WHAT THE ENGLISH STATE CHURCH COSTS.

Inangahua Times, 4 January 1878, Page 2

WHAT THE ENGLISH STATE CHURCH COSTS.

Tho State Church costs ii grenfc doa in many wtiyp. It oxists at a great cost of limo to Parliamenr^ Ht a grent cost of pouco to tlto nation, at a grent cost to many nsooHsnry refoims. at n grent cost to truth. Hnt it costs also much in money. How much exactly it costs in this way is not known, for when a, motion was made in Parliament for an inquiry info this mbjeot it w»» snocpssfully re* nistod. But official and other returns give flomo authentic information, from, which it in found :— 1. That tl'o'Rrohß yoarJjyacO)|^tho KsUnlished Churoli ampgffij^Cm> Ihun six milliona sterliug |^^^^^.^lv • n 2. Of tliiß «urn tliOMlPjlpfp^! |f*J»^ follows t — Bangor, £ ipCk)f Wells, £50 0; Can'erbnry (A#ol||i^)|! £15,000; Carlislo, £4800 'ffi%Iet|»kUr^ £4600 j Durham; *)^000; r ||jf; u 3sKfl » Exotor, £5000 j Glouonster^id^ Bristol, £5000; Hereford, £4240 ; Liipfn 1 , £4500; Lincoln, £6000 ; Linnilaft £4200 ; Lon» don, £10.000 ; Manohostor, £'1000; Norwich, £45(W ; Oxford, £5000; Peterborough, £4500 , Kipon, £4500 5 Uochesior £5000; Salisbury, £5000 5 Sodor and Man, £2000$ St Acaph, £4200; Sb DavidN, £4500 ; Winchester, M&)o 5 York (Arch-, bishop), £10,000— total/ £154,000. Besides this, most of th<? bishops occupy largo palaces, with exionsivo landed estates. Tho palaeo nnd csfato of the Bishon of Gloucester nnd Hristol oost £23.008; tho palnco nnd ostato of tho Biidiop of Itoohestor oost £28.157; ani tho pnlaco nnd estnto of tho Bishop of Lincoln erst £52,19-4. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury has two palacos, ono at Lambeth, and tho other at Addiugton, iv Surrey. Tho ploaxuro lands nlono attached to tho last palaeo comprise 457 acres 3. Iho nnnuul rutuo of tho Cathedral proporty is about £100,000, Tho tiverago value for thrco years ending 1873 of tho proporty of the following Onthodrals was as follows :— OintH'bury, £21,079 ; London, £18,480 ; W stminstor, £51,410; Winchester, £18,680 ; Ely, £19,869 ; Oxford, £21,023 j Dvi >«m, £73.414. 4. Tho Dean of J'uruam rocoivos £3000 a year ; othor deans roociyo £2000 and £1000 a yoar oaoh. The canons, who resido only thrco months a year oaoh, rocoivo in somo cases £1000, so that it costs £1000 a year to maintain a single canon in residonoo; All that is done for this is to preach occasionally. Tho rest of tho yoar tho canons aro suppored to bo at their bonoQoos— for thoy hold largo bene* flees as well as cannonios. 6. Tho total income of tho pnroocial clergy is estimated at four millions and a half, most of whioh is derived from tho compulsory exaction of tithes. This is vory unequally divided. Somo living in small country parishes, having littlo to do rceoivo from £1000 to £2000 a yoar, whilo others living in largo towns and having heavy duties, roooivo tho smallest salaries. 6. The lovonucs of the clergy aro boing increased every year by tho Ecclesiastical Commission and Qucon Anuo's Bounty both bodios having been established by Act of Parliament for that purpose. The ordinary rovonuo of tho Ecclesiastical Commission is upwards of a million sterling and that of tho Quocn Anuo's Bounty £198,000, most of which is doyotod to this purpose.

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