Index
back to Catholic - other, Nova Scotia
| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic - other | Ontario | 1,200 | 0.01% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census "; Listed in table as "Other Catholic ", those Catholics NOT part of Ukrainian Catholic or Roman Catholic. |
| Catholic - other | Philippines | - | 8.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions "; listed in table as "Catholic (non-Roman) " |
| Catholic - other | Prince Edward Island | - | 0.00% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census "; Listed in table as "Other Catholic ", those Catholics NOT part of Ukrainian Catholic or Roman Catholic. |
| Catholic - other | Quebec | 1,200 | 0.02% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census "; Listed in table as "Other Catholic ", those Catholics NOT part of Ukrainian Catholic or Roman Catholic. |
| Catholic - other | Saskatchewan | 100 | 0.01% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census "; Listed in table as "Other Catholic ", those Catholics NOT part of Ukrainian Catholic or Roman Catholic. |
| Catholic - other | world | 3,400,000 | - | - | - | 1980 | Walls, Andrew. "Christianity " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984]; pg. 117. | "Figure 2.9: Christianity, 1980: world figures (after Barrett, 1982) "; listed in table as "Catholic (non-Roman) " |
| Catholic - other | Yukon | - | 0.00% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census "; Listed in table as "Other Catholic ", those Catholics NOT part of Ukrainian Catholic or Roman Catholic. |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | Connecticut | - | - | - | - | 1990 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990); pg. 288. | "Another center of the charismatic [Catholic] movement is Darien, Connecticut, the site of St. Paul's Church, which inspired the book Miracle in Darien, describing the charismatic experiences there. About 1,000 people attend the church's four services, adn the congregation is considering expanding its facilities. There are forty Bible study groups. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | Michigan | - | - | - | - | 1968 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 163. | "The Ann Arbor group soon became the largest and most influential center for the Catholic [Pentecostal] movement... Ann Arbor leaders also produced a periodical entitled New Covenant, which served as a central clearinghouse of information about the movement. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | Pennsylvania | - | - | - | - | 1966 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 163. | "In 1966 the first Catholic Pentecostal prayer meeting was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In a weekend retreat at Duquesne University, two theology professors, Ralph Keifer and Billy Story, led about twenty students and professors into a Pentecostal experience... In the months that followed, the movement swept through the Catholic student populations at the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame. The Catholic Pentecostal movement gained its early leaders, mostly young lay people, in this first sweep into the Catholic heartland of America. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | Pennsylvania: Philadelphia | - | - | 166 units |
- | 1990 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990); pg. 288. | "The Charismatic Prayer Groups in Philadelphia sponsor special conferences for charismatic priests nd parishioners. The June 1988 retreat brough in 130 priests, and the 1988 annual Charismatic Rally attracted 5,000 people. In Philadelphia alone there are 166 Catholic Charismatic prayer groups. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | Senegal | 400 | - | - | - | 1975 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: WORLD CHRISTIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, A comparative survey of churches and religions in the modern world; Edited by David B. Barrett; published by Oxford University Press, 1982.); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Catholic Pentecostals (or, Catholic charismatics): Totals (January 1975): 200 involved adults; total charismatic community including children, 400, increasing rapidly every month. |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 50,000 | - | - | - | 1970 | Quebedeaux, Richard. The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1976); pg. 184. | "Edward O'Connor has suggested (conservatively) 10,000 American Catholic Pentecostals (1971), Edward Fiske of the New York Times has estimated 15,000 to 50,000 (1970), and John Haughey of the Jesuit magazine America... 300,000 (1973). " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 10,000 | - | - | - | 1971 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 1086. | "...a charismatic revival that soon flowed beyond the Pentecostal churches into staid middle-class denominations... By 1971 there were even ten thousand or more Roman Catholic Pentecostals, with both clergy and nuns among them. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 10,000 | - | - | - | 1971 | Quebedeaux, Richard. The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1976); pg. 184. | "Edward O'Connor has suggested (conservatively) 10,000 American Catholic Pentecostals (1971), Edward Fiske of the New York Times has estimated 15,000 to 50,000 (1970), and John Haughey of the Jesuit magazine America... 300,000 (1973). " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | - | - | 1,250 units |
