Subject: VISnews 110517
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 92
ENGLISH
TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
SUMMARY:
- Statistics on Catholic Church in Croatia
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
- In Memoriam
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STATISTICS ON CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CROATIA
VATICAN CITY, 17 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Pope Benedict XVI will make an apostolic
visit to Croatia from 4 to 5 June for the celebrations of the National
Croatian Catholic Families Day. For this occasion, statistics have been
compiled concerning the Catholic Church in that country. The information,
updated to 31 December 2009, comes from the Central Statistical Office of
the Church.
Croatia, whose capital is Zagreb, has a population of 4,429,000, of whom
3,981,000 (89.88%) are Catholic. There are 17 ecclesiastical
circumscriptions and 1,598 parishes. There are currently 25 bishops, 2,343
priests, 3,711 religious, 44 lay members of secular institutes, and 1,912
catechists. Minor seminarians number 149 and major seminarians 438.
A total of 13,362 students attend the 41 centers of Catholic education,
from kindergartens to university. Other charitable and social organizations
belonging to the Church or run by priests or religious in Croatia include: 1
hospital, 30 homes for the elderly or disabled, 53 orphanages and nurseries,
14 family counseling and other pro-life centers, 16 centers for social
education or rehabilitation, and 6 institutions of other kinds.
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 17 MAY 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father is scheduled to meet with
Archbishop Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples, in an audience this afternoon.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 17 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father:
- accepted the resignation of Bishop Joaquim Goncalves from the pastoral
care of the Diocese of Vila Real, upon having reached the age limit. Bishop
Amandio Jose Tomas, previously coadjutor of the same diocese, succeeds him.
- appointed Bishop Robert Daniel Conlon, of Steubenville, as bishop of
Joliet in Illinois (area 10,920, population 1,904,000, Catholics 655,415,
priests 283, permanent deacons 209, religious 669), USA.
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IN MEMORIAM
VATICAN CITY, 17 MAY 2011 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent
weeks:
- Cardinal Vicente Garcia-Gasco, archbishop emeritus of Valencia, Spain, on
1 May at the age of 80.
- Bishop Luigi Del Gallo Roccagiovine, on 12 May at the age of 88.
- Archbishop Gheorghe Gutiu, bishop emeritus of Cluj-Gherla of the
Romanians, Romania on 8 May at the age of 87.
- Archbishop Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, emeritus of Hassake-Nisibi of
the Syrians, Syria, on 4 May at the age of 94.
- Archbishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna, emeritus of Onitsha, Nigeria, on 11 May
at the age of 81.
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