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Catholics in the United States

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 11.

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Catholics in the United States

Roman Catholics under the Stars and Stripes.

According to the official Catholic Directory there are in the United States 14,618,761 Roman Catholics, a gain of 271,734 over last year. If the Roman Catholics of the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and Guam are added there is a total of 22,886,027. Of priests in the United States there are 17,084, 12,650 seculars, and 4434 belonging to various orders; the number of bishops, 97. There are 4972 parochial schools with an attendance of 1,270,131. New York has a Roman Catholic population of 2,758,171; California, 391,500.