10
Caraga 6,012 23,480 5
Nueva-Guipuzcoa 1,696 1/2 7,330 2
Marianas -- 8,435 2

Total 82,762 430,360 80

_In 1878, by the prior provincial, father Fray Aquilino Bon de San
Sebastian_

Regular
Provinces Tributes Souls ministers

Archbishop of Manila

Manila 5,083 19,029 3
District of Morong 3,553 1/2 11,982 2
Cavite 18,525 1/2 65,558 9
Laguna 957 1/2 2,734 1
Batangas 13,331 54,142 4
Pampanga and Tarlac 3,644 15,004 4
Bataan 1,955 6,749 3
Zambales 23,058 1/2 92,975 19
Mindoro 7,806 1/2 28,592 6

Bishopric of Jaro

Romblon 7,136 32,661 7
Island of Negros 43,870 178,937 34
Calamianes 5,186 1/2 21,861 7

Bishopric of Cebu

Cebu 14,214 1/2 67,808 10
Bohol 52,600 1/2 255,706 35
Misamis 14,925 62,746 10
Surigao 3,744 14,463 3
Bislig 1,783 1/2 7,571 1
Marianas -- 8,125 6

Total 221,375 946,643 164

[A note at the end of the volume states that the Recollects of the
province of San Nicolas of the Philippine Islands numbered, in 1879,
1,004 deceased friars who had labored there.]

PRESENT CONDITION OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN FILIPINAS

[The following account is obtained from _Archipielago filipino_
(prepared by the Jesuit fathers at Manila; Washington, 1900), ii,
pp. 258-267.]

The progressive increase of Catholics in Filipinas until 1898

In order to understand the present condition of the Catholic
religion in Filipinas (we refer to the year 1896, before the Tagal
insurrection), it will be advisable to place before the eyes of the
reader the growth of the Christian population a