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Show MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS IN U. S. Milwaukee. "Wis., Jan. 26. There are 14.235,451 Roman Catholics in the United States, according to the advance ad-vance sheet of the 1909 Wlltzlus offl-cial offl-cial Catholic directory, published in this city. The statistics are furnished Cby the archbishops and bishops of the United States, after the taking of a census in all dioceses. Added to the 14,235,451, the number of Catholics in tho Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaiian Islands, brings the grand total of the Catholics under the United States flag to 22,474,440, as compared with 12.053,000 Catholics subjects under the British flag. The Catholic population of some of the leading dioceses in the United States follow: Chicago, .1,150,000; St. Louis, 375.000; San Francisco, 250.000. |