The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-21
EPIsCOPAL CHURCH.
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Journal Of Conyenuon-interestin sta-
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 The journal of the annual conven' ton of the Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of Connecticut. held at Bridgeport in June last. has just been published in It's usual handsome shape by the secretary. the Rev. Melville K. Bailey, It contains. besides the jour nal proper. full lists of the officers of the diocese and members Of It's sevs rai boards. reports of officers and boards of trustees and directors. re- ports of parishes and of non-parochial ciergymen, with the constitution and canons. The whole number of clergy. men on the roll in June was 2o6, inelu- ding one bishop. 1s7 presbyters and IS deacons. Of these 23 were non-resi- dent and 26 others were without set tied cures. though not all of them were without regular duties. The oldest clergyman in order of canonical resi- dence is the Rev. R. NJ. Warrington. ordained in 1888. and rector of Christ church, Greenwich. since 1899; the old est in ordination is the Rev. Samuel Fuller. D. D.. of Middletown. ordained by Bishop Hobart July l, 1927.
 The whole number of parishes enti- tied to representation In the conven- ton Is 14s, for whom 243 delegates were on the roll, Of these the largest are Christ church, Hartford. reporting 9O9 | registered communicants; Trinity church, New Haven, reporting 7S5; St. Paul's, New Haven, reporting 7S4; St. Johns, Stamford, reporting 722; st. Johns. Waterbury. reporting 72o; St. Paul's church, New Haven, has the largest number of Sunday scholars, 525 with 56 teachers.
 The summary of parochial reports for the year shows the number of baptisms | to be 2,230 C, Q,s43 infants and 3S7 adults)i combinations, 1,27S; marriages, 6l9 burials. 1860. The whole number Of registered communicants is given as 29,324, and the whole number of Sun. day scholars as 17,142, the teachers numbering 1919. The total of contri buttons for the year was s501.000, be. sides $2s,000 income from property. Oi this sum $261 ,000 was given in one way or another for parochial support. and $130,000 for parochial endowment ant improvement of property, etc.. leaving $110,0Q0 of contributions for charitable purposes; and of this amount, $50, ,00, was given for parochial work, $26,0O0 fol diocesan work, $25000 for domestic church work, 5000 for foreign mis sions, and s4,OOO for other charities.
 The treasurer of the diocese received about $1.5O0 from assessments on thu parishes, and had large balance ol hand. The trustees of the bishop fund reported an income from invest ments almost exactly equaling tn amount of the bishops salary, and tn convention, in view of possible depre citation of property or diminution 0 the rate of interest, voted that an ef fort be made for a considerable increas of the fund. The trustees of the fun for aged and inflrm clergy and widow and orphans of clergymen reported a income of s5,20O, from which twenty seven beneiciaries were assisted; an the church scholarship society loane nearly s1,900 to students for the minis try. The appropriations of the mis sionary society of the diocese, paid t f1fty-one parishes and missions, wer about $11,70O. Other matters special considered in the convention were
 general pension fund for the clergy, tn securing of an endowment for the Epis copal Academy at Cheshire, which now entering upon it's second century the provision of scholarships for daugf ters of the clergy at St. Margaret school, the distribution of the prayer book, and the preservation of ancien parochial records On each of thes subjects commission or a committe was appointed, to report to the mex convention.