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Patron Saint: Our Lady of Sorrows

Saints: 8 Saints, 8 Blesseds

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Continent: East Europe

Capital: Bratislava

Area: 48,105 km²

Population: 5,445,829

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Austria , ↖ Czechia , ↑ Poland , → Ukraine , ↓ Hungary

Religions: Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 8.2%, Greek Catholic 3.8%, other or unspecified 12.5%, none 13.4%

Languages: Slovak (official) 78.6%, Hungarian 9.4%, Roma 2.3%, Ruthenian 1%, other or unspecified 8.8%

Ethnic Groups: Slovak 80.7%, Hungarian 8.5%, Romani 2%, other 1.8% (includes Czech, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish), unspecified 7%

Area: 49,012 km²

Catholic Population: 4,025,000 Catholics (73.7% of 5,460,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 1,562 parishes, 118 other centres

Clergy: 22 bishops (11 diocesan, 11 titular), 3,012 priests (2,402 diocesan, 610 religious), 33 permanent deacons (31 diocesan, 2 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,952 religious (102 brothers, 1,850 sisters), 264 members of secular institutes (3 brothers, 261 sisters), 264 major seminarians, 1 missionary, 1,920 catechists