The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-05
TRINITY CHURCH LEADS.
CHURCH ON GREEN HAS 11S2
 COMMUNTCANTS.

in State is Rev. N. l.. Garfield
 The journal of the convention of the Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, held in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford, on the 18th day of June last, has been published under the careful and experienced editorship of the sec retary, Rev. pr. Frederick w. Harri- man of Windsor. It contains, as usual, besides the minutes, the missionary, financial and other reports of the last year, with lists of diocesan officers, clergymen canonically resident, and parishes. with their lay deputies. Changes which have occurred since the convention are noted from as late as September 6.
 It appears from the reports that there are now one hundred and fifty-one ful- ly organized parishes in the diocese of Connecticut, besides twenty paroehial missions and chapels, thirty-tWo other missions and chapels, and eight chap els of institutions, making in all two hundred and eleven places of public worship. The number of clergymen on the roll, including the bishop, is two hundred and twelve, but of these thir- ty-four were residing without the state, and sixteen living in Connecticut were at the time of the convention without parochial charge or other definite sphere of duty. ,,...
 The senior clergyman in the diocese by continuous residence is Rev. Peter L. Shepard of Clinton, ordained in 1855.
 The senior rector is Rev. Louis French, who has been in charge of St. Lukes church, Darien, since August ?, 1863. The senior clergyman by ordina- ton is Rev. Nathaniel L. Garfield of New Haven, who was ordained by Bishop Alonzo Potter of Pennsylvania in 1S4S; and next to him, and it's oldest in active service, is Rev. John T., Hun tington of Hartford, (years ago rector of St. Johns church on State street, New Haven), ordained by Bish- op BrowneIl, August 2S, 1853. Forty four clergymen have had an unbroken canonical residence in the diocese for the past twenty-five years.
 The reports of the board of diocesan missions and those of the treasurers of the several funds were summarized in the report of the proceedings of the convention, but some of the data from the totals of paroehial reports may be given here. The total present number of communieants is given as 35,S44, or about one in twenty seven of the popu- lation as given in the last published annual estimate of the state board of health, The two parishes reporting the 1 largest number of eommunicants are in 1 New Haven, Trinity church having 1 1,1S2 and St. Pauls church 1,144. Trin- ity church.. Waterbury, has S43; St. Andrews, Meriden, has S03, and Christ church, Hartford, 714. The largest ra- i tio of communica1lts to the population | seems to be in Brookfe1d, where there ! are 220 communicants of St. PauFs l church in population Gin 1901) of 1,O46.
 In the last conventional year the number of baptisns in the diocese was 2,294, including 1911 baptisns of in- l fants or nearly one-elevents of. the children born in the state in a year, The number of marriages was 7O9, also about one-eleventh of all the marriages | in the state; and the number of burials 1 was 1923, which approXimates to one- l eighth of the number of deaths in the 1 state. This last ratio may show that the Episcopal church ministers to a large number of persons who have no special ecclesiastical connection; and the same thought is suggested by the large number of burials reported by ! city parishes, as for instance St. Johns | church Stamford, reports IS, St. Paul's, New Haven, "A; Christ church, | Hartford, 54 the two parishes in Wa 1 terbury, S7. The number of Sunday scholars seems small as compared with that of comnunioants, being only 17,096.
 The total amount of parochial expen- ditures for the year is reported as abut $521, ,4Os.a The contributions for di- ocesan purposes were little over for ty-eight thousand dollars, and those for extra diocesan purposes were about $505OO, of which rather less than thir- teen thousand dollars seems to have i been designated for foreign missions, ! The grand total of some six hundred and twenty thousand dollars, of which about one-te11th is income from invest ments, is about $l7.50 for each commu- nicant.
 A list of the places of meeting of the
 convocation and the convention of the diocese is printed, with list of it's elected officials from the beginning.
 Rev. Dr. Storrs o. Seymour, of Litch- field, president of the standing commit
 tee, has been chosen a member of that
 body by thirty consecutive annual elec- tions, and has already surpassed in
 length of service all his predecessors,
 except Rev. pr. E. E. Beardsley of New
 Haven, each of whom was elected thir- ty-three times, and Rev. Dr. Harry
 Crosswell of New Haven, who was cleo | ted at times.
 The journal in many ways witnesses to the manifold activities of diocesan and parochial work.
 TROLLEYMEN MAY HOLD A FAIR,