- | 1973 | Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 192. | "From a total of one hundred people attending the first conference, attendance increased to 22,000 at the 1973 meeting, reportedly drawn from 1,250 separate Catholic neo-Pentecostal groups around the U.S. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 300,000 | - | - | - | 1973 | Quebedeaux, Richard. The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1976); pg. 184. | "Edward O'Connor has suggested (conservatively) 10,000 American Catholic Pentecostals (1971), Edward Fiske of the New York Times has estimated 15,000 to 50,000 (1970), and John Haughey of the Jesuit magazine America... 300,000 (1973). " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 200,000 | - | - | - | 1973 | Reeves, Thomas C. The Empty Church: Does Organized Religion Matter Anymore? Simon & Schuster: New York, NY (1998). [Orig. source: "Pentecostal Tide ", Time magazine June 18, 1973, pg. 91.]; pg. 157. | "There were probably more than 200,000 Roman Catholic charismatics in this country. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 300,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 221. | "A Pentecostal movement that stresses the charismatic gifts of speaking in tongues, healing, interpretation, and prophecy now claims more than 300,000 Catholics who meet in groups across the country [U.S.] " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 10,000,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Naisbitt, John & Patricia Aburdene. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. New York: William Morrow and Co. (1990); pg. 288. | "Ten million U.S. Catholics, about one fifth, call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal... the [Catholic] church has embraced them--fainting and all... The Charismatic Prayer Groups in Philadelphia sponsor special conferences for charismatic priests nd parishioners. The June 1988 retreat brough in 130 priests, and the 1988 annual Charismatic Rally attracted 5,000 people. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | USA | 11,400,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Russell, Chandler. Racing Toward 2001; Zondervan Publishing House: Grand Rapids, MI (1992). [Orig. source: Naisbitt & Aburdene, "Megatrends 200 ", pg. 288. Naisbitt's source is National Catholic Renewal Center, South Bend, Indiana.]; pg. 168. | "Now 57 million strong, the church is adding 2 million members each year... Perhaps as many as one in five Roman Catholics call themselves charismatic, or Pentecostal, and somewhere between 13 and 21% say they are born-again Christians. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | world | - | - | - | - | 1970 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 163. | "New songs were written and published for the hundreds of prayer groups that began to spring up in America and in other countries. Notre Dame became the chief conference place for the Catholics who flocked to the [Pentecostal] movement in phenomenal numbers. " |
| Catholic - Pentecostal | world | 80,000,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* DAWN FridayFax 1997 #50: "Spain: Catholic Charismatics "; Source: AMIGOS, Tel/Fax (Spain) 964-216518. Email: wardein@stalker.es | Roman Catholic - Pentecostal |
| Catholic - Polish parishes | USA | 1,165,604 | - | 466 units |
- | 1916 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 128-129. | Table 4.2: "Parishes Reporting Use of a Foreign Language for Services, 1916 "; "Source: Bureau of the Census (1919, vol. 1, pp. 81-82). "; 466 parishes (with 1,165,604 adherents) which use only foreign langauge. Also 269 parishes (260,129 adherents) use English and the foreign language. |
| Catholic - practicing | Argentina | 7,253,092 | 20.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook 1998 (viewed June 24, 1999) | nominally Roman Catholic 90% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 6%; 36,265,463 (July 1998 est.) |
| Catholic - practicing | Argentina | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Note: This web page hosted by Middlebury College and originally viewed circa Sept. 1998 was no longer available when Adherents.com checked back 27 Feb. 1999. | Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 90% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 6% |
| Catholic - practicing | Argentina | - | 20.00% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: "Wholesome Words: Worldwide Missions " by Stephen Ross, "First Edition, 1998 "; [original sources: The World Book Encyclopedia, c1998.] | Table: "Major Roman Catholic Countries of the World "; "90% (nominally; less than 20% practicing) " |
