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Looking for number of priests in the United States in 1990?

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Luke12:48
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Posted: Tue Nov 13th, 2007 09:46 pm

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I can find numbers for specific orders or different years but not a total number for 1990. Any ideas for resources...?

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Posted: Tue Nov 13th, 2007 10:19 pm

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Hi Kate,

I found an organization called Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) in doing research a while back for a paper of mine:

http://cara.georgetown.edu/bulletin/index.htm

As you can see on that page, however, for the US it gives statistics for 1985 and 1995, but not 1990. Maybe you could assume that the decline was fairly constant and come up with a reasonable estimate for the intermediate date, for your purposes.

Dave

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