IN AMERICA. Archbishops. Bishops. North-- English Possessions 1 5 United States 1 23 Mexico 1 10 Central America 1 4 West Indies 1 2 South-- United States of the South 1 8 Venezuela 1 2 Bolivia 1 2 Peru 1 4 Chili 1 4 Paraguay - 1 Plata 1 3 Brazil 1 7 _Vicars Apostolic._ English Possessions - 2 Texas - 1 Antilles - 3 Hayti - 1 Guiana - 2 ___ ___ Total in America 12 84 TOTAL. Patriarchs. Archbishops. Bishops. In Europe - 102 498 In Asia 5 20 49 In Africa - - 7 In Australasia - 1 8 In America - 12 84 ___ ___ ___ 5 135 646 Here, then, is one spiritual empire, stretching over all the continents of the earth, entering into so many various nations utterly different in manners, language, origin and temper. This empire, though outnumbered in some few of these nations by other Christian Communions, yet has no one other set over against it, equally wide-spread, united, and claiming like it universality. And its functions, though necessarily exercised in this world, sometimes in friendship with, sometimes in opposition to, the civil power, have to do exclusively with man's relations to the unseen world. So that it is strictly in this aspect a "kingdom of heaven" on earth, whose several members hold together by their common union with one chief.