With 5,037 diocesan and 2, 298 religious, the total number of Catholic priests in the Philippines is 7, 335.
Source: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/sc1.html
More than 80 per cent of the Philippines' estimated 90 million population are Catholic. Most of these would be "true" church-going, die-hard Catholics as one of the largest peaceful gatherings in the world and the largest gathering of youth ever, 5 million people for the 1995 WYD, gathered in Manila.
From the list of living cardinals in Wikipedia, there are three living cardinals in the Philippines. From the official page of bishops in the Philippines, there are also three cardinals in the Philippines.
See link below for their names and ages:
From Wikipedia:
With 75.5 million members in 2011, it is the predominant religion, making the Philippines the country with the third largest number of Catholic citizens in the world after Brazil and Mexico. It is also one of the two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia (the other being East Timor).
The latest figures from the CIA Factbook (2011) report that 81.06 % of the residents of the Philippines report themselves to be Catholics for a total of 74,849,063. How many of those actually attend Mass each week and regular confession is not available.
It is estimated that more than 85 percent of the people are Catholic.
They are about 75,594,148 in the latest statistics.
The latest estimates (2011) have the Catholic population in the Philippines at about 80% or 75.88 million.
If you mean priests, no. There are no female Catholic priests
None, Catholic priests are Christian priests.
Society of Catholic Priests was created in 1994.
No. Catholic priests do not get married.
TOR is not an Order of priests, it stands for Third Order Regular, a branch of the Franciscans, many of whom are priests.
In the Catholic Church, priests are celibate, therefore this question does not apply to the Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic AnswerNone, there would be no criminals who would be practicing priests. If a priest is convicted of a crime, the usual course would be for the Church to laicize him.
Roman Catholic AnswerAccording to the most recent statistics (I am writing this in early 2011) there were 19,040 priests in India, see graph below.
yes there are catholic and Buddhist priests.
Yes, their are catholic priests in India.
There were 137 priests, religious and diocesian in Singapore Archdiocese in 2004, see the link below:
Yes Catholic priests are more then christian pastors.