Catholic Church in the United States

Catholic Church in the United States
; Catholic Church in the United States;
	Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Type	National polity
Classification	Catholic
Orientation	Mainly Latin, with minority Eastern
Scripture	Bible
Theology	Catholic theology
Polity	Episcopal
Governance	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Pope	Francis
USCCB President	Timothy Broglio
Prerogative of Place	William E. Lori
Apostolic Nuncio	Christophe Pierre
Region	United States and other territories of the United States, excluding Puerto Rico.
Language	English, Spanish, French, Latin
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Congregations	16,429 (2022)
Members	72,000,000+ (2020)
Official website	usccb.org

With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018^[update], the Catholic Church is the country's second-largest religious grouping after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations.^[3] In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic.^[4] The United States has the fourth-largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.^[5]

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