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According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, in 2012 there were 54,018 religious sisters in the U.S.

Strictly speaking, only those in monastic communities are nuns, though this term is popularly used for all women religious (monastics and mendicants), members of institutes of consecrated life, and of societies of apostolic life.

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