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Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers, by J. J. Ziegler – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers, by J. J. Ziegler

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By J. J. Ziegler, Catholic World Report, May 21, 2026

J. J. Ziegler, who holds degrees in classics and sacred theology, writes from North Carolina.

 

Of the 175 dioceses for which diocesan seminarians are ordained, 22 have 40 or more seminarians—up from 19 dioceses the previous year.

3,035 diocesan seminarians are preparing for priestly ordination in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, an increase of nearly 2% over the previous year, according to data published in the most recent (2025) edition of The Official Catholic Directory.

Diocesan chancery offices supply statistics to the Directory, which also offers, as of January 1, 2025, an authoritative list of tax-exempt entities under the umbrella of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The statistics published in the 2025 edition of the Directory are thus over a year old; they do not take into account the men who were ordained in 2025 and the men who entered seminary in 2025. ….

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