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Can any one tell me which state has the largest concentration of Byzantine Rite Churches and which has the highest growth of Churches?

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If I had to guess, the most per capita would likely be in PA.

As to growth, I think a lot of that would be a function of where people moved to, and at one point, Florida - with its abundance of retiree related parish growth - may have been said to have been the most "growing" in the sense of new builds... but a lot of that was a function of "migration" of a sort.

A few years back when my priest was on vacation in the Sunshine state he concelebrated at a "new-build" UGCC parish that was only a few years old (if that) at the time. The parish population was largely (at that time) comprised of Canadian retirees who were refugees of the Canadian snow!

I am not certain of the demographics of growth if you are meaning "conversions" and young families. For a time, certain of the California parishes filled up with some Romans who (in retrospect) seemed to be "cooling their heels" in Byzantium - when the Summorum Pontificum came out liberalizing the old Latin Rite - which a lot of our visitors seemed to have a preference for - came out... Well a lot of folks seemed to disappear.

The Eparchy of Van Nuys has experienced demographic decline with the matter of "visitors going home" perhaps having an appreciable affect.

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Can any one tell me which state has the largest concentration of Byzantine Rite Churches and which has the highest growth of Churches?

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Pennsylvania has the most Byzantine (Catholic and Orthodox) churches of any state. I really don't know which church has the most growth. Someone else will have to chime in on that one.


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