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Toggle List of Pakistani priests subsection. 1.1 A. 1.2 B. 1.3 C. 1.4 D. 1.5 ... English. Read; Edit; View history ... who are citizens or permanent residents of ...
Pakistan Bible Society – In 2013 Pakistan Post issued a commemorative postage stamp on the 150th anniversary of the Pakistan Bible Society. [ 40 ] Sister Mary Langan RJM, an Irish nun working in Pakistan since 1983, in 2013 was awarded the Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam by the Government of Pakistan for her services in the field of education.
In 2008 it was treating 60,000 patients a year. [11] Lahore archdiocese had 511,226 Catholics, 30 diocesan priests, and 214 nuns, according to the 2001 Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican yearbook. [12] The largest Catholic archdiocese in Pakistan is divided into 26 parishes. [13] The archdiocese is also home to the St. Francis Xavier Seminary. [14]
The Golden Jubilee of the diocese was celebrated on 23 August 2007; it had 15 priests serving an estimated 50,000 Catholics. The diocese has 45 educational institutes. Father John Murad was the Vicar General of the diocese in 2007.
An English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 14–15 April 1912. He was reported as being amidst the throng of trapped passengers on the ship's rear deck in its final moments of descent, audibly praying.
The Catholic Board of Education is the arm of the Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan responsible for education. [1] Each diocese has its own board. Collectively the Catholic Church runs 534 schools, 8 colleges, and 7 technical institutes in its 2 archdioceses, 4 dioceses, and one Apostolic Prefecture.
This section concerns the priest who in the 1983 Code of Canon Law is referred to by the term parochus, which in some English-speaking countries is rendered as "the parish priest", in others as "the pastor". The English term "pastor" is also used in a more generic sense corresponding instead to the Latin term pastor:
With the Catholic population increasing steadily [9] and the number of priests declining, the number of laypeople per priest has climbed from 875:1 in 1981 to 1,113:1 in 1991, 1,429:1 in 2001 and 2,000:1 in 2012 (a 130 percent increase). The declining number of priests in parish ministry is producing a marked increase in the number of ...