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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. [97] 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.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., is the largest Catholic church in the United States. While Catholic Americans were present in small numbers early in United States history, both in Maryland and in the former French and Spanish colonies that were eventually absorbed into the United States, the ...
Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany – 0.02 million [328] [329] Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands – 0.01 million [330] Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland – 0.01 million [331] Old Catholic Church of Austria – 0.005 million [332] Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic – 0.003 million [333] Union of Scranton ...
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).
Even as the U.S. Catholic population has jumped to more than 70 million, driven in part by immigration from Latin America, ever-fewer Catholics are involved in the church’s most important rites.
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 ...
Hennessy, James American Catholics: A history of the Roman Catholic community in the United States (1981) Hunt, Thomas C., Ellis A. Joseph, and Ronald James Nuzzi. Catholic schools in the United States: An encyclopedia (2 vol, 2004). vol 2 online; Lazerson, Marvin (1977). "Understanding American Catholic Educational History".