WHAT THE ENGLISH STATE CHURCH COSTS.

Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 1, 5 January 1878, Page 6

WHAT THE ENGLISH STATE CHURCH COSTS.

The Stale Chunch costs a great deal in many ways. It exists at a great cost of time to Parliament, at a great cost of peace to the nation, at a great cost to many necessary reforms, at a great cost to truth. But it costs also inucli in money. How much exactly it costs in this way i* not known, lor when a motion was made in Parliament for an inquiry into this subject, it was successfully resisted. But official and other r-turns five somo authentic information, from which it is found : 1. That the yearly revenues of tin- Kstahlished Church amount to more than six millions sterMn^. 2. Of this sum, the bishops r«-reive as fol'ovs • B»oiror, £4o°-,; Bath and WMls, 4-5000; Canterbury Arrhhisiiep), £15,000; Carlisle, £4o<Hj ; Cb >ter, £4500 " Ch:<-iiest; -r, £4suo ; Durham, £Bo< 0 ; Kly, £5500 ; Kxeter £SOOO ; Gl.uiij s-tcr ami Bristol, £souo; Meref«.r.< )0 • L.chti. Id, £4500 ; Lincoln, .£SOOO ; Llandatl". ,0 • Londo», £l'\ooo : Manchester, £4OOO ; Xcnvin., JO' Oxford, 1*5000; Peterborough, £4s< 0 ; iiipc., £45,0' Uoc-hester, £SOOO : Salisbury, £SOOO ; So.h.r and Man' £2OOO ; St. Asaph, £4200 ; St David's, £4300 ; Winches' VT\^"- 000; Wor ' ' sf "% £SOUO ; York (Aichi.ishop), £lo,ooo—total, £154.000. Besides this, most of the hislu>ns occupy lar«re palaces with extensive landed estates. The palace ami estate of Hi - Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol cost £23.9 8; the estate of the Bishop of Hot it• >t»-r 'cost £28.157 ; and the palace and estate of tr.e Bishop of Line..ln cost £52,194. The Archbishop «f Canterbury has two palaces, one at Mambeth and theotb. rat Addington, in Surrey. The pleasure lauds alone attached to tb« last palace comprise 457 acres. 1 ht; total annual value of the Cathedral property ii about £400,000. The average value for three years ending 1873 of the property of the following Cathedrals was as tolh.ws Canterbury, £21.079 ; Lou.lt.n, £18,480 ; \\ est minster, £51,440: Winchester, £18,686; Elv £19.869 ; Oxford, £21,0-8 ; Durham, £73.414. 'I he Dean of Durham receives £3OOO »• vear : other d- ans receive £2OOO and £IOOO a year. The canons, wh# reside only three months a year each, r< ccivu in some cases £IOOO, so that it costs £4OOO a year to maintain a

BUiitl*- canon in residence. All that iH uon.- n.r tliis i„ t - preach, occasionally. The rest of rhe war the canon* ar supposed to he «t tlicir benefices—for they hold large b«nenfos as well ps cauonrics. 5. R.he total income of the parochial clerpy is estimated at four millions and a half, must of whi« h is d. riv*d from M.e compulsory < xaction of tithes. This is very unequally divided. Sonic, living in small country parishes, having little to do, receive from £ 1000 lo £*ooo and more a var, wliilo others Jivinff in towns and having heavy duties, receive the smallest salarh s. 6- The r» venues of the ch-rpy are beinp increased everv year hy the Ecclesiastical Commission and Queen Ante's Bounty, both bodies havinp been established by Act of Parliament for that jurpose. The ordinary revenue of the Kcclesiastical Commission is upwards of A million stt-rhnp, and that of the Queen Anne's Bounty £l2B 000. most 7. The Established Church receives "from Parliament upwards of half rj million a year for educational purposes, *nd ha* r<-C'-iyed, for s!k: same purpng.., since 1839, moro thnn ten millions st<M"!inif.—Liberation Society.