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Priest Shortage USA: 1976-2009

These statistics are from the Official Catholic Directory. To view the statistics, select a diocese from the menu below.

select a diocese Albany Alexandria Allentown Altoona-Johnstown Amarillo Anchorage (Archdiocese) Arlington Armenian Exarchate Atlanta (Archdiocese) Austin Baker Baltimore (Archdiocese) Baton Rouge Beaumont Belleville Biloxi Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston (Archdiocese) Bridgeport Brooklyn Brownsville Buffalo Burlington Camden Charleston Charlotte Cheyenne Chicago (Archdiocese) Cincinnati (Archdiocese) Cleveland Colorado Springs Columbus Corpus Christi Covington Crookston Dallas Davenport Denver (Archdiocese) Des Moines Detroit (Archdiocese) Dodge City Dubuque (Archdiocese) Duluth El Paso Erie Evansville Fairbanks Fall River Fargo Fort Wayne-South Bend Fort Worth Fresno Gallup Galveston-Houston Gary Gaylord Grand Island Grand Rapids Great Falls-Billings Green Bay Greensburg Harrisburg Hartford (Archdiocese) Helena Honolulu Houma-Thibodaux Indianapolis (Archdiocese) Jackson Jefferson City Joliet Juneau Kalamazoo Kansas City, KS (Archdiocese) Kansas City-St. Joseph Knoxville La Crosse Lafayette, IN Lafayette, LA Lake Charles Lansing Laredo Las Cruces Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles (Archdiocese) Louisville (Archdiocese) Lubbockn Madison Manchester Marquette Melkite Apostolic Exarchate Memphis Metuchen Miami (Archdiocese) Military Services, USA Milwaukee (Archdiocese) Mobile (Archdiocese) Monterey Nashville New Orleans (Archdiocese) New Ulm New York (Archdiocese) Newark (Archdiocese) Newton (Melkite U.S.) Norwich Oakland Ogdensburg Oklahoma City (Archdiocese) Omaha (Archdiocese) Orange Orlando Our Lady of Deliverance - Syriac Our Lady of Lebanon Owensboro Palm Beach Parma-Byzantine Passaic - Byzantine Paterson Pensacola-Tallahassee Peoria Philadelphia (Archdiocese) Philadelphia-Ukranian Phoenix Pittsburgh Pittsburgh - Byzantine Portland, ME Portland, OR (Archdiocese) Providence Pueblo Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Rochester Rockford Rockville Centre Sacramento Saginaw Salina Salt Lake City San Angelo San Antonio (Archdiocese) San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco (Archdiocese) San Jose Santa Fe (Archdiocese) Santa Rosa Savannah Scranton Seattle (Archdiocese) Shreveport Sioux City Sioux Falls Spokane Springfield, IL Springfield, MA Springfield-Cape Girardeau St. Augustine St. Cloud St. George's in Canton Romanian St. Josaphat in Parma-Ukranian St. Louis (Archdiocese) St. Maron, Brooklyn St. Nicholas Chicago Ukrainian St. Paul and Minneapolis (Archdiocese) St. Peter (Chaldean) St. Petersburg St. Thomas Syro-Malabar St. Thomas the Apostle St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Stamford-Ukranian Steubenville Stockton Superior Syracuse Toledo Trenton Tucson Tulsa Tyler Van Nuys- Byzantine Venice Victoria, TX Washington (Archdiocese) Wheeling-Charleston Wichita Wilmington Winona Worcester Yakima Youngstown

Other Statistics:

Priest Shortage Statistics in the U. S. and Worldwide
(summary from 1965-2003)

 

Corpus Christi Campaign archive

• Priest Shortage USA statistics
• Fact Sheet about the priest shortage
• Optional Celibacy FAQs
• Synod Exhortation Ensures Eucharist Only For Elite
• Campaign adds women deacons
• Sample letter to Bishops
• Contact information for U.S. Bishops
• Massive 53 Diocese Study Reveals Most Priests Want Optional Celibacy Discussed
• Prayer Service for National Week of Prayer for the Synod
• Advent Prayer Service for the International Synod on the Eucharist
• Corpus Christi Prayer Service
  2002/2003 - 2005