G of nuns were counted in the Roman Catholic Church, and 44 con- vents of monks, with 271 members, in the Greek (non- united) Church. The Protestants of the Confession of Augsburg (Lutherans) were, until 1859, divided into 10 superintendencies, and the Protestants of the Hel- vetic Confession (Reformed Church) into 8, 4 superin- tendencies of each church being in Hungary. In a ter- ritorial respect the Protestant churches are divided into three groups, which, with regard to church govern- ment, are independent of each other: viz. 1, Hungary, with the adjacent countries ; 2, Transylvania , 3, the other provinces. The two Protestant churches of the last group are under the jurisdiction of the Consistory of Vienna. Together they had, in 1851, 31G2 parishes, which number has since considerably increased. The Unitarians have 1 superintendent at Klausenburg, Transylvania. Theological faculties for education of Roman Catholic priests are connected with each of the nine Austrian universities; that of the University of Innspruck has been wholly transferred to the order of the Jesuits. Besides these theological faculties there are episcopal seminaries, in which theology and phi- losophy are taught, in nearly every diocese. In addi- tion to them, seminaria puerorum (seminaries for boys . who have the priesthood in view) have, since 1848, been ei-ected in many dioceses. The priests of the United Greeks are educated at Lemberg and Fogaras, those of the Non-united Greeks at Czernowicz (Gali- eia) ami Carlovitz (Hungary). For Protestant theo- logians there is a theological faculty at Vienna, winch, however, is not connected with the university. Hun- gary has six schools for the study of theology and philosophy, three for each of the two churches. The Unitarians have a college at Klausenburg. See Coxe, History of the Home of Austria, Lichnowsky, Gesck. des Hauses Hdbsburg (Wien, 8 vols. 183G-1844) , Mai- lath, Gesck. des ostr. Kaiserstaafs (Hamburg', 5 vols. 1834-1850); Hoffmann, Ueher dm <;<>t'isdiemt middle Religion In d< n nsi relchlschen Staafen (Wien, 1783-1785, 6 vols.); Helfert, Die Rechte und Verf turning der Aca- tholiken in Oestreich (Wien, 2d ed. 1827); Wiggefs, Kirchl. Statistlk; Schem, Eccles. Year-book for 1859.