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The Holy Spirit Study Centre in Hong Kong, which monitors the number of Chinese Catholic members, estimated in 2012 that there were 12 million Catholics in both branches of the Catholic Church. [47] In 2017 Hebei Province had the largest Catholic Christian population in China, with 1 million Church members according to the local government. [48]
As of 2012 in China Catholicism has 6,300 churches, 116 active dioceses of which 97 under the Catholic Patriotic Church, 74 Chinese Patriotic bishops and 40 Catholic unofficial bishops, 2,150 Chinese Patriotic priests and 1,500 Catholic priests, 22 major and minor Chinese Patriotic seminaries and 10 Catholic unofficial seminaries. [96]
Italy. The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%, followed by East Timor at 97%. According to the Census of the 2023 Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook), the number of baptized Catholics in the world was about 1.376 billion at the end of 2021.
August 27, 2024 at 8:08 AM. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -China's government has recognized the authority of the Catholic bishop of Tianjin, Melchior Shi Hongzhen, the Vatican said on Tuesday, who had ...
The head of the Catholic church in China began a trip to Hong Kong on Tuesday at the invitation of the city’s pope-appointed Roman Catholic cardinal, marking the first official visit by a ...
Map of (Roman-rite) Catholic Dioceses in China (PRC) as of February 2024. The Catholic Church in Greater China comprises 152 Latin jurisdictions: 21 ecclesiastical provinces (including one for Taiwan), consisting of 21 metropolitan archdioceses and 101 suffragan dioceses; 28 apostolic prefectures; 1 exempt diocese, the Diocese of Macau
The full quote for affiliation on page 3 (google translate) is "Albanian Muslims are 56.70%, 10.03% Catholics, 6.75% Orthodox, 2.09% Bektashi, 0.14% evangelicals. 5.49% other and 2.5% atheists. The number of those who preferred not to answer this question is 13.79% of the total population". ^ "Algeria".
See Catholic Church in China#Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Lost territory twice: in 1313 to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Citong 刺桐 and in 1320 to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ili-baluc. 1375: Suppressed; Restored on April 10, 1690 as Diocese of Beijing, on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Nanjing