Catholic Church in Guyana

The Catholic Church in Guyana is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Bishops in Guyana are members of Antilles Episcopal Conference. Like most other nations that form the AEC, the Apostolic delegate to the bishops' conference is also the Apostolic nuncio to the country, currently American archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson.

According to the 2012 census, Guyana has 52,901 Catholics, (7.08% of the total population).[1] The country forms a single diocese, the Diocese of Georgetown, established in 1956.

Figures in 2020 suggested that 8% of the population were Catholic.[2]

  1. ^ "Compendium 2: Population Composition" (PDF). statisticsguyana.gov.gy. July 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-25. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  2. ^ World Religion Database at the ARDA database, retrieved 2023-08-08