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RETURN OF CHURCHES, CHAPELS, GRANTS. &c.
Denomination
Estimated total
namber ot
followers.
Number of
Churches
or Chapels.
Gross -mount
of Ai-ristance
to denomination
or mission from
Public Funds, tf an*-.
Remarks.
Autocephalous
Chnrch of
Cyprus
Chriscum Orthodox
Moslems
297.200
Maronites
Latins
Armenian
Gregorians
Church of England '
Presbyterians
Other Protestants
Jews
Unclassified
65,900
1,870
670
3,610
600
130
190
ro
80
660 Churches
11 Ccenobitical
Monasteries
84 non-Ccenobitical
Monasteries*
' 222 Mosques
10 Tekyes or
Convents of
Dervishes
3 Seminaries
11 Churches
4 Monasteries
3 Churches
6 Chapels
3 Convents
3 Monasteries
2 Churches
1 Chapel
1 Monastery
4 Churches
2 Church Rooms
- 1 Church
1 Church R o o m
This is the Church of the Island, the
second in Antiquity of Chri-tian
Churches.
'Mostly without resident priests. Served
once a year from the adjacent village.
The only other significant religiom
commonity.
Under the Archbishop of Syria.
Under the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Under the Armenian Patriarch (" Catho-
licos") of Cilicia.
Under the Bishop-in-Jernsalem. Situated
at the district towns, for the official
community, etc.
The Reformed Presbyterians at Laniaca
and Nicosia.
i
• N o places of worship; attend either
Church of England or Presbyterian.
Mostly ac Chomlekji and Kouklia.
N O T E . — This Island is not adapted for missionary work as usually understood and in that sense there is practically
none, nor does anv denomination n*<v>ir« State aid.
C A L E N D A R .
The undermentioned Calendar Years commenced at the dates of che Gregorian Year 1936 specified below-;—
1. M o h a m m e d a n Ecclesiastical, the Hejira, 1355 :—15_h April, 19S6.
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2. Turkish Financial, 1352 :—14th March, 1936.'
• 3. Julian or " Old Style," 1936 : — U t h January, 1936.*
4. Armenian Ecclesiastical, 1386 :—24th Augusc, 1936.
5. Armenian National, 4429 :—16th August, 1936.
* N O T E . — The Angora iJ-Vernnient has adopted the Western N e w Year's Day and the Greek-Orthodox Church has
also adopted che '* N e w Style " except as regards Easter aud the " movable feasts " dependent on it.