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Patron Saint: Our Lady Help of Christians (May 24)

Saints: 1 Saint

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Continent: Oceania

Capital: Canberra

Area: 7,682,300 km²

Population: 23,232,413

Dependencies: Christmas Island , Cocos Islands , Heard Island and McDonald Islands , Norfolk Island

Neighbouring Countries: ↖ Cocos Islands , ↖ Christmas Island , ↖ Indonesia , ↑ Timor-Leste , ↑ Papua New Guinea , ↗ Vanuatu , → New Caledonia , ↘ New Zealand

Religions: Protestant 23.1% (Anglican 13.3%, Uniting Church 3.7%, Presbyterian and Reformed 2.3%, Baptist 1.5%, Pentecostal 1.1%, Lutheran .7%, other Protestant .5%), Roman Catholic 22.6%, other Christian 4.2%, Muslim 2.6%, Buddhist 2.4%, Orthodox 2.3% (Eastern Orthodox 2.1%, Oriental Orthodox .2%), Hindu 1.9%, other 1.3%, none 30.1%, unspecified 9.6%

Languages: English 72.7%, Mandarin 2.5%, Arabic 1.4%, Cantonese 1.2%, Vietnamese 1.2%, Italian 1.2%, Greek 1%, other 14.8%, unspecified 6.5%

Ethnic Groups: English 25.9%, Australian 25.4%, Irish 7.5%, Scottish 6.4%, Italian 3.3%, German 3.2%, Chinese 3.1%, Indian 1.4%, Greek 1.4%, Dutch 1.2%, other 15.8% (includes Australian aboriginal .5%), unspecified 5.4%

Area: 7,741,220 km²

Catholic Population: 7,292,000 Catholics (27.4% of 26,649,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 1,347 parishes, 12 mission stations (1 with resident priest, 11 without resident priest), 377 other centres

Clergy: 71 bishops (29 diocesan, 42 titular), 2,788 priests (1,740 diocesan, 1,048 religious), 204 permanent deacons (200 diocesan, 4 religious)

Non-Clergy: 4,328 religious (588 brothers, 3,740 sisters), 28 members of secular institutes (sisters), 304 major seminarians, 130 missionaries, 6,154 catechists