HIS-Press-Service, 1981 (6. évfolyam, 19-21. szám)
1981-03-01 / 19. szám
Press-Service--------Special Topic "ligion and Church in Hungary ___________________ No.19 - VI ENNa, March 1981 Statistics on Hungary's Church In connection with a study of priestly vocations, a number of Church statistics were compiled in 1980 by a group of persons qualified for such work. Although the figures contained in the 1980 data provided by the country's diocesan chanceries and seminaries are not considered official statistics, they are for all practical purposes used and made public as such by the Church. Number of Faithful in Relation to the Number of Active Priests and Seminarians in 1979 Diocese Number of Faithful Number of Active Priests Number of Seminarians Number of Active Priest Faithful per Seminarian Csanád 376,000 149 19 2,522 19,789 EGER 912,000 465 60 1,961 15,200 ESZTERGOM 792,000 356 38 2,221 20,841 Győr 430,000 268 18 1,604 23,888 Hajdúdorog 300,000 146 36 2,054 8,333 KALOCSA 218,520 102 12 2,142 18,210 Pécs 460,158 206 26 2,233 17,697 Székesfehérvár 463,857 193 10 2,403 46,386 Szombathely 319,279 192 13 1,662 24,559 Vác 1,200,000 351 27 3,418 44,444 Veszprém 650,000 362 25 1,780 26,020 Catholic Church in Hungary 6,122,314 2,790 284 2,194 21,557 The statistics on the faithful are not taken from the most recent compilation of data, but instead from the Annuario Pontifi cio 1980 which is published in Rome. The Annuario is supplied with its data on Hungary by the Hungarian Bishops Conference. Like those in the diocesan statistical reports which appear from time to time, these figures too are not the result of regularly undertaken statistical surveys. The last official survey of the number of Catholics living in Hungary was made during the course of the 1949 national census. At that time, 6,488,782 of the country's 9,204,799 inhabitants indicated that they were Catholics
