{"id":27727,"date":"2013-05-15T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-church-by-the-numbers-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:09:21","slug":"the-church-by-the-numbers-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-church-by-the-numbers-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church by the numbers 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On 13 May 2013, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone<\/a>, SDB, the Secretary of State and Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the assistant in the same office, presented the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae<\/i> (the Church’s Statistical Yearbook) to Pope Francis and the rest of the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n


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This annual publication is official document outlining ever imaginable stat one would want to know, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The statistical information in the Church Yearbook refers to <\/span>the year 2011<\/b> which details the Catholic Church in the 2,979 ecclesiastical circumscriptions. That is, the dioceses and other administrations of the Church around the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As already known, the Church is diminishing in Europe and growing in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n

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General statistics:<\/i><\/p>\n

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