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Present * State of Religion ih fe eland . : f % M * i Sir . G . S . Mackenzie ' s Travels \ h I&Und . 4 to . pp . 3 ^ 4—333 . ] The refoiTtija tiOn of religion in Iceland took place A . D . 1551 ; siifefe which period the doctrines of thfc Lutheran church , as it exists
ih- " "ttoe r ' it&r&ern kingdoms of Eur ^ , bve been Strictly maintain - ed ^ fn the inland . At the ' present ttrtie , not a single dissentient i& fco bfc found from the established '
religion of the country ; and the only inst&rice of the kind on ret dtirav i $ <* tte which occurred arbout tfifeerid of the t ^ th cefttafy ; token HfeLGo Ei 6 lfii > as , < r Trtfim wAo
4 ila acquired muck knowledge of ( r ^ fwiaii li terature ^ espoused the $ dtinian doctrines * twd taught tftfan optnly to hig children - and f&iend $ j ! titl compelled by the judgment of the ecclesiastical court to
fH&kc a public renunciation 6 f his bkM ^ fi l > 6 ctri na t discussion is of od&rse little known &moh % the Itefeha ^ rs ; and tfje ^ contests which K&te ekisted in their church r relate
iSiiyftjr to external ordinances , and to the situntion and rights of the clergy of the island . The religious establishment of Iceland is formed on a more
exteilsive fecale , th 4 n might have been expected from the nature of the country and the condition of tilt people . Ttte inhabited parts of the island are divided Into 184
parishes ; a division which gives to > each parish an average population df about 260 persons . Fit > m the grfeat extehU however . * Pitop * districts * it iias tim fn tofey instfrnces found" qeee& ^ rV tif evermore thaa one church
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pansh- ; and the total number of churches in , the island somewhat exceeds three hundred . The duty of each parish devolves upoa a single priest j with the-peraussion , however , ifbis own cirenmr
stances do not allow the full discharge of his dsttfes , to take an assistant from among the young men educated for the chuirch , who have not yet obtained a per * marrent situation m life . Tim
number of the officiating raioisters of religion is of course various , at ; diflfer € ^ ttime ^ , though never great * tf exceeding < hat-of the parishes . Immediately superior tr > the com . mon priest 5 r are the provosts * or
de&cons , whose office it W to exercise a general superintendence over the churches in each Sys $ el * y and who- are chosen , in general ^ from a regard to their talent ^ and respectability of character . Tjiere ate nineteen of these deacons in
the island ; but their nuiaajber i ^ included among that of the priests , just ttientioned , as they severally have parishes allotted ta them ol whieh they discharge all the ordi *
nary duties * A small additional stipend is attached to the ofiRce , which reuders their sdtua , tioa somewhat superior to that of the oth ? r clergy .
During a period © f seven cen ^ . turie » IeelUnd was divided into two bishopiricks ; that of Stcalholt 9 comprehending the southern , that of Hool&m t \\ e narthera , districts of the island * The » ees becoming vacant at the same tirae they iJVr ^ , , ^^—L , , — , > >> - » • * StyssO—* term app ^ ied to the « ubdirkiws ( rf-bXccteid .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/9/
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