Catholics in the Atlanta archdiocese continue to total a little more than two per cent of the total population, according to the 1969 Official Catholic Directory.

Nationwide, the Catholic total is 23.67 per cent.

In the Atlanta archdiocese, the northern 71 of the state’s 159 counties, there are 52,208 Catholics out of a total population of 22,524,400.

In the Savannah diocese, the state’s 88 southern counties, the Catholic percentage of the population is about the same, with 34,375 Catholics out of a population of 1,790,463.

Nationally, there are 47,873,238 Catholics out of a total population of about 2 million.

Other statistics gleaned form the directory show that there are 114 priests in the archdiocese, 62 diocesan and 52 religious, plus an archbishop and an abbot.

There are 21 brothers, 33 parishes, 27 missions, 9 stations, 28 chapels, 33 students in seminaries, 2 archdiocesan high schools with 1,233 students, 1 private high school with 486 students, 16 archdiocesan elementary schools with 5,279 students, 1 private elementary school with 131 students and a total of 16,072 students under Catholic instruction.

There are 250 full-time teachers, of whom 21 are priests, 126 nuns and 99 lay teachers.

There are three general hospitals with 577 beds treating 53,189 patients annually.

Also in the archdiocese, there were 1,857 baptisms, 1,437 of them infants. There were 643 marriages and 253 deaths.