Elevated were:
1 Archbishop See and 4 Dioceses in Metropolitan Headquarters,
1 Territorial Prelature and an Apostolic Vicariate in Bishopric,
2 Apostolic Exarchates to Eparchie.
From the Statistical Yearbook of the Church it emerges that:
- Catholics baptized in the world have increased by 6%. From 2013 to 2018, they went from almost 1,254 million to 1,329 million;
- the highest proportion is in the Americas with 63.7 Catholics per 100 inhabitants; Europe follows with 39.7 Catholics, Oceania with 26.3 and Africa with 19.4; the lowest incidence is in Asia with 3.3 Catholics per 100 inhabitants;
- the number of bishops has increased (from 5,173 in 2013 to 5,377 in 2018), but the number of priests decreased by 0.3%;
- the number of permanent deacons has increased by 10%;
- decreasing, the number of: professed non-priest religious (-8%), professed religious (-7.5%), seminarians (-2%).
