54,397
Church population at 72 percent. 17,995,159
Nonconformist population (including Roman Catholics) 6,859,238

With regard to Educational Matters, we find that

Scholars.

In Day Schools connected with the Church, there are 2,092,846
Ditto with Wesleyans 173,804
Ditto Roman Catholics 223,423
In British and Undenominational Schools 324,144
School Board Schools 1,197,927

We also find that on Hospital Sunday, 1881, the following
contributions were made:

Church of England L174,662
Methodists (the various sects together) L 9,012

For Missionary purposes the sums of money collected in 1881
were:

Church of England L460,395
Nonconformist Societies in England L313,177

_Statistics of the Anglican Communion_ _Bishops_. _Clergy_.

England and Wales (including 4 Suffragan,
and 4 Assistant, Bishops) 41 23,000
Ireland 12 1,700
Scotland 7 250
British Colonies, India, &c. 75 3,100
United States 69 3,600
Retired Bishops 22
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Total (in round numbers) 226 30,000

CHURCH, THE GREEK. This ancient branch of the Catholic Church is
the Church of the East. The great schism between the Eastern and
Western Churches took place in the eleventh century, though for
centuries before a separation had been imminent. One of the chief
causes of the separation of the Eastern from the Western Church
was that the latter holds the doctrine that the Holy Ghost proceeds
from the Son (_filioqe_) as well as from the Father, eternally; and
inserted the words "filioque" (and from the Son) in the Nicene
Creed. This the Eastern Church rejects; and also she errs in other
details both of faith and practice. Her orders are without doubt
Apostolical, and efforts have been made for her union with the
Anglican Church, but the "filioque" clause in