According to a Polish website, more than one in four of the ordinations of diocesan priests occurring in Europe take place in Poland. The following is an extract from the website.
One in four ordainments of Catholic diocesan priests in Europe takes place in Poland, according to data from the Polish Institute for Catholic Church Statistics.
Around 350 new Catholic priests have been ordained annually in Poland in the last few years, representing 26% of the total number in Europe, which was 1,272 in 2017, the last year for which data are available. The total number of ordainments worldwide in 2017 was 5,800.
These figures relate only to diocesan ordinations. It may be that the figures for the total number of ordinations would produce a different result. Nevertheless, these are surprising figures.
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