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THE

CATHOLIC WORLD.


Monthly Magazine

OF

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

VOL. III.

APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1866.

NEW YORK:

LAWRENCE KEHOE, PUBLISHER,

145 NASSAU STREET.

1866.

2-65 C363

660551

Army of the Potomac, Medical Recollections of, 854.

Biology, Spencer's Principles of, 425.

Blessed Virgin, Devotion to in North America, 574.
Biographical Dictionary, 574.

Books for Young People, 720.

Dictionary, Webster's, 143.

Draper's Text Books of Chemistry, etc., 576.
Darras' Church History, 719.

Eirenicon, Dr. Pusey's, 288.

Eugénie de Guérin, Letters of, $59.

English Language, Practical Grammar of, 860.

Faber's New Book, 287.

Froude's History of England, 718.

Grahams, The, 268,

Grant, Headley's Life of, 575.
Hughes, Archbishop, Life of, 140.
Holy Childhood, Report of, 578.
Headley's Life of Grant, 575.
Homes without Hands, 860.

Kennett, Story of, 481.

Keating's Ireland, 432.

THE

CATHOLIC WORLD.

VOL. III., NO. 13.-APRIL, 1866.

[ORIGINAL.]

THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.*

In the year 1841, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal dioceses of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, professing to speak in the name of their church in the United States, addressed the following language to the schismatical Patriarch of Constantinople, whom they style "the venerable and right reverend father in God the Patriarch of the Greek Church, resident at Constantinople :"

The church in the United States of America, therefore, looking to the triune God for his blessings upon its efforts for unity in the body of Christ, turn with hope to the Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual head of the ancient and venerable Oriental Church."

This is by no means the only instance of overtures of this kind, looking toward a union between Protestant Episcopalians and Eastern schismatics, with the view of concentrating

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the opposition to the Roman See under a rival Oriental primacy. The Non-jurors, who were ejected from their sees at the overthrow of the Stuarts, proposed to the Synod of Bethlehem to establish the primacy in the patriarchate of Jerusalem; but their proposal was met by a decidedly freezing refusal. The American bishops who signed the letter from which the foregoing extract is taken show a remarkable desire to bow down before some ecclesiastical power more ancient and venerable than themselves; and in their extreme eagerness to propitiate the Eastern prelates, they acknowledge without scruple the most arrogant titles usurped by the Patriarch of Constantinople, although from their want of familiarity with the ecclesiastical language, they do it in a very unusual and peculiar style. Whatever may be at present the particular views of those who are seeking to bring about a union between the Protestant Episcopal churches and the Easterns, in regard to the order of hierarchical organization, they are evidently disposed to pay court to the successor of Photius and Michael Cerularius, and to espouse

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