Published by the Vatican's own mission news agency, hosted on press.vatican.va, and drawn directly from the Church's own Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae ("Church's Book of Statistics"). This is the Church counting its own institutions, not an outside body's estimate of them, which is why it sits at the top tier despite being a press dossier rather than the statistical yearbook volume itself.
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Published by the Vatican's own mission news agency, hosted on press.vatican.va, and drawn directly from the Church's own Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae ("Church's Book of Statistics"). This is the Church counting its own institutions, not an outside body's estimate of them, which is why it sits at the top tier despite being a press dossier rather than the statistical yearbook volume itself. NotesPublished by the Vatican's own mission news agency, hosted on press.vatican.va, and drawn directly from the Church's own Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae ("Church's Book of Statistics"). This is the Church counting its own institutions, not an outside body's estimate of them, which is why it sits at the top tier despite being a press dossier rather than the statistical yearbook volume itself.
Citation
AuthorElena Grazini and Luca Mainoldi, for Agenzia Fides
PublisherAgenzia Fides, the mission news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://press.vatican.va/content/dam/salastampa/it/fuori-bollettino/pdf/EN%20-%20Catholic%20Church%20Statistics%202025.pdf
Source TypeOfficial statistical return
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Denominations, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
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