| Catholic - practicing | Brazil | 33,000,000 | 21.57% | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* Epstein, Jack. "Kicking of icon outrages Brazil Catholics " in Dallas Morning News, November 24, 1995; (viewed 30 July 1999, web site: RickRoss.com). | "...nonpracticing Catholics, estimated to be as high as 70 percent of its 110 million members... " |
| Catholic - practicing | Brazil | 35,000,000 | - | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* Nascimento, Elma Lia. "Praise the Lord and pass the catch-up ", "news from Brazil, November 1995; dateline: Brazzil ". (viewed 30 July 1999, web site: RickRoss.com) | "Apparently, Universal with its 3 million faithful is no match for the 105 million Catholics (35 million of which are practicing)... " |
| Catholic - practicing | Ireland | - | - | - | - | 1989 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 19. | "...today, close inspection of the religious situation in societies where 'everyone' is a Roman Catholic reveals levels of religious participation that are astonishingly low compared with those in America--the exceptions being places such as Ireland and Quebec where the church has also served as the primary vehicle for political resistance to external domination (Stark and McCann, 1989). " |
| Catholic - practicing | Poland | 28,650,000 | 75.00% | - | - | 1997 | Shoemaker, M. Wesley. Russia, Eurasian States, and Eastern Europe 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997); pg. 278. | "Poland... Population: 38.2 million... Roman Catholic (95%; 75% practicing), Uniate, Greek Orthodox, Protestant and others (5%). " |
| Catholic - practicing | Quebec | - | - | - | - | 1989 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 19. | "...today, close inspection of the religious situation in societies where 'everyone' is a Roman Catholic reveals levels of religious participation that are astonishingly low compared with those in America--the exceptions being places such as Ireland and Quebec where the church has also served as the primary vehicle for political resistance to external domination (Stark and McCann, 1989). " |
| Catholic - priests | Argentina | 5,236 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Argentina | 5,845 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Bolivia | 812 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Bolivia | 1,038 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Brazil | 12,943 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Brazil | 15,568 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Chile | 2,206 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Chile | 2,307 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Colombia | 3,500 | - | - | - | 1970 | Landry, Lionel. The Land and People of Colombia; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1970); pg. 66. | "The Church has, in Colombia, fifty bishops and archbishops, 3,500 priests, and 11,000 nuns. " |
| Catholic - priests | Colombia | 5,227 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Colombia | 6,912 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Costa Rica | 357 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Costa Rica | 700 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Cuba | 195 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Cuba | 288 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Dominican Republic | 481 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Dominican Republic | 643 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Ecuador | 1,469 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Ecuador | 1,792 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | El Salvador | 406 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | El Salvador | 558 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Guatemala | 644 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Guatemala | 901 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Haiti | 391 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Haiti | 583 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Honduras | 202 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Honduras | 333 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Italy | 55,499 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* Zenit. "DOSSIER: BRAZIL AND MEXICO HAVE LARGEST NUMBER OF CATHOLICS " on "Zenit News Agency " web site (online Catholic news); Archives: 13 June 1999 (ZE99061302). (Viewed 19 June 1999). | "...figures given in the latest edition of the Church's Statistical Yearbook for 1997... Italy also has the largest number of priests (55,499) and women religious (114,775)... " |
| Catholic - priests | Latin America | 46,720 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Latin America | 58,156 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Mexico | 9,916 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Mexico | 12,990 | - | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
| Catholic - priests | Nicaragua | 310 | - | - | - | 1972 | *LINK* web site: "Religion in Latin America " (Providence College); web page: "Statistics " (viewed 14 Aug. 1999). [Orig. source: Statistical Yearbook of the Church 1996; Catholic Almanac 1975. | Table 2: "Increase in Priests, 1972-1996 " |
