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RETURN OF CHURCHES, CHAPELS, GRANTS, Ac.
Denomination
Estimated total
number of
followers.
Number
of
('.lurches
or
Chapels.
ii rod*
amount
of Assistance
1
to denomination
j or mission from
! Public Funds, if an/.
Remarks.
Autocephalous
Chnrch of
Cyprus
Greek-Orthodox
Moslem
270,570
Maro intea
Latin Catholics
Armenian
Gregorian
Church of England
Presbyterians
Other Protestants
.fews
63.330
1.600
1.000
2,500
250
110
90
50
659 Churches
11 Ccenobitical
Monasteries
34 non-Coenobitical
Monasteries
202 Mosques
15 Tekyes or
Convents of
Dervishes
8 Seminaries
8 Churches
4 Monasteries
3 Churches
2 Convents
3 Monasteries
2 Churches
I Monastery
3 Churches
2 Church Rooms
1 Church
I Church R o o m
I Synagogue
1 R o o m
This is the Church of the Island, the
second in Antiquity of Christian
Churches.
The only other significant Beligioni
Community.
Under the Archbishop of Syria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Under the Armenian Patriarch (" Catho*
licos") of Cilicia.
Under the Bishop-in-Jerusalem. At
the District Towns, for the Official
Community, etc.
The Reformed Presbyterians at Larnaca
and Nicosia.
No places of worship, attend either
! Church of England or Presbyterian.
| A settlement at Margo and a few
at Chomlekji and Kontea.
N O T E . — This Island is not adapted for Missionary W o r k as usually understood and in that sense there is practically
none, nor does any Denomination receive State Aid.
C A L E N D AR.
The undermentioned Calendar Years commence at the dates specified in the Gregorian Year 1928 :—
1. Ottoman Ecclesiastical, the Hejira, 1346 begins 25th June, 1928.
2. Ottoman Financial, 1344 begins U t h March, 1928.
#
3. Julian or " O l d Style," 1927 begins U t h January, 1928.*
4. Armenian Ecclesiastical, 1378 begins 24th August, 1928.
5. Armenian National, 4421 begins 16th August, 1928.
* N O T B . — The Angora Government has adopted the Western N e w Year's Day and the Greek-Orthodox Church baa
also adopted the *' N e w Style " except as regards Easter.