The results of the national study will be available in 2001. The following a summary of the data submitted for the Diocese. This information is accurate as of September 2000. For purposes of this study, a temporary assignment of a pastoral is treated as a vacant priest pastor appointment. Also, two priest administrators are treated as though they were priest pastors.
Red numbers indicate percentage of row total.
The total number of parishes has declined by five percent, from 178 to 169. When the four parishes in the Corning Painted Post Roman Catholic Community are suppressed and a single new parish erected, the decline will be 6.7 percent. The total number of single parishes has declined by 13 percent from 104 to 90. Single parishes as a percentage of total parishes have declined from 58 percent to 53 percent. The percentage of clustered parishes has increased from 29 percent of all parishes to 34 percent.