Korean priests exceed 3000 (Korea).Seoul--A new study shows that, as of May 1998, 3034 Korean men are presently ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. . The first priest in Korea came from China in 1794. On his arrival he found 4,000 Catholics who had never seen a priest; they had been converted and baptized bap·tize v. bap·tized, bap·tiz·ing, bap·tiz·es v.tr. 1. To admit into Christianity by means of baptism. 2. a. To cleanse or purify. b. To initiate. 3. by Japanese or Chinese lay persons. By 1801 there were 10,000 Catholics. The first Western missionaries came from France in 1836. After this there were 15,000 Catholics in 1857; 23,000 in 1866; 166,000 in 1911; and 628,000 in 1964. Thirty-four years later the number was 3,676,000. The seed of this harvest was the blood of martyrs
tr.v. can·on·ized, can·on·iz·ing, can·on·iz·es 1. To declare (a deceased person) to be a saint and entitled to be fully honored as such. 2. To include in the biblical canon. 3. in 1984. In 1857 there were 7 priests; in 1866, 12; in 1964, 338. The last thirty years therefore have witnessed almost a tenfold tenfold Adjective 1. having ten times as many or as much 2. composed of ten parts Adverb by ten times as many or as much Adj. 1. increase to 3,034. The study expects that there will be 4,000 priests by 2004, most of them young. In 1998 there were also 7,854 women religious. There are no religious statistics available from North Korea. |
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