Because the Pope is the senior pastor of all one billion Catholics worldwide.
Here are Catholics by country:
Brazil = 145,446,000
México = 123,393,000
Philippines = 69,630,000
USA = 64,621,000
Italy = 57,665,000
France = 44,499,000
Colombia = 38,406,000
Spain = 37,165,000
Poland = 35,010,000
Argentina = 34,480,000
Congo (Dem. Rep.) = 29,500,000
Peru = 28,160,000
Germany = 26,297,000
Venezuela = 24,815,000
Nigeria = 17,906,000
India = 17,005,000
Canada = 13,070,000
Ecuador = 11,749,000
Uganda = 11,219,000
Chile = 11,021,000
Tanzania = 10,465,000
Guatemala = 10,304,000
Angola = 10,302,000
Portugal = 9,457,000
Bolivia = 8,253,000
Dominican Republic = 8,039,000
Kenya = 8,018,000
Belgium = 7,775,000
Haïti = 6,743,000
Indonesia = 6,439,000
Cuba = 6,330,000
Hungary = 6,056,000
Honduras = 5,790,000
Austria = 5,755,000
Viêt Nam = 5,658,000
El Salvador = 5,436,000
Australia = 5,239,000
Paraguay = 5,239,000
Nicaragua = 5,212,000
Netherlands = 5,042,000
Great Britain = 4,787,000
Ukraine = 4,766,000
Madagascar = 4,701,000
Burundi = 4,567,000
Korea (South) = 4,377,000
Mozambique = 4,314,000
Cameroon = 4,287,000
Ireland = 4,161,000
Rwanda = 4,133,000
Sudan = 4,019,000
Slovakia = 3,942,000
Croatia = 3,867,000
Costa Rica = 3,763,000
Czech Republic = 3,519,000
Zambia = 3,425,000
Malawi = 3,281,000
Switzerland = 3,186,000
South Africa = 3,101,000
China = 2,964,000
Côte d'Ivoire = 2,841,000
Puerto Rico = 2,799,000
Lithuania = 2,766,000
Ghana = 2,675,000
Uruguay = 2,315,000
Antilles = 2,233,000
Congo = 2,077,000
Lebanon = 1,883,000
Romania = 1,875,000
Panama = 1,799,000
Papua New Guinea = 1,688,000
Benin = 1,646,000
Slovenia = 1,623,000
Burkina Faso = 1,545,000
Togo = 1,483,000
Sri Lanka = 1,364,000
Yemen = 1,300,000
Zimbabwe = 1,282,000
Pakistan = 1,191,000
Belarus = 1,030,000
Lesotho = 971,000
Central African Republic = 793,000
Russian Federation = 789,000
Malaysia = 784,000
East Timor = 767,000
Chad = 720,000
Pacific (Oceania) = 703,000
Senegal = 673,000
Gabon = 615,000
Myanmar = 603,000
Réunion = 595,000
Equatorial Guinea = 548,000
Serbia and Montenegro = 541,000
Ethiopia = 533,000
Japan = 509,000
Bosnia and Herzegovina = 464,000
New Zealand = 459,000
Cape Verde = 432,000
Latvia = 430,000
Syria = 425,000
Iraq = 414,000
Luxembourg = 388,000
Namibia = 375,000
Malta = 368,000
Mauritius = 310,000
Taiwan = 303,000
Egypt = 299,000
Thailand = 292,000
Bangladesh = 283,000
Armenia = 270,000
Albania = 235,000
Mali = 227,000
Sierra Leone = 186,000
Kazakhstan = 182,000
Guinea = 171,000
Liberia = 165,000
Singapore = 162,000
Kuwait = 158,000
Eritrea = 148,000
Sweden = 144,000
Greece = 123,000
São Tomé and PrÃncipe = 121,000
Guinea-Bissau = 120,000
Solomon Islands = 91,000
Botswana = 83,000
Palestine = 83,000
Libya = 75,000
Bulgaria = 74,000
Israel = 74,000
Seychelles = 70,000
Norway = 55,000
Swaziland = 55,000
Laos = 39,000
Denmark = 35,000
Gambia = 35,000
Jordan = 31,000
Monaco = 29,000
Turkey = 28,000
Liechtenstein = 25,000
Iran = 24,000
Morocco = 23,000
Brunei Darussalam = 21,000
Gibraltar = 21,000
Cambodia = 21,000
Moldova = 20,000
Tunisia = 20,000
Niger = 16,000
Macedonia = 14,000
Cyprus = 10,000
Finland = 8,000
Djibouti = 7,000
Nepal = 7,000
Saint Pierre and Miquelon = 6,000
Estonia = 5,000
Iceland = 5,000
Comoros = 4,000
Mauritania = 4,000
Algeria = 3,000
Total = 1,114,103,000
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/sc1.html
With love in Christ.
2007-12-22 23:32:34
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