” “About ten million devotees attended Mass in Spain in 2005: this is the finding announced yesterday, during the presentation by the Spanish Bishops Conference of the book called "The Catholic Church in Spain. Statistics. Edition 2007", processed by the Statistics and Sociology Office of the Church (Oesi). "Thinking of giving a portrait of the Catholic Church based on figures and statistics is an impossible mission", stated, during the presentation of the book, the spokesman and secretary general of the Spanish Bishops Conference, mgr. Juan Antonio Martín Camino, as reported by the Catholic Agency Veritas. According to the spokesman of the Spanish Bishops, "these statistics make Catholics humbly proud". The figure of about 10 million churchgoers, according to mgr. Martín Camino, gives a feeling of "stability and creativity of the Church, which is admirable". "In Spain he added there is no such social phenomenon, not even football". In Spain, there are 14 ecclesiastic provinces, 69 dioceses and one military bishopric; the ministry is practised by 5 cardinals, 9 archbishop, 52 bishops and 12 auxiliary bishops, plus 2 emeritus cardinals, 9 archbishops and 31 bishops.” “
