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Nearly 620,000 people were baptized or received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2023. Here is where they are most concentrated.
In 2023 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were a total of 619,775 people who entered the Catholic Church in the United States in the country's 178 Latin-rite dioceses, according to the 2024 edition of The Official Catholic Directory.
While the vast majority — 480,905 — of those new Catholics were infant baptisms, there were still nearly 150,000 others who entered the Church either as a non-infant minor, an adult, or who were received into full communion. (Those people who have already been validly baptized as a Christian do not receive baptism again, but will receive the Eucharist and, depending on their age, Confirmation.)
These people were not distributed evenly across the United States.
Here's a look at the top five dioceses who received the most non-infant baptism conversions in 2023:
Continued below.
In 2023 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were a total of 619,775 people who entered the Catholic Church in the United States in the country's 178 Latin-rite dioceses, according to the 2024 edition of The Official Catholic Directory.
While the vast majority — 480,905 — of those new Catholics were infant baptisms, there were still nearly 150,000 others who entered the Church either as a non-infant minor, an adult, or who were received into full communion. (Those people who have already been validly baptized as a Christian do not receive baptism again, but will receive the Eucharist and, depending on their age, Confirmation.)
These people were not distributed evenly across the United States.
Here's a look at the top five dioceses who received the most non-infant baptism conversions in 2023:
Continued below.
Here are the Catholic dioceses with the most converts
Nearly 620,000 people were baptized or received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2023. Here is where they are most concentrated.
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