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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.
Judaism is the second-largest religion in the US, practiced by 1.9% of the population, followed by Islam with 0.9% of population, and Hinduism, Buddhism, with 0.7% of the population. [12] States vary in religiosity from Mississippi , where 63% of adults self-describe as very religious, to New Hampshire where only 20% do. [ 13 ]
However, this rate of growth is slower than the overall population growth over the same time period. [1] In 2020, Pew estimated the number of Christians worldwide to be around 2.38 billion. [2] According to various scholars and sources, high birth rates and conversions in the Global South were cited as the reasons for the Christian population ...
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 ...
Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany – 0.02 million [327] [328] Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands – 0.01 million [329] Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland – 0.01 million [330] Old Catholic Church of Austria – 0.005 million [331] Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic – 0.003 million [332] Union of Scranton ...