Many Protestant churches allow clergy and communicants to take mustum instead of wine. By 1914, Protestant churches founded by American missionaries had 47,000 communicants, served by 282 missionaries. The denomination had 30,759 members of whom are 22,493 communicants, served by 534 ministers. The parish had 158 communicants in 1548. Stoddard's change in the sacraments produced little increase in the number of communicants. He is the patron saint of altar servers and first communicants. They are devotion used by communicants in the Lutheran Churches. In 1547 there were 120 (adult or teenage) communicants in the parish. Non-Georgian Orthodox Churches generally use the language of their communicants. It was accepted as a self-supporting parish with 263 communicants in January 1953. About 12,000 persons, 125 waggons, 8 carriages, 900 communicants, 300 were struck. The still segregated church records noted 5,391 white and 1,029 black communicants. Among the first listed communicants of the new church were Garret and Jan Schenck. Exact numbers of communicants are uncertain, given the illegal status of Catholicism. The church reported that it had served 143,895 communicants.