Growth of Catholicism by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 1, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 44.

Growth of Catholicism.

By Editor

For the last ten years the growth of the Catholic Church, in the archdiocese of Archbishop Riordan, of San Francisco, is outlined in the Catholic Directory, published under the supervision of the archbishop, as follows:—

“Total number of communicants in the Catholic Church within the jurisdiction of Archbishop Riordan for the past ten years, 225,000. This includes the churches of San Francisco, San Mateo, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, and Alameda Counties, and those portions of the counties of Santa Cruz and Merced lying north of 37 minutes 5 degrees north latitude.”

This represents the growth. What the total number is, we do not know; but we do know this, that Roman Catholicism is growing as so-called Protestantism is not.