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RETURN OF CHURCHES, CHAPELS, GRANTS, &c.
Denomination
Estimated total
number of
followers.
Number of
Churches
or Chapeis.
uross amount
of Assistance
to ilenomination
or mission from
Public Funds, if any.
Remarks
Autocephalous
Chnrch of
Cyprus
Greek-Orthodox
Moslem
Maronites
R o m a n CathoUcs
252,000
G2.000
1,200
950
657 Churches
11 Ccenobitical
Monasteries
84 non-Ccenobitical
Monasteries
202 Mosques
15 Tekyes or
Couveuts of
Dervishes
8 Seminaries
3 Churchc3
4 Monasteries
4 Churches
4 Convents
——*-
—
This is the Church of the Islaud. die
second in Antiquity of Chris.i*in
Churches.
The only other significant Religions
Community.
Under the Archbishop of Syria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerosaiem.
Armenian
Gregorian
Church of England
Presbyterians,
etc.
Jews
640
400
100
200
2 Churches
1 Monastery
3 Churches
2 Church H o o m s
1 Church
1 Svna!**o-**"t.e
i Under the Armenian Patriarch of Con-
stantiuople.
Under the Bishop—in—Jerusalem at
the District Towns, for the Official
j Community.
; Chiefly attached to the P-eformed Presbj*
i terians at Larnaca.
A settlement at Margo and a in
scattered Communities.
X O T I : . — This Island is not adapted for Missionary "Work as usually understood and iu that sense there is practically
none, nor does any Denomination receive State Aid.
C A L E X D A
R.
The
•ii)i
;
i.-*-:.;.:••>•!-•:! Calendar
Years
c<*:n:i,c:u*c at the
dates
specified in
the Gregorian Year I'j2l
:—
1.
Oit'.m*!:*
:
*.ci.*l*-:.si;:stieal the Ilejira. I.'.-.O begins .'ird
September, 192U.
2. Ottoman
Financial. i.i-JT begins 14th March, 1921.
.'). Julian r"')l<i
Style," 1921 begins
U t h
January,
l'.)21.
4. A;:;,.-.:...:, .*;..*ele*-.a-*.Ucal,
1.071
begins 24th
August,
1!)2<>.
... Arni-i.ia!) National.
4414 begins 21st August, 1921.