Catholics in the United States

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1875

Catholics in the United States.

THE Catholic Directory for 1875 shows that there are in this country seven archbishops, fifty-three bishops, 4,873 priests, 6,920 churches, chapels, and stations, of which 4,800 are churches, eighteen theological seminaries, and 1,375 studying for the priesthood; sixty-eight colleges, 511 academies, 1,444 parish schools, 215 asylums, homes, and refuges, eighty-seven hospitals, and a Catholic population (exclusive of Baltimore, Charleston, Erie, and Brooklyn, for which no estimates are given) of 5,761,242.