Overall, Catholics in Europe have
declined from 38.5 percent to 23.7 percent of the population since
1970, according to the World Christian Database compiled by the
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary of South Hamilton, Mass.
However, the church's relative
strength in Europe has declined sharply as the Catholic population
worldwide quadrupled over the past century to nearly 1.2 billion,
according to the Vatican's statistical yearbook for 2013.
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