The Annuario Pontificio and its companion Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, issued annually by the Central Office of Church Statistics of the Holy See, are the Catholic Church's own official statistical returns on its baptised membership and clergy. As the Church's own record of what it counts, it is fully authoritative for that purpose, which is the fact this atlas cites it for. It reports the Church's own administrative count rather than an independent demographic survey of religious affiliation or practice, a distinction worth keeping in mind when a figure from it is compared against outside survey data.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the Church's own official statistical return on its baptised membership and clergy, fully authoritative for what the Church itself counts though not an independent demographic survey. NotesIssued annually; cited for the Catholic Church's own baptised-membership returns rather than for any one edition.
Citation
AuthorCentral Office of Church Statistics, Holy See
PublisherLibreria Editrice Vaticana
The Holy See's own publishing house, established 1926, issues the Annuario annually; organizational self-publication, matching the convention already used elsewhere in this corpus. Source Typereference
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyCentral Office of Church Statistics, Holy See
Custodian BasisThe Catholic Church own statistical return about its own membership and clergy. Authoritative for what the Church counts; it is not an independent demographic study.
Claims Backed By This Source (39 claims)
This source backs 39 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. Plus 16 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Cities, 28 claims: 14 well-attested, 14 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 9 well-attested.
- Denominations, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Religious Organization & Structure, 1 claims: 1 general references.
General References
16Religious Organization & Structure
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