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Churches, 1872

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Statistics of the Russian Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 7

THE Sunday Magazine has the following:--In Father Gagarin's work on "The Russian Clergy,' the number of parishes in Russia is given as 36,000, and the aggregate of the incomes of…

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The Christian Advocate on the General Synod of the Church of England

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 6

THE principal difficulty which the General Synod "of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania" seems to have encountered hitherto, has been to decide what it really is,…

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The Old Catholic Congress at Cologne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 December 1872 · page 3

ON September 20 the congress was opened with Divine service at the Gurzenich. About 400 delegates were present. Professor Schulte, of Prague, was elected chairman of the congress, and dwelt at…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 December 1872 · page 8

NOVEMBER 8.—St. Mark's Church, Bulla Creek, in the Goulburn diocese, was opened for divine worship, the R[?]vs. F. R. Seaborne and E. H. A. Gwynne being the officiating clergymen. The building is of wood, with iron roofing,…

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Sudden Death of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool

Evening News · Tuesday 3 December 1872 · page 3

Yesterday evening, at half-past 8 o'clock, Dr. Gore, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, died at the College in that town. He had attended morning ser. vice at tie College, and at i in the afternoon visited…

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Sudden Death Op the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool

Empire · Thursday 5 December 1872 · page 4

YESTERDAY evening, at half-past 8 o'clock, Dr. Goss, the Roman Cathelic Bishop of Liverpool, died at the College in that town. He had attended morning service at the College, and at 4 in the afternoon visited…

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France. M. About on the Catholic Clergy

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 3

In the narrative of his imprisonment which M. About has recently given to the papers, he speaks as follows of the Catholic clergy of Alsace:—…

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Solemn Dedication of St. Patrick's Church, Albury

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 10

On Sunday, the 24th November, this splendid church, the erection of which has been watched with so much interest by the Catholics of the district, was opened and solemnly dedicated in…

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Queensland. Ipswich Roman Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 6

It is rumoured that the Roman Catholic Church in this town is about to meet with a heavy loss in the departure from it by the Very Rev. Dean Brun, and Messrs. Breen and…

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Great Britain. Dr. Manning on Catholic Education

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 3

On Sunday, September 15, Archbishop planning preachedin St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, in aid of the Catholic schools of the parish. The large building was crowded…

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Sudden Death of the Roman Catholic Bishop Oe Liverpool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 23

Yesterday evening, at half-past 8 o'clock, Dr. Goss, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, died at the College in that town. He had attended morning service at the College, and at 4 in the afternoon visited…

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Dedication of St. Patrick's Church, Albury

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 10

The 27th of November, 1872, will be long remembered in Albury. The events of the day were among the most striking and the grandest that lever witnessed. From the earliest dawn…

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Church Meetings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 746

ON Monday evening, 9th instant a tea-meeting was held in the Congregational schoolroom, Newtown, on occasion of the departure of the Rev. S. C. Kent from the colony, to become pastor of Victoria Parade chapel, Melbourne. The…

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Roman Catholic Church, Nagambie

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 6

On Sunday, let December, the foundation-stone of a new church was laid at Nagamble, by the Right Rev. Dr. Goold. The B'shop was assisted by the Rev. Father Farrelly, who…

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Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Adelaide

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 7

THIS handsome edifice was duly opened for divine worship on Sunday, 23rd June last. The style of the building is Gothic, of an early period. The exterior is of dark rubble,…

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Memorial Congregational Church, Hobart Town

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 5

In this number we give an engraving, from a photograph by Charles A. Wooley, of the Memorial Congregational Church recently erected in Hobart Town. An inspection of…

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Telegrams This Day. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] Burned in an Epileptic Fit. the Moonta Mining Company. Catholic Education in Victoria. Lead From Western Australia. Yield of Gold in Gippsland. Coal Prospects. the Intercolonial Conference. the Midsummer Handicap at Melbourne. Munificent Donation. Advance in the Price of Iron. Melbourne. Tuesday, 8.20 p.m

Evening News · Thursday 26 December 1872 · page 2

The Chief Justice heard evidence as to the previous characters of Mount and Morris, and said that it was uncertain whether the Court could pass a longer sentence than two years…

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Anglican Developments

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 4

In the Protestant Episcopal Convention of the diocese of New York, Bishop Potter has been impressing on his audience the necessity of erecting a cathedral in New York city,…

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Catholic France

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 11

In a book, written many years ago, M. Guizot, the like Protestant Minister of Louis Phillipe, laid it down as an axiom that France was an originator of all the ideas that…

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The Australian Holy Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 December 1872 · page 2

GUILD,—The new rules of this excellent Benefit Society have recently received the sanction of hi Grace the Archbishop ; the most important of which is the reduction in the…

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