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Catholic AnswerFrom an Catholic News Service Article about the Pontifical Yearbook, these statistics are for the year ending 2010, the three quotes below reflect the number of deacons, priests and bishops worldwide. They are the three orders of Catholic clergy:The number of permanent deacons reported -- 39,564 -- was an increase of more than 1,400 over the previous year. 97.5 percent of the world's permanent deacons live in the Americas or in Europe.
Of the 410,593 priests in the world reported at the end of 2009, the Vatican said 275,542 were diocesan priests and 135,051 were members of religious orders. Ten years earlier, there were only 265,012 diocesan priests, but there were 139,997 religious order priests, the Vatican said.
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The Vatican said the number of bishops in the world increased from 5,065 to 5,104; the number of priests went from 410,593 to 412,236, increasing everywhere except Europe.
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∙ 13y agoThe statistics also show modest increases in the number of priests (0.21%) and seminarians (an overall rise of 0.9%). There were 407,242 Catholic priests in the world at the close of 2006, and 115,480 seminarians.
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∙ 14y ago1.1 billion Catholics worldwide, 17.3 percent of the world population.
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∙ 14y agoabout 41,406 diocesan and religious-order priests in the United States
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The Laity.
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