The number of potential ordinands in the United States this year is up by 25 per cent from 2014.
According to US Conference of Catholic Bishops figures, there are 595 men in the “class of 2015”, up from 477 in 2014 and 497 in 2013.
The 2015 class of men to be ordained to the priesthood report that they were, on average, about 17years old when they first considered a vocation to the priesthood.
They were encouraged to consider a vocation by an average of four people.
Seven in 10 (71 per cent) say they were encouraged by a parish priest, as well as friends (46 per cent), parishioners (45 per cent), and mothers (40 per cent).
These figures were taken from a Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate survey of potential 2015 US ordinands, to which there were 411 respondents.
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