Who are the priests of Rome? A look at the numbers
Who are the priests of Rome? Where are they from? How old are they?
Pope Leo XIV is set to ordain eight new priests for the Diocese of Rome next weekend.
While most European dioceses would envy ordaining eight priests in a single year, it’s one of the smallest Roman ordination cohorts on record, after just six new priests were ordained in 2020 and 2017, and just five in 2011.
