Catholic Church in Colombia (original) (raw)

Area: 1,138,914 km²

Catholic Population: 47,781,000 Catholics (93.6% of 51,049,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 4,560 parishes, 294 mission stations (53 with resident priest, 241 without resident priest), 1,523 other centres

Clergy: 121 bishops (61 diocesan, 60 titular), 9,895 priests (7,650 diocesan, 2,245 religious), 803 permanent deacons (795 diocesan, 8 religious)

Non-Clergy: 12,724 religious (764 brothers, 11,960 sisters), 308 members of secular institutes (9 brothers, 299 sisters), 3,021 major seminarians, 66,914 missionaries, 48,898 catechists