If an English-speaking 100% Roman Catholic country was established what would be its population?

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By English speaking I mean native English such as that from North America, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia etc. If all these people were moved to one country how big a population size would it be?

In a hypothetical scenario where would the best place be for this new country?
 
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Malta is like 98% Catholic, it has an English-speaking majority, though they also speak Maltese
 
I mean English is not a native language to Malta, but it’s not a native language to South Africa or the United States either, however most Maltese people learn English from childhood onwards
 
No, it’s generally how conversation works. When you ask a question, people answer. And it goes back and forth.

Clearly, that’s not actually what you are interested in, so I shall bow out.

If you were just interested in a fact report, then it’s 41 million people.
 
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When your imaginative state of mind returns feel free to join in…
 
I reckon it would be the population of England before the Protestant Reformation.

Although there were some Jewish people in England, probably. And maybe a few stubborn pagans.
 
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USA has 70-100 million Catholics. You could probably figure out how many of those speak English as their native language, but I am not sure why.
 
Ok let us say that USA has around 35 million native English speaking Catholics (excluding Hispanics and other ethnic groups). What about Canada? I read it has somewhere in the region of 13 million Catholics but many of these will be French speaking I assume (Quebec)? I would therefore guess perhaps around 6 million native English speaking Catholic Canadians?
 
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Just to determine approximately how many native English speaking Catholics exist today.
 
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How many in Ireland(%) today speak both English and Irish as native languages? In any case it regarded as an English speaking country by most people. All credit to them to try to keep their old language going though.
 
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Ok here is the tally so far;
USA. ~35 million
Canada. ~ 6 million
UK (including Northern Ireland)~ 6 million
Ireland ~3.5 million
Malta ~0.5 million
Australia ~4 million
New Zealand ~ 0.5 million
South Africa ~ 0.5 million

Which gives an approximate total of 56 million! Still quite a small proportion of the total number of Catholics worldwide (over 1 billion).
 
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Catholic Church by Country

USA 72-100 million
Canada 13.8 m
UK 5.7 m
Ireland 3.7 m
South Africa 2.8 m
New Zealand .5 m
Australia 5.3 m
India 11-19 m (.5 m are Malankara Catholics)
Kenya 9.6 m
Uganda 16 m
Nigeria 19 m

I do not know if this is helpful. You can adjust as you like.
 
Yeah, I would be fine with living in a country with all Catholics (the world has had such countries in the past), but I don’t like the idea that they all speak English. I would prefer to live in a country where most people were multilingual, including myself being more multilingual than I am.
 
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Krisdun said:
How many in Ireland(%) today speak both English and Irish as native languages? In any case it regarded as an English speaking country by most people. All credit to them to try to keep their old language going though.
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I would gently suggest that you perhaps just drop this train of thought because it is a thorny subject for many Irish Catholics and descendants of Irish Catholics. I am presuming you yourself do not have much Irish ancestry or you would not have phrased it in the way you did.
Ireland is officially a bilingual country, in any event, so how you or anyone else outside the country regards it is of little consequence.
 
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If we had a 100% Catholic country anywhere, a huge percentage would be “cultural Catholics” at best. As demonstrated many times throughout history, such as in France and Italy.
 
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