# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1896_S84
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84 Statistics of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*]. 1894 and 1895.

XII. Comparison of This Statistics with That of 1894.

 | 1894 | 1895 | Plus or minus
Synods | 5 | 5 | = | 
Congregations | 2240 | 2367 | + | 127
Preaching places | 753 | 686 | — | 67
Pastors | 1588 | 1679 | + | 91
Teachers (men) | 878 | 849 | — | 29
Teachers (women) | 143 | 137 | — | 6
Number of souls | 624228 | 668385 | + | 44157
Communicant members | 364503 | 370246 | + | 5743
Voting members | 106341 | 112670 | + | 6329
Schools | 1653 | 1714 | + | 61
Number of pupils | 92023 | *88788 | — | 3235
Baptized | 46292 | 43826 | — | 2466
Confirmed | 21698 | 22019 | + | 321
Communicants (communions) | 730583 | 762514 | + | 31931
Couples married | 9024 | 9422 | + | 398
Buried | 14609 | 14202 | — | 407
Mission stations (home mission) | 759 | 769 | + | 10
Missionaries (home mission) | 223 | 269 | + | 46
Missions (foreign mission) | 4 | 6 | + | 2
Mission stations (foreign mission) | 33 | 34 | + | 1
Missionaries (foreign mission) | 13 | 18 | + | 5
Charitable institutions | 16 | 17 | + | 1
Educational institutions | 19 | 17 | — | 2
Students | 1634 | 1557 | — | 77
Professors | 74 | 69 | — | 5
Periodicals | 26 | 32 | + | 6
New churches in each two years | 223 | 128 | — | 95
Moneys received in each two years | $448224.90 | $538155.43 | + | $89930.53
Mission festival collections in each two years | $69024.38 | $78283.94 | + | $9259.56

+ denotes plus or increase.
— denotes minus or decrease.
= means: unchanged.
* Michigan Synod and Wisconsin Synod not reported.