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Very eye-opening stats, Amado. We have plenty of mission territory to go around!
The fields are white and ready for harvest!
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Side note: India has more Christians than Australia. 
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Amadeus,
Where does Judaism sit on that list?
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Sam:
The same demographers put Judaism at "only" 14 million worldwide, 12th on their list.
Amado
P.S. Next to Israel where there are about 5 million Jews within its borders, the U.S. is home to slightly more than 3 million Jews, the largest outside of State of Israel.
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The same demographers put Judaism at "only" 14 million worldwide, 12th on their list.
Amado
P.S. Next to Israel where there are about 5 million Jews within its borders, the U.S. is home to slightly more than 3 million Jews, the largest outside of State of Israel. Amado- Interesting! I would have thought the numbers were much higher. Thanks for the info, Sam
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Sam:
I, myself, was surprised at the "low" number for Judaism.
But remember, they lost so many to the Holocaust!
Currently, there are "only" 6.3 + million "Israelites": 5 million Jews, 1 million Muslims, about 130,000 Christians (Arab and non-Arab), about 100,000 Druze, and the remainder unspecified.
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Here's yet another interesting way to look at the numbers Gordo shared with us... If you took all 1.1 billion of the world's Catholics and reduced that population proportionately such that it would fill to capacity each of the 30 Major League Baseball ballparks in North America, you'd find that members of the Latin Church would occupy the seats in more than twenty-nine and one-half of those ballparks.The worldwide membership of all 22 of the Eastern Catholic Churches combined would occupy a total of 20,761 seats in that 30th ballpark (assuming an average MLB ballpark seating capacity of 47,268 - I checked  ), or roughly 44% of its capacity. Within that "Eastern Catholic Section" of that 30th ballpark we'd find that the full membership of the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in America would occupy 128 seats... that's 128 seats total out of 30 filled-to-capacity ballparks....just thought this would help to visualize... Al
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Interesting!!
Please if you can, do the whole ballpark thing including the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Church of the East.
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Originally posted by Michael_Thoma: Side note:
India has more Christians than Australia. I am beginning to think India would have more real Christians than the USA. 
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Dear Michael:
If by "real Christians" you mean only the Orthodox here in the U.S., excluding Catholics, Anglicans, evangelical Protestants, Methodists, Baptists, etc., then India has much, much more "real Christians." :p
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What is the total number of Orthodox in the United States?
(Including the Oriental Churches of course.)
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I am not really certain on the exact number of Orthodox Christians in the U.S.
However, Fr. Roberson of CNEWA puts the approximate membership of OCA at around 1 million, excluding the small and unaffiliated Eastern Orthodox Churches like ACROD, UOC, the Albanian Diocese, the Belarusan Diocese, ROCOR, etc. I also don't know the numbers for the Oriental Orthodox in the U.S.
Having been reading statistics for religious affiliation in the U.S., Orthodox (Eastern and Oriental) Christians combined could not exceed the estimated 16 million Catholics, East and West, in India and, still, excluding the Indian Orthodox Christians!
I might be wrong, though.
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That number for OCA has been bandied around by them for a while, although I didn't know it was picked up by Fr. Roberson. In previous discussions of this issue links were given to a Hartford Institute study which puts the number at ~100k (and the total number of EOs in the US at 500k, IIRC). Discusssions at OCA meetings also put the number at a little over 100k (114k, IIRC).
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The actual published statistics for the OCA are far fewer than that. By their own published stats for the recent All-American Council was numbered in the 30K region. The GOA is claiming in the 2+million area, and the others have various numbers.
As much as I would like to say certain Orthodox groups are growing because of certain identification with an user-friendly approach to those seeking the church, in reality they are not. While the Antiochians are experiencing some growth, the overall numbers are flat.
I just want to clarify this, so that some do not get an over inflated picture of church growth at present. All SOCBA jurisdictions have been having to take an honest look at the real numbers and have been starting to place a strong re-evangelization move on from within to reclaim some of the unchurched or lapsed buddied with an evangelization outreach.
I hope this clears up some misconceptions.
In IC XC,
Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Byzantine Catholics of various stripes: approximately 7.5 million.
To put this in perspective:
Yes, we are small by comparison to the Roman Catholic behemoth [and they may thank their ancestors' missionary zeal].
But compare with these statistics:
The Mormon [LDS] Church: 5 million
Episcopal Church USA: 2 million
Jehovah's Witnesses: 1 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church [USA]: 5 million
Presbyterian Church [USA}: 3.2 million
Lutheran Church [Missouri Synod]: 2.5 million
Mennonites [all denominations]: 1.5 million
7th Day Adventists: 800,000
Church of the Nazarene: 608,000
Unitarians: 800,000
-Daniel
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