Some statistics about the situation of the Catholic
Church in Turkey
until Dec. 31, 2005
Population and Church structure
Population: 72’070,000
Catholics:32,000
Catholics per 100 inhabitants: 0.04
Church circumscriptions: 7
Parishes: 47
Other pastoral centers: 8
Catholics per pastoral center: 582
People committed to apostolic activities
Bishops (at Nov. 1,2006): 6
Diocesan priests: 13
Religious priests: 55
Total of priests: 68
Permanent deacons: 4
Non-priest religious: 12
Professed religious: 86
Lay members of secular institutes: 1
Lay missionaries: 7
Catechists: 28
Pastoral indexes
Catholics per priest: 489
Catholics per pastoral worker: 151
Priests per pastoral center: 1,24
Priests per each 100 people committed to apostolic activity:
33,8
Priestly vocations:
Seminarians: 5
Seminarians per 100 thousand inhabitants: 0,01
Seminarians per 100 Catholics: 15,74
Seminarians per 100 priests: 7,35
Education centers owned or managed by the Church
Schools:
- pre-school and elementary: 12
- junior and high school: 10
Students:
- pre-school and elementary: 712
- junior and high school: 4124
Social and charity centers owned or managed by
the Church
Hospitals: 4
Ambulatories: 5
Retirement homes, handicapped people homes and orphanages:
5
Special education and reeducational centers: 3
