Are hard numbers available on the growth of the EF?

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I would love to know if there have been any reports on the growth of the use of the Vetus Ordo/EF worldwide since Summorum Pontificum and, even better, since the last 2 or so years.

I imagine hard numbers are more easily available for parishes, but I know of at least one or two very new religious orders dedicated to the Vetus Ordo.

Does anyone have ideas on how to find this out or got an article handy?
 
Q. There has been considerable growth in the TLM in the last 10 years in America. Can you give us a sense of how much growth there was before the Motu Proprio? After?
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Along with the increasing number of Sunday Masses, daily Mass is offered in 60 locations in the U.S. also. Approximately 1,000 priests have completed a formal training program for the traditional Latin Mass and a few seminaries in the U.S. are training their men in offering the Extraordinary Form. (Statistics courtesy of UVA affiliate, Coalition in Support of Ecclesia Dei)
After the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum, the number of Sunday Masses in the US almost doubled from 220 in 2006 to 420 today.
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reginamag.com/update-latin-mass-america-today/
 
You bet! There are others here who are far more knowledgeable about the EF than I, so you may still get even more extensive feedback.
 
I think it was mentioned in this subforum that in the diocese of Arlington, half of the priests there have said the TLM at least once.
 
According to CARA, there are 17,413 parishes in the United States. According to Regina Magazine, there are 420 EF Sunday Masses. That works out to about 2.4% of the parishes in the US with the EF.
 
Thanks for the link. Interesting article. What Bryron Smith says are exactly the reasons I’m drawn to the EF. Not that I think I’m more “intellectual” than anyone else, though. I just like extending myself through the type of Liturgy it provides us.
 
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