Catholic Church in Argentina (original) (raw)

Area: 2,780,400 km²

Catholic Population: 42,015,000 Catholics (91.7% of 45,809,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 2,890 parishes, 480 mission stations (4 with resident priest, 476 without resident priest), 7,066 other centres

Clergy: 140 bishops (69 diocesan, 71 titular), 5,422 priests (3,879 diocesan, 1,543 religious), 1,118 permanent deacons (1,111 diocesan, 7 religious)

Non-Clergy: 7,023 religious (549 brothers, 6,474 sisters), 571 members of secular institutes (23 brothers, 548 sisters), 1,020 major seminarians, 21,938 missionaries, 87,848 catechists