Churches Clergyman Convents Monasteries
Dioceses 1856 1864 1856 1864 1856 1864 1856 1864
Westminster 56 117 129 214 5 15 18 31
Beverly 75 90 93 116 3 6 7 19
Birmingham 96 100 132 141 3 3 19 27
Clifton. 37 49 50 62 2 3 5 13
Hexham 63 81 72 99 — 1 4 11
Liverpool 94 110 166 195 2 5 12 25
Newport 35 42 29 47 — 3 3 6
Northampton 30 36 25 31 — — 2 5
Nottingham 42 52 47 59 3 5 5 5
Plymouth 26 35 28 34 — — 3 8
Salford 47 70 72 107 1 5 9 14
Shrewsbury 53 59 52 71 1 3 3 7
Southwark 79 100 90 147 3 9 10 15
Total 730 941 985 1321 23 58 100 187
-730
-985
-23
-100
Increase
211
336
35
87

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IV. Let us now step over to the Continent, and investigate the increase of Catholicity in a province where Protestantism has had it all its own way since the beginning of the Reformation—we allude to Holland. To understand the progressive development of Catholicity in the Low Countries, we need only compare the figures of two years, with an interval of half a century intervening between them:

Years Catholic
population 		Parishes Clergyman Churches
1864 1,300,000 941 1725 976
1814 850,000 814 1216 898
Increase in 50 years 450,000 127 310 78

The amount expended in repairing the old and building new churches is reckoned, during this lapse of time, at thirty millions of Dutch florins, a little more than sixty-four millions of francs [over $18,560,000—Ed. CW.] All that government has contributed of its own toward this sum amounts only to two millions of florins. In the above sum of thirty millions no account is taken of what has been expended in churches and chapels belonging to religious communities, or for convents, hospitals, charitable institutions, orphan asylums, and the like. Add to this what has been contributed for the endowments of those places, and the original sum of sixty-four millions of francs becomes well-nigh double its amount.

V. But nowhere has the Catholic Church increased so prosperously, within the last fifty years, as in the United States of America. Above two thousand churches and chapels built; an increase of one thousand and eight hundred clergymen; one hundred and sixty schools established, for the Catholic training of 18,000 boys and 34,600 girls. Moreover, there existed in 1857 sixty-six asylums, with 4,963 orphans of both sexes; twenty-six hospitals, with three thousand beds; four insane asylums, with eighty-two patients, beside many other charitable institutions, all established and supported by the private charity of Catholics. Here we copy a comparative table from the "Metropolitan Catholic Almanac" of 1857:

Year Dioceses Vicariates Apostolic Bishops ClergymanChurches & Stations Ecclesiastic Institutions CollegesSchools for Girls
1808 1 — 2 68 80 2 1 2
1830 11 — 10 232 230 9 6 20
1840 16 — 17 482 812 13 9 47
1850 27 — 27 1081 1578 29 17 91
1854 41 2 39 1574 2458 34 20 112
1857 41 2 39 1872 2882 35 29 134
1861 [Ed. Cath. World] 43 3 45 2317 3795 49 — —

VI. Canon Joseph Ortalda, in a work of great value, [Footnote 68] the result of much labor and accurate investigations, supplies us with two very interesting documents. One is a Synoptic Table of the missions in Asia, exhibiting both the number of Catholics in each mission and that of missionaries employed in them; a number, by the way, generally very inadequate, especially when we take into consideration the vast territories over which every mission is extended.

[Footnote 68: "Italian Apostolic Missionaries in the Foreign Missions, over the Four Parts of the World." Turin: G. Marietti, 1864. Ortalda's intent is to prove before the Senate of the Kingdom of Piedmont how the suppression of religious orders would be injurious to the Church and to civilization, whilst from their bosoms go forth so many missionaries to all parts of the world.]

APOSTOLIC VICARATES MISSIONARIES CATHOLICS
Aleppo 25 80,000
Asia Minor 70 100,000

China and adjacent kingdoms:
Xensi 16 30,000
Xansi 12 20,000
Hu-pè, in the Hu-quang,
native missionaries, 14 11 15,865
Hu-nan, in the Hu-quang 7 10,000
Sut-chuen, North-west vicariate 15 23,000
Sut-chuen, Eastern Vicariate 12 17,000
Sut-chuen, Southern Vicariate 14 20,000
Konein-kon 7 10,000
Lassa 5 7,000
Jun-nan 6 8,000
To-chien 14 30,000
Nankin 36 73,000
Pekin, Western Vicariate 17 30,000
Pekin, Southwestern Vicariate 15 26,600
Pekin, Eastern Vicariate 12 13,000
Tse-Kiang 6 5,000
Kiang-si 8 10,000
Lenotung 9 11,000
Mongolia 8 10,000
Xan-tung 11 12,000
Ho-nan 6 5,000
Siam, Western Vicariate 12 10,000
Siam, Eastern Vicariate 20 30,000
Cochin, Eastern Vicariate 29 32,000
Cochin, Northern Vicariate 21 25,000
Cochin, Western Vicariate 19 30,000
Camboge, and the people of Laos 10 15,000
Tonchin, Eastern Vicariate 13 54,000
Tonchin, Western Vicariate 85 135,000
Tonchin, Southern Vicariate 49 80,000
Tonchin, Central Vicariate 62 150,000
Corea 12 15,000

East Indies:
Japan 10 12,060
Ava and Pegu 11 8,000
Bombay, South Mission 20 15,000
Bombay, North Mission 15 13,000
Bengal, Western Vicariate
(Calcutta) 12 15,000
Bengal, Eastern Vicariate 6 9,000
Ceylon—Colombo 18 84,900
Ceylon—Safnapatam 17 60,000
Madras 18 44,880
Hyderbad 7 4,000
Visagapatam 15 7,130
Pondicherry 53 100,000
Mayssour 16 17,110
Coimbatour 11 17,200
Sardhana 12 15,000
Agra 25 20,000
Patna 10 4,000
Verapolis—native priests,
Latin rite 28, Syriac 340 7 330,000
Canara, or Mangalor—
Native priests 24 7 40,000
Quilon—Native priests 17 8 50,000
Madura 37 140,000

APOSTOLIC DELEGATIONS

Persia, Mesopotamia,
Kurdistan, and Armenia Minor 30 25,000
Syria—Holy Land alone counts 54 28,986

APOSTOLIC PREFECTURES
Aden, in Arabia 3 1,300
Hong-Kong, in China 7 5000
Hai-noou, Quan-tong,
Quan-si, China 31 40,000
For the French colonies in India 12 7,000
For the Dutch colonies in
India and Oceania 7 1,000
Laboan and adjacent places 6 3,000