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Dear friends
Thought you might find this interesting:
vocation.com/content-f5z.htm
taken from the above website:
**Dear ****, **
**I was trying to get the most recent numbers on this for you, and all I could come up with were the final numbers for 1997. They are interesting so I’ll give you a little more than you asked for: **
**There are 1,005,254,000 (just over a billion)) Catholics in the world now. 49.32% of them are in America, 28.18% in Europe, 11.23% in Africa, 10.47% in Asia, and .8% in Oceania. **
**There are 404,000 priests (of whom 140,000 are religious priests), 819,000 nuns, and 58,000 male religious. **
**There are 108,517 seminarians worldwide (up 69% from 20 yrs ago), a third of them in the Americas. **
God bless.
I wonder how many there will be in years to come?
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa
Thought you might find this interesting:
vocation.com/content-f5z.htm
taken from the above website:
**Dear ****, **
**I was trying to get the most recent numbers on this for you, and all I could come up with were the final numbers for 1997. They are interesting so I’ll give you a little more than you asked for: **
**There are 1,005,254,000 (just over a billion)) Catholics in the world now. 49.32% of them are in America, 28.18% in Europe, 11.23% in Africa, 10.47% in Asia, and .8% in Oceania. **
**There are 404,000 priests (of whom 140,000 are religious priests), 819,000 nuns, and 58,000 male religious. **
**There are 108,517 seminarians worldwide (up 69% from 20 yrs ago), a third of them in the Americas. **
God bless.
I wonder how many there will be in years to come?
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa