Are most of the people in the religious world Catholics???

Question

How many here on Yahoo Answers are Catholics?

Answer 1

me...but we're still Christians, so we worship Jesus same as other Christians..

Smile=D

-jose

Answer 2

Not I. Statistically, Catholics make up a very small portion of all the religious world. In the United States there are more Catholics than any other denomination of Christianity, but if you add up all the other denominations together, Catholics pale in size. Throw in other countries and other religions, and Catholics will only make up about 5% of the world's population, perhaps as high as 10% of the world's religious population.

I might add that Wikipedia suggests there are approximately a billion Catholics, which would make Catholics 16% of the world's population. As a historian and scholar, I question the accuracy of that stat, though.

Answer 3

Catholicism is the world's largest religious body, with 1,100,000,000 adherents (including non-Latin rites in communion with Rome), closely followed by Sunni Islam's 1 billion.

In the US, non-Catholic Christians (Protestant/evangelical, etc.) account for the majority, or 52%, of the population, and Catholics are at 24% with approximately 62 million adherents. LDS runs a distant third at 2%.

In terms of denominational groups in the US, the Catholic Church is largest followed by Baptist and Methodist/Wesleyan.

Interestingly, the Southern Baptist Convention -- by far the largest non-Catholic denomination in the US -- doesn't even make the top 10 worldwide. It is surpassed in the global tally by not only Catholics but also Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Assemblies of God, and churches of the Anglican Communion (including the C of E and the Episcopal churches in the US, strictly for statistical purposes).

(I'm Catholic)

Answer 4

Nope. They are not. There are more Muslims than there are Catholics. Many are Catholics on Yahoo Answers, not sure just how many though.

Answer 5

Utterly immaterial.

There are 1 & 1/2 billion Christians (give or take a few hundred thousand) in the world.

1.2 billion of them are Catholic, either Roman Rite or one of the 6 Eastern Rite Uniate Churches. All look to Rome and to his Holiness as their spiritual leader and the visible presence of Christ on earth. (Matthew 16).

Answer 6

Of the world religions Christianity has a 2.1 billion population
of that 2.1 billion the top 2 are:
Roman Catholic Church: 1.05 billion
Eastern Orthodox Church: 240 million

Answer 7

I'm Catholic all the way babe!

But to answer your question...I'm pretty sure Christianity is the number one religion in the world...it's atleast the number one in the U.S...and in Christianity...there are more Catholics than Protestants!



Mr. Taco do you know your source? Because I think you are sadly mistaken.

btw a chart from my source below was in 2005

Answer 8

I am not a catholic but catholic has the largest congregation so far, they are about trillions all over the world

Answer 9

We're certainly one of the biggest, maybe the biggest, but I don't think you could say most. There are about a billion of us.

Answer 10

Among christians maybe but to include the Arab world, it´s a ??