Number of Catholic priests worldwide 1945?

Answer 1

The closest I can find is 700,000 in 1957 on Adherents.com: http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_139.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

What you are going to need to do is to locate a very good Catholic university with a Catholic library.

You need to locate the book
"Statistical Yearbook of the Church" in Latin "Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae" for the year 1945. This is the current title of the publication from the Vatican and it might have gone by a different name in 1945.

The current books might contain data for past years if the 1945 copy is not available. Talk to a research librarian at a Catholic University Library in charge of theology. You can often call the library and they will help you to track down what resource you need, IF YOU ARE SERIOUSLY DOING RESEARCH OR WORK RELATED TO YOUR JOB.

Here is some additional information that I found.
ESTIMATED NUMBERS FOR 1957
Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Time Incorporated (1957); pg. 207.
"...Pope, Pius XII, wields spiritual authority--through 62 cardinals, 1,427 bishops, some 400,000 secular priests, 300,000 religious priests and lay brothers, and 970,000 sisters--over some 484 million souls served by 410,000 churches in the world. "


http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/
is good for current data.

http://www.adherents.com/ has a bunch of statistical data that you can look at.

Answer 3

Why would anyone want his information. I doubt if the chuch even knew They kept moving them from church to church,city to city, country to country.Especially the nasty ones