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The 2017 statistics collected by the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) show that the four largest Eastern Catholic Churches are the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with 4.5 million members (roughly 25% of all Eastern Catholics), the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with 4.3 million members (24%), the Maronite Church with 3.5 million ...
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- Eastern Christianity
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The Catholic Church operates tens of thousands of Catholic schools, universities and colleges, hospitals, and orphanages around the world, and is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world. [24] Among its other social services are numerous charitable and humanitarian organizations.
- 1.378 billion (2021)
According to the 2016 Official Catholic Directory, as of 2016 there were 243 seminaries with 4,785 students in the United States; 3,629 diocesan seminarians and 1,456 religious seminarians. By the official 2017 statistics, there are 5,050 seminarians (3,694 diocesan and 1,356 religious) in the United States.
- 16,429 (2022)
- Catholic
- 72,000,000+ (2020)
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Eastern Catholic Churches in the United States 2017 Source: Annuario Pontificio 2017.Compiled by Ronald G. Roberson, CSP Chaldeans, 250,000, 39% Syro-Malankaras (including
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The term Eastern Catholic Churches refers to 23 of the 24 autonomous particular Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome. They follow different Eastern Christian liturgical traditions: Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, Byzantine and Chaldean. [7] Canonically, each Eastern Catholic Church is sui iuris or autonomous with respect to other ...
