Catholic Church in Cote d’Ivoire (original) (raw)

Area: 322,463 km²

Catholic Population: 7,795,000 Catholics (28.8% of 27,088,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 632 parishes, 1,059 mission stations (5 with resident priest, 1,054 without resident priest), 33 other centres

Clergy: 18 bishops (12 diocesan, 6 titular), 1,978 priests (1,575 diocesan, 403 religious), 7 permanent deacons (4 diocesan, 3 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,252 religious (292 brothers, 960 sisters), 11 members of secular institutes (sisters), 822 major seminarians, 28 missionaries, 20,252 catechists