More than 220,000 people left the Catholic Church in Germany in 2020
More than 220,000 people left Catholic Church in Germany in 2020, according to official figures released on Wednesday.
The statistics issued by the German bishops’ conference on July 14 showed that 221,390 people exited the Catholic Church last year.
The figure was almost 19% lower than that of 2019 when a record 272,771 people departed. But it was higher than the 2018 figure of 216,078, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
Last year we reported that 10,744 people left the Church in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in 2019. For the first time in history, this number has exceeded 10,000 in the area.
Source: Catholic News Agency
