About Us
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Fast Facts
Founded: 1974
Counties in the diocese: 21
Total priests: 251
Total diocesan priests: 158
Religious Order priests in the diocese: 64
Extern priests in the diocese: 29
Catholic Eastern Rite priests: 4
Religious: 162
- Brothers: 15
- Sisters: 147
Seminarians: 34
- In College: 17
- In Theology: 17
Total permanent deacons 57
Diocesan permanent deacons 46
Parishes: 68
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With diocesan priests: 58
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With religious order priests: 10
Eastern Catholic Rite parishes: 3
Missions: 6
Total diocesan schools: 41
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Diocesan elementary schools: 37
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Diocesan high schools: 4
Total private Catholic schools: 4
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Private elementary schools: 1
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Private high schools: 3
Baptisms and Professions of Faith: 8,020
Marriages: 1,407
Deaths: 2,365
Registered Catholics in the Arlington Diocese:
428,417
Registered Catholics In the Richmond Diocese:
228,704
Total Catholics registered in Virginia:
642,064
Population Totals (Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia):
Total population in the Arlington Diocese boundaries: 2,790,259
Total population in the Richmond Diocese boundaries: 4,984,210
Total population in the State of Virginia: 7.7 million
