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Patron Saints: Saint Boniface, Saint George, Saint Peter Canisius, Saint Ansgar

Saints: 183 Saints, 178 Blesseds

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Continent: West Europe

Capital: Berlin

Area: 348,672 km²

Population: 80,594,017

Former Name: East and West Germany

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ France , ← Luxembourg , ← Belgium , ↖ Netherlands , ↑ Denmark , ↑ Sweden , → Poland , ↘ Czechia , ↘ Austria , ↓ Switzerland

Religions: Roman Catholic 29%, Protestant 27%, Muslim 4.4%, Orthodox Christian 1.9%, other 1.7%, none or members of unrecorded religious groups 36%

Languages: German (official)

Ethnic Groups: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Polish, Italian, Romanian, Syrian, and Greek)

Area: 357,022 km²

Catholic Population: 24,054,000 Catholics (28.9% of 83,155,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 9,957 parishes, 61 mission stations (47 with resident priest, 14 without resident priest), 1,216 other centres

Clergy: 110 bishops (27 diocesan, 83 titular), 13,951 priests (10,615 diocesan, 3,336 religious), 2,897 permanent deacons (2,869 diocesan, 28 religious)

Non-Clergy: 18,746 religious (2,341 brothers, 16,405 sisters), 1,131 members of secular institutes (20 brothers, 1,111 sisters), 641 major seminarians, 1,263 missionaries, 8,299 catechists