St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-09
The Census Office Issues an
Interesting and Valuable
Bulletin.
Figures on the Congrega-
tions, Church Edifiees
and Values.
st. Paul Archdiocese Is Sixth
in Number Of Commune
cantS.
Six Million and a Quarter Of
Members in 10,221 Con-
gregations.

w ASHINGTON. Aug. S.-Ine cenSu
office to-day issued a bulletin devoted to
statistics of churches representing all
the Catholic bodies which have congre-
cations in the United States. There
are seven of these communions, en-
bracing the Roman Catholic, the Greek
Catholic (unionateS) III union with the
Holy Sea; the Russian Orthodox, the
Greek orthodox, the Armenian, the old
Catholic and the Reforme d Catholic
church. The Roman Catholic church
has congregations in every state and
territory in the Union, including Alaska
and the District of Columbia. The
United Greek Catholics are represented
IN Pennsylvania, Illinois. New Jersey
and Minnesota; the Russian orthodox
Greek church in California and Alaska;
the orthodox church of Greece III Louis
lana; the Armenian in Massachusetts.
New York and Rhode Island; the old
Catholics in Wisconsin; the Reformed
Catholics III New York, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Illinois. The Roman
Catholic church is divided into thirteen
provinces, when embrace thirteen arch
dioceSes, siXty-siX diOceseS, five vicar
rates apostolic and one prefecture apos-
tOlic. 1t has
IO,22I Organizations
or congregations, of which 1,496, or Il
per cent, meet in halls, school houses
and public places. The church owns
S,76j houses of worship. including ca
thedrals. churches and chapels, valued
at S1lS.3S1, SIG. 1t has a total of $780,
045 communicates, of whom One-half
are to be found in the dioceseS in the
five states of New York. Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio.
The archdiocese of New York, conf
prising the counties of New York,
Westminster, Putnam, Ulster, Sullivan,
Duchess, Orange, ROckland, Clinton
and Richmond, has 472,S06 communl-
cants, with church property valued at
S.. 1872, 525. The archdiocese of Boston,
embracing the counties of Essex, Mid
dleseX, Suffolk, Norfolk and Plymouth,
comes next in number of commune
cantS, reporting 4l9,660. with church
property valued at ST. 479, 07S and that
of Chicago, including Cook and seven
teen other counties, is third,
with 326,640 communicates and
church property valued at $6,457.-
064. The total number of COM
municants, 6,250,045. are attached to
10,221 organizations Churches, chaDels
and stationS), making an average of Gil
communicates to each congregation.
OF the 10,221 organizations 1869 or
IA per cent, worship in halls, school
houses or private houses, which, ex-
elusive of private houses. represent
seating capacity of SO, 159, while the
S,765 Edifces
owned by the church have a seating ca
pacIty of 1866, 633, making a total of
700 for fhn xuhOln nlurnh tathi0l il
somewhat more than half the number of
communicates. Some of the parishes
which have no church edifces, but use
temporarily such accommodations as
private houses can afford, are very
large. One of these parishes reports no
fewer than 1900 communicates. 1n
eleven of the eighty-fve sees, including
the archdiocese of New Orleans, Phila-
delphia and San Francisco, every Or
ganiZation has its own church edifice.
The total value of church property, in
Guiding edifices, the ground on which
they stand, furniture, bells, etc, is
of each edifce is. therefore,
about SIS, 500. The metropolitan see,
OF New York, with its 472, SO6
communicates, has church property
valued at S9,OO0,OO0; that of Chicago
comes second, with property worth
Sc, 457 ,064, and that of Boston third, with
a total of s6,379.07S; Brooklyn comes
fourth, with valuation of S5,75l.-
9O7, and Newark fifth, with 81, 297, 1872.
These five sees have more than a fourth
of the entire valuation of the church.
In the distribution of communicates the
archdiocese of New York comes first,
with 472, sos; Boston second. with 49,
66S; Chicago third. with 326,640; Phila-
delphia fourth, with 251, 1862; Brooklyn
fifth. with BPS. 7S5; St. Paul sixth, with
204. 4S4, and Baltimore seventh, with
1872, 597. There are p sees which con-
tain upward of 100000 communicates
each.
The Seating Capacity
is for church edifices only, exclusive of
halls and school buildings, and the COM
municants are those belonging TO par