They are a small part of the pastoral activity currently undertaken by the Church
PARISHES
PRIESTS
CATECHISTS
MONASTERIES
CLOISTERED NUNS/MONKS
2012
22,795
19,347
109,334
860
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2013
23,098
19,163
106,512
865
10,899
2014
23,071
18,813
104,995
819
9,153
2015
22,999
18,576
101,751
827
9,154
2016
23,019
18,164
105,662
812
9,322
2017
23,021
17,754
100,973
801
9,202
2018
22,997
17,337
102,859
783
9,151
2019
22,993
16,960
96,470
751
8,739
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Through the pastoral activity the Church is also engaged in the personal care and accompaniment of the faithful in their day-to-day and in the most essential moments of their lives.
This accompaniment takes place in parishes and other places such as hospitals, care homes, prisons, charity institutions, family and children’s care centres, immigrant care centres, etc.
The pastoral activity, part of the Church’s missionary zeal, is a response to our country’s most specific and diverse realities: migrants (immigrants and emigrants), refugees, street workers, children and youths at risk, young people, Roma people, apostleship of the sea, pastoral care on the road, in fairs and in circuses as well as international students far from their country, care and accompaniment of families, religious care to both the sick and their families in hospitals and to healthcare personnel.
In the parishes, pastoral work centres most especially on children and young people, on married couples, on the catechumenate of adults and on the elderly.