This is related to the “question for Latin Catholics” thread below. I’ll note right here that I’m only bringing this up as I’m curious as to the answer, I’m not bringing it up for any purpose other than that.
With that caveat, if we took the total number of Christians with valid Sacraments. That is, we took the sum total of all those in communion with Rome, and all of those in the Orthodox churches who are not in communion with Rome, what would be the results as to the overall percentages. That is:
- What percentage of that total would be Roman Catholics.
- What percentage would be Eastern Rite Catholics (sorry, I’m lumping all the Eastern Rite Catholics together, but for purposes of this question, that’s what I’m doing. Author’s prerogative, I guess.
- What percentage would be Orthodox (again, I’m sorry but I’m lumping all the recognized Orthodox churches in here as one group).
Global
Latin Catholic 1,148,979,282 (2008)
Eastern Catholic 17,020,718 (2008)
Polish National Catholic 25,000 (2009)
Eastern Orthodox 217,948,000 (1995)
Oriental Orthodox 36,000,000 (1999)
Assyrian Church of the East 323,300 (1999)
They are not for the same year, so inaccurate:
Latin Catholic 1,148,979,282 80.90%
Eastern Orthodox 217,948,000 15.35%
Oriental Orthodox 36,000,000 2.53%
Eastern Catholic 17,020,718 1.20%
Assyrian Church 323,300 0.02%
Polish N Catholic 25,000 0.00%
Total 1,420,271,300 100.00%
adherents.com/
oikoumene.org/gr/member-churches.html
In 2008, 1.166 billion baptized Catholics total.
Annuario Pontifico 2008 statistics show 17,020,718 Eastern Catholics.
98.54 % Latin Church sui iuris
1.46 % Eastern Churches sui iuris
Breakdown of Eastern Catholics:
4,284,082 Ukrainian *
3,947,396 Syro-Malabar #
3,090,509 Maronite %
1,598,304 Melkite *
776,529 Romanian *
646,569 Ruthenian *
539,806 Armenian @
452,488 Chaldean #
413,513 Syro-Malankara %
290,000 Hungarian *
246,060 Slovak *
208,093 Ethiopian/Eritrean $
163,849 Coptic $
161,780 Syrian %
– Balkans under 100,000 each —
61,598 Italo-Albanian *
44,042 Krizevci (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia-Kosovo and Montenegro) *
15,175 Macedonia *
10,000 Bulgarian *
3,600 Albanian *
2,325 Greek *
65,000 Eastern Rite without proper Ordinary (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, France, Poland)
- Byzantine (Ukrainian, Melkite, Romanian, Ruthenian, …)
Chaldean (Syro-Malabar, Chaldean)
% Antiochian (Maronite, Syro-Malankara, Syrian)
@ Armenian (Armenian)
$ Alexandrian (Coptic, Ethiopian/Eritrean)
