ECCLESIASTICAL STATISTICS OF GERMANY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 60, 3 May 1873, Page 6

ECCLESIASTICAL STATISTICS OF GERMANY.

(Compiled for this Paper.)

In thi* compilation we shall speak not of the German Empire, but of Germany. Our object is to give the statistics of the Church in the German Land. The recently established Empire does not include all Germany, and is not conterminous with it ; and whilst containing only a part of Germany proper, comprises within it other lands and other races besides the German. An asterisk (*), however, will be placed before the names of the Dioceses and the Ecclesiastical Conscriptions of the Empire. We have not been able to find any reliable authorities of a more recent date than 1850. An accurate idea, however, can be formed I>y allowing for the usual percentage of increase in population, &o. In the year 1850, Germany had forty-two millions of inhabitants, of whom twenty-three millions were Catholics. Without counting some exempted Bishoprics — that is, such as are immediately su.bordiu.ate to the Holy See, and some Vicariates Apostolic — this country had nine Archiepiscopal Sees, each of which had under it one or more Suffragan Dioceses. These constituted nine ecclesiastical provinces. 1. The Archdiocese of Vienna in Austria, Suffragan, Line and St. Poelten. 2. Archdiocese of Salzburg, Suffragan, Tient, Brixen, Lavant, the See of which is at St. Andre, Gurk, Seckan, Loeben. S. Archdiocese of Goritz iv Illyria, Suffragan, Trieste aad Capodistria, Farenz and Pola, Layboch. 4. Archdiocese of Prague in Bohemia, Suffragan, Leitmeriht, Koeniggritz, Bridiveis. 5. Archdiocese of Olmutz in Moravia, Suffragan Brann. # 6. Archdiocese of Munich' Freysingen, iv Upper Bavaria, Suffragan, Augsburg, Katesbonne, Passau. *7. Archdiocese of Bamberg, in the Bavarian Province of Upper Franconia, Suffragan, Eichstadt, Wourtzbourg, ipire. *&. Archdiocese of Cologne, in Rhenish Prussia, Suffragan, Munster, Paderhorn, Treves. *9. Archdiocese of Fribourg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, isuffragan, Mayence, Kottenbourg Limbourg, and Fulda. Besides these 9 provinces, there were 3 Bishoprics which were exempt, viz. .- — *1. Breslau in Silesia. *2. Osnabruck in Hanover. *3. Hildesheim in Hanover. And 4 Vicariates Apostolic, viz. : — *1. Luxembourg. *2. Saxony. *3. Anhalt. *4. The Vicariate of the North, comprising the Faithful of the three free cities, and those of Holesteiu and Meek* lembourg. In frne, two Delegations. *1. Brandobourg. *2. Pomerania. Since 1850, we believe some changes have taken place. For example, the Vicaviato of Luxembourg hxg been raised to the position of a Diocese in Ordinary, and a Vicar Apostolic, who is a Bishop in Partibus, has baen appointed to Berlin. As will be perceived, we do not speak of East and West Prussia and the Polish Province of Poson, though forming part of the present German Empire. The reason of this has been stated above. The following table gives the number of canons, deans, and parishes, and Catholic population, in each of cheße Dioceses : —

The total number of secular priests is 28,148 : to these are to be added 4350 belonging to the various religious orders, iraUng in all 32,498 priests for the service of 23,000,000 Catholics. Number of houses belonging to religious orders :- — Men- 873 having 6500 religious, of whom 4350 were priests. Women — 174 having 6000 religious. 12,500 religious of both sexes. Theological JEatahlishmenU. Faculties of Theology. 10 attached to the Universities of Bonn, Breslan, Fribourg, Gratz, Munich, Olmutz, Pragua, Tubinjjue, Vienna, and Wnrtzbourg. 14 attached to the Lyceums at Amberg, Bamberg, Dilingen, Eichstiidt, Feusing, Layback, Sti<z, Klagenfurt, Munster, Pailerborn, Pas-.au, Ratisbor.no, Salzbourg, Trente. 10 special Theologic.il Institutes at^Brunn, Budeweis, Leitmeritz, St. Poelten, Trieste, Mayence. Fuldo, Hildesheim, Treves, Luxembourg. Seminaries for Priests, 37 ; Petits Seminaircs, 25. Number of theological students, 2300 We hove not been able to ascertain the precise number of students in tha Petits Semiuaires.

Dioceses. '. •Augsburg •Fribourg •Cologne •Treves Rottenbourg •Breslau •Hatisbonne Wurzbourg •Munich Vienna Olmutz •Paderhorn Prague Brunn Muniter Linz St. Poelten Leitmeritz O-arks Koeniggratz Badeweiss Luxembourg Secitan Spire Eichstadt Brixen La] bach Goriti Baicberg Lnvant Salzbourg Loeben Mayence Passau Limbourg Trenta Osnnbruck Ifildesheim Trieste, Cap. Fulda Parezo Poln Vie. Saxony Del. Berlin Vie North Vio. Anhnlt JNo. of Parishes 823 801 745 705 652 498 463 424 422 416 396 394 37.*! 372 354 340 316 308 247 2*o 261 ; 236 214 206 201 193 189 182 181 169 165 155 154 149 147 143 99 82 . 79 78 4,7 21 12 7 2 NO. Of Catholics. 598,935 990,000 1,164,874 736,680 554,814 1,416,489 647,250 481,756 , 505,669 1,003,177 1,324,696 538,000 1,363,000 737,366 500,000 706,556 503,684 1,019,527 228,802 1,223.686 994,360 190,000 645,385 261,876 153,277 878,656 499,032 J 87,190 257,465 351,257 202,222 186,997 218,500 278,352 203.255 435,907 170,000 63,000 243,0-41 120,000 60,743 32,845 37,181 8,000 1.350 No. of Canons. 8 6 12 10 7 12 10 10 12 12 23 10 12 6 10 7 7 6 8 8 7 7 10 10 8 10 7 12 6 12 7 10 7 7 7 7 5 5 No. of Deans. 40 39 41 26 29 84 31 30 36 24 54 37 43 36 20 26 20 33 17 81 .37 13 28 11 17 27 20 15 20 20 19 16 17 18 15 35 7 12 14 10 6 t No. of Secular, Priests. 1423 1163 1436 760 896 1237 1188 732 1152 730 W93 809 1192 727 1050 694 497 779 419 908 774 351 588 '656 320 990 674 408 880 417 424 175 224 441 247 1448 291 159 315 130 133 52 18 12 4