How many Catholics are there in the US?

Answer 1

There are between 1.2 and 1.3 billion Catholics in the world.
There are about 1.2 to 1.3 billion Catholics in the world as of 2011. It is the Catholic Church, not the Roman Catholic Church. "Roman" was a slang term first used in England after the protestant revolt to denote the Christian Church.

Answer 2

there are more protestants in America

• Protestant (51.3%)
• Roman Catholic (23.9%)

The Hispanics/Latinos, Irish, Italians, polish, French, Spanish, Hungarians and Lebanese brought Catholicism, while Northern European peoples introduced Protestantism. Among Protestants, adherents to Anglicanism, Baptism, Calvinism, Puritanism, Presbyterianism, Lutheranism, Quakerism, Amish and Moravian Church were the first to settle to the US spreading their faith in the new country. Greek, Russian, Central and Eastern European, and Middle Eastern immigrants brought Eastern Orthodoxy to the United States. These branches of Christianity have since spread beyond the boundaries of ethnic immigrant communities and now include multi-ethnic membership and parishes.

but protestants are decreasing in America and religions such as judaism and catholicism are growing due to Hispanics/latinos , Irish and coversions.

Answer 3

According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, the US population of Catholics is

1965 = 45,600,000

1975 = 48,700,000

1985 = 52,300,000

1995 = 57,400,000

2000 = 59,900,000

2005 = 64,800,000

2010 = 65,600,000
Millions of catholics

Answer 4

About 68 million Americans belong to the Catholic Church, about 22% of the U.S. population.

Most of these (67.5 million) are Latin rite Catholic, but about half a million are Eastern Catholic.

Answer 5

As of 2012, the Catholic Directory is listing 66, 300,000 as the Catholic population in the United States, however, according to a survey, self-identified Catholics come to 78.2 million. From the official Catholic Directory published in the United States (in millions):Catholic population (The Official Catholic Directory)1965

45.6m1975

48.7m1985

52.3m1995

57.4m2000

59.9m2005

64.8m2012

66.3m

Answer 6

According to the CIA website, Catholics make up approximately 24.5% of the Christian population in the US. So, that is quite a big number...we, for sure, are the largest group of the peoples professing to be Christian.

Answer 7

According to the 2010 data from the Pew Research Center, there are about 75,380, 000 Catholics in the United States of America.

With more than 77 million faithful, it is the largest single religious group in the USA, comprising 25 percent of the population. The US has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world.

The clergy includes 454 bishops, over 41,406 priests, over 17,000 permanent deacons. We also have over 63,032 religious sisters, 5,040 religious brothers, and 5,029 seminarians.

We have over 30,000 lay ministers, and over one million employees.

Answer 8

About 22 percent of the population of the U.S. is Catholic, the largest denomination in the country.

Answer 9

There are approximately 64,400,000 (64 Million, four hundred thousand)