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The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide, as of 2017^[update].^[1]

Lists

General

Saints, and martyrs

Clergy

Episcopacy

By nationality

List of Chinese Catholics
List of Catholics from Nordic countries – for Catholics in a region with a low percentage of them

By occupation

List of Catholic scientists
List of Catholic artists – for Catholic painters and artists
List of Catholic musicians – for hymn writers and religious music
List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
List of Catholic authors – for Catholic authors, editors, and TV, film, and screenwriters

By organisational membership

See also

References

^ "Presentation of the Pontifical Yearbook 2019 and the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2017". Holy See Press Office. 6 March 2019. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.

Organizations of lay members of the Catholic Church who are neither in holy orders nor members of religious institutes

Personal ordinariates,
prelatures, and apostolic
administrations

Confraternities

Archconfraternities	Archconfraternity of the Holy Family Archconfraternity of the Most Precious Blood
Types	Confraternities of the Cord Confraternity of Penitents Flagellant confraternities Purgatorial society
Individual	Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Confraternity of Catholic Saints Confraternity of the Rosary Bona Mors Confraternity Children of Mary of the Sacred Heart Hospitalité Notre Dame de Lourdes Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady Penitentes Penitential Brotherhood of the Holy Eucharist Society of the Holy Name Ven. Arc. Misericordia di Florence RVISSM

International
associations
of the faithful

Other associations
of the faithful

Movements

See also

Charities	Aid to the Church in Need Caritas Catholic Charities Home Missions CNEWA Relief Services CIDSE Pax Christi Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

Catholic Church

History
(Timeline
Ecclesiastical
Legal)

Early Church	Jesus Ministry Crucifixion Resurrection Great Commission Apostles Succession Petrine primacy Church fathers Apostolic fathers History of the papacy Primacy
Great Church	Ante-Nicene period Constantine First seven ecumenical councils Nicaea I Chalcedon Late antiquity Biblical canon Monasticism
Middle Ages	Islamic conquests Pope Gregory I Papal States Schism (1054) Investiture Controversy Crusades Schism (1378) Inquisition Universities Scholasticism Age of Discovery
Modern era	Protestantism Protestant Reformation Catholic Reformation Trent Thirty Years' War Enlightenment French Revolution Nazism Vatican II Communism Sexual abuse scandal Islam COVID-19 pandemic

Theology
(Bible
Tradition
Catechism)

General	God Trinity Kingdom Body and soul Divine grace Dogma Nicene Creed Original sin Saints Salvation Sermon on the Mount Ten Commandments Vulgate Official Bible Sixtine Vulgate Sixto-Clementine Vulgate Nova Vulgata Worship
Ecclesiology	Communitas perfecta Councils Ecumenism Four marks One true church Catholic Infallibility Mystici Corporis Christi People of God Three states Subsistit in In canon law
Sacraments	Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Penance Anointing of the Sick Last rites Holy orders Matrimony
Mariology	Assumption History Immaculate Conception Mariology of the popes Mariology of the saints Mother of God Perpetual virginity Veneration See also: Josephology

Natural law
Moral theology
Personalism
Social teaching
Philosophers
Philosophy of canon law
See also:
Science
- Evolution
Separation of church and state
- Relations
- Politics

Organisation
(Hierarchy
Canon law
Laity
Precedence
By country)

Holy See (List of popes)	Pope Francis Ecumenical councils College of Cardinals List Advisers Roman Curia Dicasteries Synod of Bishops Properties
Vatican City	Index Outline Apostolic Palace Lateran Treaty Roman Rota St. Peter's Basilica Swiss Guard Vatican Museums
Polity (Holy orders)	Diocese Episcopal conference Eparchy Bishop Patriarch Major Primate Metropolitan Archbishop Diocesan Coadjutor Auxiliary Titular Emeritus Parish Priest Deacon
Consecrated life	Religious: Superior Abbot, Abbess General Provincial Prior, Prioress Grand master Brother Friar Monk Sister Nun Hermit Novice Master Oblate Postulant
Particular churches sui iuris	Latin Church Eastern Catholic Churches Albanian Armenian Belarusian Bulgarian Chaldean Coptic Croatian and Serbian Eritrean Ethiopian Georgian Greek Hungarian Italo-Albanian Macedonian Maronite Melkite Romanian Russian Ruthenian Slovak Syriac Syro-Malabar Syro-Malankara Ukrainian
Catholic liturgy	Eastern Catholic liturgy Alexandrian Antiochian Armenian Byzantine East Syriac West Syriac Malankara Latin Ambrosian Braga Mozarabic Roman Paul VI Tridentine Anglican Zaire

Religious orders,
institutes, societies

Associations
of the faithful

Categories