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Patron Saint: Our Lady of Assumption

Saints: 1 Blessed

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Catholic Population: 3,907,000 Catholics (6.5% of 60,143,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 827 parishes, 1,601 mission stations (60 with resident priest, 1,541 without resident priest), 116 other centres

Clergy: 38 bishops (23 diocesan, 15 titular), 1,198 priests (616 diocesan, 582 religious), 267 permanent deacons (266 diocesan, 1 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,951 religious (131 brothers, 1,820 sisters), 89 members of secular institutes (6 brothers, 83 sisters), 510 major seminarians, 503 missionaries, 11,368 catechists

Area: 1,214,470 km²

Population: 54,841,552

Religions: Protestant 36.6% (Zionist Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%), Catholic 7.1%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1%

Languages: isiZulu (official) 22.7%, isiXhosa (official) 16%, Afrikaans (official) 13.5%, English (official) 9.6%, Sepedi (official) 9.1%, Setswana (official) 8%, Sesotho (official) 7.6%, Xitsonga (official) 4.5%, siSwati (official) 2.5%, Tshivenda (official) 2.4%, isiNdebele (official) 2.1%, sign language 0.5%, other 1.6%

Ethnic Groups: black African 80.2%, white 8.4%, colored 8.8%, Indian/Asian 2.5%

Motto: (Unity in Diversity)