The answer to this question is almost impossible, as some Catholic churches, while still be recognized as such, have been put to other uses or turned into museums. As well, there are chapels and many other such designations that function as a church building but which are not registered as such.
The closest statistic to your query is the number of parishes. In 2005 the number of parishes, with or without a resident pastor, numbered 270,125.
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Western Church:
Eastern Churches:
There is only one Catholic Church, but there are different types of Catholic churches such as the eastern rite. The Eastern Rite Catholic church uses icons (pictures) instead of statues, has the gated altar and speaks partly in Latin and partly in the common language of the location. They all acknowledge the Pope as the ruler of their church.
If the question is about church buildings, often simply called churches, there are probably hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic church buildings.
A bunch! Below is a link to the Wikipedia list of all the bishops, archbishops, and patriarchs of the Church. Every bishop of an archdiocese is an archbishop by default.
There may be a custodian and perhaps a secretary. But that would be about it.
There are 31 listings for Catholic Churches in the Bahamas, see the complete list at the link below.
the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church
All churches have catechisms. In the catholic, there is called a Cathechisms in the Catholic church.
a member of a catholic church,espesially roman churches
No, the Catholic Church is the Christian Church, the original Christian Church. The Episcopal Church is a Protestant Church and not Catholic. To be Catholic a Church must accept the pope as the leader of the Church as well as other Catholic doctrines. The Episcopal Church does not.
the catholic church and started a new church called the lutheran church
The Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church were once united. The Orthodox Churches separated from the Catholic Church over political and doctrinal differences.
I don't know if you should put it that way, try this: The Eastern Rite Churches are all part of the Catholic Church.
Like any churches, tithing in the Catholic church is an obligation to pay the bills. Unlike many other churches it is not aggressively enforced. They encourage to sacrifice 5% to 10% of your gross income.
There are many similarities between Catholic Churches and Church of England churches for the simple reason that all the original Church of England churches were Catholic Churches before they were stolen by King Henry VIII and appropriated for his new "church". They all contain an altar situated in a sanctuary, and a place for the people (called the nave). Many of them still contain a choir between the nave and the altar.
In that Catholic churches in the US are predominantly filled with Americans whereas in England, they are predominantly filled with Englishmen. This may sound like a flippant answer, but i assure you it is not. The whole point of the Catholic Church is that it is just that, Catholic. Catholic is a word which means universal and the Church is the same all over the world, excepting the cultural differences of the faithful in each country. One faith, one liturgy, one Church: many, many different people.
Catholic churches almost never use the label "Church of Christ," even though that is what they are. They avoid using this term only so as to avoid being confused with other denominations and communities of that or similar name already in existence, such as Churches of Christ; Independent Churches of Christ; International Churches of Christ; United Churches of Christ; United Churches of Christ, Congregational; Churches of Christ, Scientist; and Church of Christ, Instrumental. Catholic churces almost always have the word Catholic in their name.
There is only one pope for the entire Catholic Church.