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Little_Boy_Lost
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I read somewhere that for Byzantine Rite Churches in the US, the parish family size is between 20 and 50 on average for stats around 2000, and about 800 - 900 for the same year 2000. I didn’t find stats on non-Byzantine eastern catholic parishes. Family size is counted as four persons per household.
I read somewhere else online that a 2010 stat update showed the average Roman Catholic parish size now up to 1,100 families. Have the Eastern Catholic parishes grown? Shrunk? Stayed the same? What accounts for the increase of household size in Roman parishes? Immigration from mexico?
As a side note to this, I was debating with a friend, how to encourage participation in the parish and create a community. I suggested there be more Roman Catholic parishes so their family size would be smaller and theoretically that would mean less liturgies and hopefully more interaction. But I don’t think it should stop there. However, the point of contention was whether to create more parishes causing some towns to have 2 or 3 parishes, or working with these monster parishes and finding ways to reclaim that fellowship.
I read somewhere else online that a 2010 stat update showed the average Roman Catholic parish size now up to 1,100 families. Have the Eastern Catholic parishes grown? Shrunk? Stayed the same? What accounts for the increase of household size in Roman parishes? Immigration from mexico?
As a side note to this, I was debating with a friend, how to encourage participation in the parish and create a community. I suggested there be more Roman Catholic parishes so their family size would be smaller and theoretically that would mean less liturgies and hopefully more interaction. But I don’t think it should stop there. However, the point of contention was whether to create more parishes causing some towns to have 2 or 3 parishes, or working with these monster parishes and finding ways to reclaim that fellowship.