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There were 70,412,000 registered Catholics in the United States (22% of the US population) in 2017, according to the American bishops' count in their Official Catholic Directory 2016. [98] This count primarily rests on the parish assessment tax which priests evaluate yearly according to the number of registered members and contributors.
The Catholic population of the United States, which had been 35,000 in 1790, increased to 195,000 in 1820 and then ballooned to about 1.6 million in 1850, by which time Catholics had become the country's largest denomination.
All Protestant denominations accounted for 48.5% of the population, making Protestantism the most common form of Christianity in the country and the majority religion in general in the United States, while the Catholic Church by itself, at 22.7% of the population, is the largest individual denomination. [11]
The first percentage, 4th column, is the percentage of population that is Catholic in a region (number in the region x 100 / total population of the region). The last column shows the national Catholic percentage compared to the total Catholic population of the world (number in the region x 100 / total RC population of the world).
The United States has the world's largest Christian population. [68] [69] According to membership statistics from current reports and official web sites, the five largest Christian denominations are: The Catholic Church in the United States, 71,000,000 members [70] The Southern Baptist Convention, 13,680,493 members [71]
The institute has an office in the nation’s capital, and Busch is also a key player at Catholic University there. In 2016, his family gave $15 million, the largest donation in university history ...
Most immigration to the U.S. is from predominantly Roman Catholic nations and about 3 ⁄ 4 of all lapsed Catholics have been replaced by immigrant Catholics in the United States. [ 54 ] In 2006, Cardinal Roger Mahony announced that he would order the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to ignore H.R. 4437 if it were to become ...
When the work is completed on the new $21 million St. Charles Borromeo Church in Visalia later this year, the historic building will be the largest Catholic parish church in North America seating ...