304
ITALY.
Oriental Bite: —
"With Ecclesiastical Provinces :
Armenian .......... 1
Greco-Roumaic ......... 1
Greco-Ruthenian ........ 1
Under Oriental Patriarchs :
Greco-Melchite . . .... ... 3
Syro-Maronite 1
139
III. Bishoprics. Latin Fife: — ■
Suburban 6
Immediately subject to the Holy See 84
Suffragan, in Ecclesiastical Provinces 570
Oriental Site: —
Armenian . . . . . . . . . .16
Greco-Melchite ......... 8
Greco-Roumaic ......... 3
Greco-Ruthenian ........ 5
Greco-Bulgarian 1
Syriac 11
Syro-Chaldaic 12
Syro-Maronite ......... 7
723
Sees 'in Paetibtts Infidelium.'
Archbishoprics .36
Bishoprics 198
234
The summary stands as follows : —
Patriarchates ......... 12
Archbishoprics . . . . • • • .175
Bishoprics 921
Total . . . 1,108
There were vacant at the commencement of the year 1870, according to the Annuario Pontificio :
Patriarchates ......... 1
Archbishoprics in Ordinary 16
Bishoprics in Ordinary 106
Total . 123
Thus the actual number of prelates composing the upper Catholic Hierarchy throughout the world was 935.
