State of the Church Diocese by Diocese

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“Crisis” magazine has an interesting article this monthy on the state of the church diocese by diocese. It is quite interesting. It was based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, increase in active priests; most ordinations; most adult receptions. The top rated diocese was the Diocese of Knoxville, TN. The article is by Rev. Rodger Hunter-Hall, former assistant editor of the magazine, and Steven Wagner, President of QEV Analytics, an opinion research firm.
 
Thanks for posting this, it is very interesting. However, I do notice one mistake in the article. It says that there were no ordinations in the Galveston-Houston diocese in 2005, but that is incorrect. I only know this because I was there. My friend was ordained; he was the only one though.
 
Thank you very much for the link! I hope this gets more discussion.
 
Sadly my Diocese (Rockville Centre, NY) is at the bottom. Hopefully the changes the Bishop has implemented will have a positive effect.
 
One statistics that I think they should have taken in to consideration is the rate of Mass attendance in each dioceses. I think this is a critical statistic even though it is only assessed once a year.
 
Are the links actually working for some of you? I get a blank Crisis Magazine page with the date of June 19, 2006. I went to the home page and clicked on the article, but it links to the same bogus page. Too bad, because I would really like to know what it says…
 
rlg94086 said:
Are the links actually working for some of you? I get a blank Crisis Magazine page with the date of June 19, 2006. I went to the home page and clicked on the article, but it links to the same bogus page. Too bad, because I would really like to know what it says…
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I think it opens in a pdf file. Do you have Adobe Acrobat installed?
 
LRThunder said:
I think it opens in a pdf file. Do you have Adobe Acrobat installed?
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Yep. The full version of Acrobat and the latest version of Windows XP.

I just tried it on my Apple, as well - same screen, so it isn’t a Windows-only problem.

Are you saying the link works for you?
 
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Yep. The full version of Acrobat and the latest version of Windows XP.

I just tried it on my Apple, as well - same screen, so it isn’t a Windows-only problem.

Are you saying the link works for you?
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I tried opening it the first time, but it didn’t work. Then it worked when I tried a second time.
 
mary_bobo said:
“Crisis” magazine has an interesting article this monthy on the state of the church diocese by diocese. It is quite interesting. It was based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, increase in active priests; most ordinations; most adult receptions. The top rated diocese was the Diocese of Knoxville, TN. The article is by Rev. Rodger Hunter-Hall, former assistant editor of the magazine, and Steven Wagner, President of QEV Analytics, an opinion research firm.
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My diocese, Albany, NY ranks near the bottom.
Then I noticed the article say size has a negative impact. According to the author, “as size increases, vitality deteriorates”. Albany has a Catholic population of 400K. Hmmm . . .
 
didymus said:
My diocese, Albany, NY ranks near the bottom.
Then I noticed the article say size has a negative impact. According to the author, “as size increases, vitality deteriorates”. Albany has a Catholic population of 400K. Hmmm . . .
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Which probably explains the number of archdiocese in the lower half…

Kalamazoo, MI is a fairly small diocese on Lake Michigan, and they are near the top.
 
20 Highest-Ranked Dioceses Overall
1 Knoxville (TN) 8 10 10
2 Savannah (GA) 14 2 24
3 Kalamazoo (MI) 24 9 20
4 Alexandria (LA) 30 5 54
5 Pens.–Tall. (FL) 49 16 35
6 Santa Fe (NM) * 19 50 36
7 Birmingham (AL) 20 69 17
8 Wheel.–Charles. (WV) 60 26 22
8 Anchorage (AK) * 30 3 75
10 Biloxi (MS) 55 50 5
10 Lansing (MI) 45 21 44
12 Lubbock (TX) 30 33 49
13 Little Rock (AR) 67 30 16
14 Cheyenne (WY) 73 15 26
15 Colorado Springs (CO) 9 34 76
16 Denver (CO) * 28 14 80
16 Venice (FL) 4 29 89
18 Beaumont (TX) 64 4 65
19 Lexington (KY) 89 40 8
19 Charlotte (NC) 13 87 37

20 Lowest-Ranked Dioceses Overall
157 Burlington (VT) 162 85 143
158 Winona (MN) 142 129 120
159 Dubuque (IA) * 151 119 122
160 Boston (MA) * 156 73 164
161 Crosse (WI) 138 129 130
162 Milwaukee (WI) * 155 95 150
162 Providence (RI) 103 125 172
164 Philadelphia ¶ * 129 111 161
164 Green Bay (WI) 168 71 162
166 Marquette (MI) 169 129 105
167 Camden (NJ) 176 124 107
168 El Paso (TX) 111 129 169
169 Allentown ¶ 132 103 176
170 Madison (WI) 131 129 153
171 Pittsburgh ¶ 140 122 152
172 Albany (NY) 174 89 158
173 Metuchen (NJ) 125 129 171
174 Rochester (NY) 173 115 142
175 Rockville Centre (NY) 148 126 173
176 Hartford (CT) * 165 129 165
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My diocese (Metuchen) ranks near the bottom (#173)… 😦

Perhaps it is time to divide the Northeast dioceses up into much smaller ones so that the bishops can have an easier time ministering to their flocks.

And maybe a little more orthodoxy wouldn’t hurt either.😉
 
Yes, mine (Burlington, VT) looks pretty low now, but the stats were 2005. I can tell you that there have been some pretty major changes in the last 2 years, changes for the better, wonderful changes from our Bishop Matano (God bless him!). Burlington is small enough to change as much for the positive as it had for the negative.
 
WOW! It’s shocking that my diocese, the Diocese of San Bernardino, Ca. has almost 13,500 faithful adherents per priest.

Let us pray…

0 Jesus, Good and Gentle Shepherd, grant that the men and women from our community may have the grace and the courage to hear and answer Your call to priesthood and religious life. Give them the wisdom to realize that life is a gift. Let them realize their life is part of YOUR plan. Call forth those You have chosen to spread the gospel message, and help them to freely respond to a life of service in the Church. May the parents and families of our parish, and all parishes, support and encourage our young men and women to search for, follow, and answer the call of God in their lives. AMEN
 
irishmac said:
WOW! It’s shocking that my diocese, the Diocese of San Bernardino, Ca. has almost 13,500 faithful adherents per priest.

Let us pray…

0 Jesus, Good and Gentle Shepherd, grant that the men and women from our community may have the grace and the courage to hear and answer Your call to priesthood and religious life. Give them the wisdom to realize that life is a gift. Let them realize their life is part of YOUR plan. Call forth those You have chosen to spread the gospel message, and help them to freely respond to a life of service in the Church. May the parents and families of our parish, and all parishes, support and encourage our young men and women to search for, follow, and answer the call of God in their lives. AMEN
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AMEN! :gopray2:
 
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