What Are America’s Most Fruitful Dioceses? A Look at the Numbers…

The median Latin-rite diocese in the United States has one infant baptism per year for every 113 Catholics, one non-infant reception into the Church per year for every 413 Catholics, one wedding per year for every 453 Catholics, and one diocesan seminarian for every 14,473 Catholics, according to data published in the 2024 edition of The Official Catholic Directory, which chronicled statistics for the preceding year…

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