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Roman Catholic Missions in China

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 24, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 20.

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Roman Catholic Missions in China

THE Roman Catholic Register of Hongkong, gives the following statistics of Roman Catholic missions in the empire: Bishops, 41; European priests, 664; native priests, 559; colleges, 34; convents, 34; Catholics, 1,092,818. Certain Catholic authorities assert that their missionaries do not propagate the faith in China as ardently as in the former century, and that the number of adherents is on the decline.