Subject: VISnews 110721   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 136   
   ENGLISH   
   THURSDAY, 21 JULY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Statistics for the Catholic Church in Spain   
      
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   STATISTICS FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SPAIN   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 29 OCT 2010 (VIS) - For the occasion of Benedict XVI's   
   apostolic trip to the Spanish capital Madrid to preside at twenty-sixth   
   World Youth Day, statistics have been published concerning the Catholic   
   Church in that country. The information, updated to 31 December 2010, comes   
   from the Central Statistical Office of the Church. The Pope's journey is due   
   to take place from 18 to 21 August.   
      
     Spain has a surface area of 505,992 square kilometres and a population of   
   46,073,000 of whom 42,470,000 (92.2 percent) are Catholic. There are 70   
   ecclesiastical circumscriptions and 22,890 parishes. Currently there are 126   
   bishops, 24,778 priests, 54,184 religious, 2,826 lay members of secular   
   institutes and 99,581 catechists. Minor seminarians number 1,258 and major   
   seminarians 1,866.   
      
     A total of 1,461,899 students attend 5,535 centres of Catholic education,   
   from kindergartens to universities. Other institutions belonging to the   
   Church or run by priests or religious in Spain include 77 hospitals, 54   
   clinics, 1 leper colony, 803 homes for the elderly or disabled, 391   
   orphanages and nurseries, 293 family counselling centres and other pro-life   
   centres, 3,323 centres for education and social rehabilitation, and 632   
   institutions of other kinds.   
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