# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1898_S75
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Statistics of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference. 1896 and 1897. 75

XII. Comparison of This Statistics with That of 1896.

 | 1896 | 1897 | Plus or minus.
Synods | 5 | 5 | =
Congregations | 2367 | 2302 | — 65
Preaching places | 686 | 760 | + 74
Pastors | 1679 | 1869 | + 190
Teachers | 849 | 881 | + 32
Women teachers | 137 | 187 | + 50
Number of souls | 668385 | 694609 | + 26224
Communicant members | 370246 | 392651 | + 22405
Voting members | 112670 | 118215 | + 5545
Schools | 1714 | 1866 | + 152
Number of pupils | 88788 | 91656 | + 2868
Baptized | 43826 | 44186 | + 360
Confirmed | 22019 | 24555 | + 2536
Communicants | 762514 | 814692 | + 52178
Couples married | 9422 | 9440 | + 18
Buried | 14202 | 12988 | — 1214
Mission stations (home mission) | 769 | 855 | + 86
Missionaries (home mission) | 269 | 230 | — 39
Missions (foreign mission) | 6 | 7 | + 1
Mission stations (foreign mission) | 34 | 61 | + 27
Missionaries (foreign mission) | 18 | 23 | + 5
Charitable institutions | 17 | 22 | + 5
Educational institutions | 17 | 17 | =
Students | 1557 | 1589 | + 32
Professors | 69 | 71 | + 2
New churches in each 2 years | 128 | 178 | + 50
Money received in each 2 years | $538155.43 | $481290.12 | — $56865.31
Mission festival collections in each 2 years | $78283.94 | $78696.46 | + $412.52

+ denotes plus or increase.
— denotes minus or decrease.
= means: unchanged.