There are twelve patriarchs in the Christian world. The archbishops and bishops amount to six hundred and seventy-one. The vicars apostolic in different countries are fifty-seven in number, besides whom there are thirty-eight coadjutor-bishops, making the grand total of the Catholic episcopacy amount to seven hundred and sixty-six bishops. CATHOLIC PERIODICALS.—The _United States Catholic Miscellany_, published weekly in Charleston, S. C.; the _Catholic Telegraph_, published weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio; the _Catholic Herald_, published weekly in Philadelphia; the _Catholic Advocate_, published weekly in Bardstown, Ky.; _Der Wahrheit’s Freund_, (German paper,) published weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio; the _New York Catholic Register_, published weekly in the city of New York; _Ordo divini Officii recitandi_, _Missæque celebrandæ, juxta Rubricas Breviarii ac Missalis Romani_, published annually in Baltimore; the _Young Catholic’s Magazine_, enlarged series, published on the first of each month, in New York. ------------------------------------- At the time of the reformation, 1517, papal power, or the power of the pope of Rome, had acquired so great a spiritual dominion over the minds and consciences of men, that all Europe submitted to it with implicit obedience. At the present day, the Roman Catholic religion prevails, more or less, in every country in Christendom. Its population is stated to exceed eighty millions. It is the established religion of Austria, France, Portugal, and Spain, and of thirteen other states in Europe. Popes of Rome.(16) A. D.