Do you have any information on Region XV? Would be curious how us Eastern Catholics are doing. I went to an ordination of 2 young men to the Presbyterate this year for the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, and heard of other ordinations occurring as well.
Do you have data on the ratio of current priests (especially those in active ministry) to annual ordinations? That is a measure of “replacement”: if it’s less than about 40 for active priests or maybe 50-55 if you count all priests, then you’re growing, but if it’s higher the presbyterate is probably shrinking.
Of course that trajectory is only part of the story.
The Archdiocese of Chicago numbers are inaccurate, because there are zero to one ordinations per year for their archdiocesan priests. However, unlike Cardinal George who ordained them separately, Cardinal Cupich requires the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, who are under the Archdiocese of Chicago and who celebrate the Mass Novus Ordo in English and in Latin and the Traditional Latin Mass, to ordain their priests along with the archdiocesan priests and be considered diocesan priests in the reported statistics. Before doing this, Cardinal Cupich had to remove the founder of these Canons, Father Frank Phillips, on trumped up charges of adult sexual abuse (though the Resurrectionist order to which Father Phillips belongs exonerated him after a prolonged and thorough investigation, he was not allowed back into the Chicago Archdiocese--in short, he is a priest in good standing everywhere around the world except Chicago).
The St. John Cantius priests make up the majority of the priests and transitional deacons ordained by the Archdiocese of Chicago for 2025-27. That would be fine if Cardinal Cupich allowed them to take over parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago instead of closing them (there are enough of these St. John Cantius priests to take over about 20 parishes), but he has restricted them to only two parishes which were given to them by Cardinal George (St. John Cantius in Chicago and St. Peter's in Volo), as well as to one parish in the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois upon the invitation of Bishop Paprocki. Ordinations in Chicago have been tragically low (in comparison to the many under Cardinal George), which is not surprising as one year in the past few years when there was only one priest ordained, his ordination was delayed because he was considered too conservative. I wonder if any other diocese is ordaining members of religious orders or the Neocatechumenal Way and listing them as diocesan priests.
Do you have any information on Region XV? Would be curious how us Eastern Catholics are doing. I went to an ordination of 2 young men to the Presbyterate this year for the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, and heard of other ordinations occurring as well.
Thanks,
Ben
Region I - Conn, Maine, Mass, NH, RI, & Vermont
Region II - New York
Region III - New Jersey & Penn
Region IV - Deleware, DC, Maryland, Virginia, US Virgin Islands, & West VA
Region V - Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Miss, & Tenn
Region VI - Michigan & Ohio
Region VII - Illinois, Indiana, & Wisconsin
Region VIII - Minn, N. Dakota, & S. Dakota
Region IX - Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, & Nebraska,
Region X - Arkansas, Oklahoma, & Texas
Region XI - California & Hawaii
Region XII - Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, & Washington
Region XIII - Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming
Region XIV - Florida, Georgia, N. Carolina, & S. Carolina
Region XV - Eatern Catholic Eparchies
Do you have data on the ratio of current priests (especially those in active ministry) to annual ordinations? That is a measure of “replacement”: if it’s less than about 40 for active priests or maybe 50-55 if you count all priests, then you’re growing, but if it’s higher the presbyterate is probably shrinking.
Of course that trajectory is only part of the story.
The Archdiocese of Chicago numbers are inaccurate, because there are zero to one ordinations per year for their archdiocesan priests. However, unlike Cardinal George who ordained them separately, Cardinal Cupich requires the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, who are under the Archdiocese of Chicago and who celebrate the Mass Novus Ordo in English and in Latin and the Traditional Latin Mass, to ordain their priests along with the archdiocesan priests and be considered diocesan priests in the reported statistics. Before doing this, Cardinal Cupich had to remove the founder of these Canons, Father Frank Phillips, on trumped up charges of adult sexual abuse (though the Resurrectionist order to which Father Phillips belongs exonerated him after a prolonged and thorough investigation, he was not allowed back into the Chicago Archdiocese--in short, he is a priest in good standing everywhere around the world except Chicago).
The St. John Cantius priests make up the majority of the priests and transitional deacons ordained by the Archdiocese of Chicago for 2025-27. That would be fine if Cardinal Cupich allowed them to take over parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago instead of closing them (there are enough of these St. John Cantius priests to take over about 20 parishes), but he has restricted them to only two parishes which were given to them by Cardinal George (St. John Cantius in Chicago and St. Peter's in Volo), as well as to one parish in the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois upon the invitation of Bishop Paprocki. Ordinations in Chicago have been tragically low (in comparison to the many under Cardinal George), which is not surprising as one year in the past few years when there was only one priest ordained, his ordination was delayed because he was considered too conservative. I wonder if any other diocese is ordaining members of religious orders or the Neocatechumenal Way and listing them as diocesan priests.