franciscanheart Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I'm wondering if the majority of phatmassers come from larger or smaller parishes. I just found out my parish is about 4 times larger than I believe it was. I was shocked! So anyway... how large is your church? [I know there are a lot of options! Sorry about that!] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionarybelle Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I'm pretty sure it's about 1000 families... I'm not certain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 almost 1800 - largest in my diocese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciscanheart Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 [quote name='Lil Red' date='Apr 18 2006, 04:10 PM']almost 1800 - largest in my diocese [right][snapback]952787[/snapback][/right] [/quote] red, how many churches are there in your diocese? that's another one i wanna know. i wont make a poll though. dont worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morostheos Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 My current parish has about 500 families. The parish I grew up in had over 2000 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 [quote name='hugheyforlife' date='Apr 18 2006, 03:11 PM']red, how many churches are there in your diocese? that's another one i wanna know. i wont make a poll though. dont worry.[right][snapback]952788[/snapback][/right][/quote]well, there are 7 Catholic churches in my city (not counting the hospital chapel), and there are 120 Catholic churches in my diocese. not including hospital chapels, but including chapels of occasional worship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOliverOrder88 Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 About 1200 familes... Rather large for our part of town....but other parts have parishes over 5,000 families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JJRandolph Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Don't have a "parish" per se but do attend a church with a membership of at least 500 familes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChild Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I was wondering that myself. . . how many families were in our parish as we have 5 priests. I just learned we have 4655 families, spread out over two campuses. Actually we have the one church/school and then about 40 minutes away, where they are starting to do a lot of construction of new homes, the church leases space at a school gym to have Mass once a week for those that live down there (where there is currently only a small mission church, also operated by our parish). I didn't realize our church was so big! It doesn't seem that way when there are 9 weekend Masses, not including the misison, (where I think there's only one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charms717RM1 Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 (edited) I have no idea actually. All i know is that there's max seating for about 600, but we're always packed. All the masses except the 7:45 am one are standing room only. On Easter we somehow crammed 850+ inside the sanctuary. Right now we're trying to decide whether to add on to the existing santcuary or to build an entirely new one because we own this huge field right next door. Most people are still waiting for a cost analysis before forming a decision. Me, I think we should build the bishop an old school Basilica. Or at the very least a Cathedral like my home parish in the avatar pic. Edited April 18, 2006 by Charms717RM1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciscanheart Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 [quote name='Lil Red' date='Apr 18 2006, 04:18 PM']well, there are 7 Catholic churches in my city (not counting the hospital chapel), and there are 120 Catholic churches in my diocese. not including hospital chapels, but including chapels of occasional worship. [right][snapback]952795[/snapback][/right] [/quote] whoa. 120? that's a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 [quote name='hugheyforlife' date='Apr 18 2006, 03:28 PM']whoa. 120? that's a lot![right][snapback]952805[/snapback][/right][/quote]a lot of those churches are serviced by one priest. for example, close by our town, there are 3 towns that share 1 priest. and many churches are in small towns (probably no more than 100 families per parish). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 and considering that my whole state has just under 1,000,000 people - so you figure maybe 500,000 people in my diocese, and of course [b]maybe[/b] half of those are Catholics. well, actually probably closer to a quarter of those people are Catholic (maybe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChild Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I just looked. . .we have 95 in our diocese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thessalonian Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 It is the biggest one in Minnesota. I believe it is around 10,000 families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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