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Patron Saints: Saint Boniface, Saint George, Saint Peter Canisius, Saint Ansgar

Saints: 183 Saints, 179 Blesseds

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Continent: West Europe

Capital: Berlin

Area: 348,672 km²

Population: 80,594,017

Former Name: East and West Germany

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ France , ← Luxembourg , ← Belgium , ↖ Netherlands , ↑ Denmark , ↑ Sweden , → Poland , ↘ Czechia , ↘ Austria , ↓ Switzerland

Religions: Roman Catholic 29%, Protestant 27%, Muslim 4.4%, Orthodox Christian 1.9%, other 1.7%, none or members of unrecorded religious groups 36%

Languages: German (official)

Ethnic Groups: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Polish, Italian, Romanian, Syrian, and Greek)

Area: 357,022 km²

Catholic Population: 24,403,000 Catholics (28.9% of 84,359,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 9,293 parishes, 36 mission stations (23 with resident priest, 13 without resident priest), 1,286 other centres

Clergy: 104 bishops (25 diocesan, 79 titular), 13,028 priests (9,939 diocesan, 3,089 religious), 2,748 permanent deacons (2,727 diocesan, 21 religious)

Non-Clergy: 16,566 religious (2,160 brothers, 14,406 sisters), 1,050 members of secular institutes (21 brothers, 1,029 sisters), 567 major seminarians, 861 missionaries, 8,360 catechists