3935_Growing EAO Region, Statistics on 31st December 201

3935_Growing EAO Region
Statistics on 31st December 2015

March 10, 2016

By Fr. Stefano Vanoli, SDB

SDB statistics (2015, Dec. 31 updated)

Rome, Itlay, 8 March 2016 - Thanks to the hard and patient work of all 90 provincial secretaries, of Fr. Stefano Vanoli (Secretary General) and his predecessor Fr. Francesco Maraccani (until last July 2002 was for 18 years the Secretary General and until last October 2015 was the Procurator General of the Congregation) – we have finally the SDB statistics update to the 31st December 2015.

Our EAO region is among the three growing Regions of the Congregation together with Africa – Madagascar and South Asia, while the two Regions of America and two Regions of Europe are slightly diminishing in numbers.

Province 2014
Total		 2015
Total
Temp.		 2015
Total
Perp.		 2015
Total
SDB		 2015
Nov.		 2015
Total		 2014-
2015
Move
AUL 95 9 85 94 5 99 +4
CIN 113 11 101 112 0 112 -1
FIN 215 33 180 213 8 221 +6
FIS 118 29 87 116 5 121 +3
GIA 103 5 93 98 1 99 -4
ITM 214 82 116 198 17 215 +1
KOR 116 18 98 116 4 120 +4
MYM 83 37 43 80 7 87 +4
THA 90 9 83 92 0 92 +2
VIE 300 72 217 289 29 318 +18
EAO 1447 176 930 1408 76 1484 +47

Growing EAO Region - statistics on 31st December 2015

Simple overview of the above table shows the steadfast growth of our Region:

  • Total of 1408 professed Salesians and 76 novices = total of 1484 Salesians (increase of +47)
  • Total of 205 Salesian Brothers (L)
  • Total of 190 Salesian candidates to the priesthood (Sc)
  • Total of 711 Salesian priests (P)
  • Total of 12 Salesian bishops (E)

In the same time the Worldwide Salesian statistics show a decrease of 121 SDB

  • from the total of 15.153 SDB (2014) to the total of 15.032 SDB (2015).
  • Total number of professed SDB is 14.586 (including the 124 Salesian bishops)

The good news is the increase of Salesian novices – up to 446, backed with much less drop outs during the novitiate time than 10 years ago. In the same time we humbly acknowledge that our Congregation is blessed with the highest number of novices among all Catholic Church Congregations today.

According the specific categories of the confreres:

  • Salesian Brothers temporary professed: 214
  • Salesian Scholastics - temporary professed: 1968
  • Salesian Brothers – perpetually professed: 1491
  • Salesian Priests perpetually professed: 10.150
  • Salesian Permanent Deacons: 17
  • Salesian Scholastics perpetually professed: 615