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Worldwide, the number of priests in 1970 was 419,728. In 2017, there were a total of 414,582 priests. While the total number of priests worldwide has therefore remained relatively stable since 1970, the Catholic population has nearly doubled, growing from 653.6 million in 1970 to 1.229 billion in 2012. [2]
Since 1970, the number of Catholic priests in the world has decreased by about 5,000, to 414,313 priests as of 2012. [16] but the worldwide Catholic population has nearly doubled, growing from 653.6 million in 1970 to 1.229 billion in 2012. [16] This has resulted in a worldwide shortage of Catholic priests.
In 1785, the estimated number of Catholics was at 25,000; 15,800 in Maryland, 7,000 in Pennsylvania and 1,500 in New York. [14] There were only 25 priests serving the faithful. This was less than 2% of the total population in the Thirteen Colonies. [14]
The number of alleged abusers peaked in the 1960s as over 25% of all accused priests were ordained between 1960 and 1969; another 20% of all accused clerics were ordained during the 1970s. But the number of accused tumbled precipitously to only 8% of priests ordained in the 1980s, and a mere 2% of all alleged abusers were ordained after 1990. [96]
A Bulgarian Catholic priest, Capuchin friar and Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv. Vladimir Sergeyvich Pecherin: 27 June 1807 – 28 April 1885 Russian nihilist, Romantic poet, and Classicist, who later became a Roman Catholic priest in 19th-century Ireland. Walter Joseph Ciszek: November 4, 1904 – December 8 ...
Catholic religious orders began as early as the 500s, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in 529. The earliest orders include the Cistercians (1098), the Premonstratensians (1120), the Poor Clares founded by Francis of Assisi (1212), and the Benedictine reform movements of Cluny (1216).
A post shared on X claims that former Communist Party member and Catholic convert Bella Dodd said that 1,100 communists became Catholic priests. Verdict: Unsubstantiated Dodd said that she never ...
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).