Report documents aging of US women religious
July 28, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Supplementing data made public earlier this week, the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a statistical report.
Page 4 presents a detailed age distribution of numbers of men and women religious in the US as of December 31, 2022, who belong to congregations assisted by the NRRO. There are 380 women’s institutes with 24,965 members, and 126 men’s institutes with 7,270 members. Over half of women religious—13,621 out of 24,965—are 80 or over.
There are 1,788 religious under the age of 40: 944 women and 844 men. There are more religious sisters who are 95 or over (1,052) than there are under the age of 40 (944).
There are an additional 19,029 men and women who belong to congregations not assisted by the NRRO, for a total of 51,264 sisters, religious-order priests, and brothers in the United States (as of December 31, 2022).
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