How many female Catholics are there?

Women constitute the majority of members of consecrated life in the Catholic Church: in 2010, there were around 721,935 professed women religious.

Who was the first female Catholic priest?

Olga Lucía Álvarez As a child, Olga Lucía Álvarez would play pretend procession and reenact mass services with her siblings. Despite resistance from the official church in Rome, the 77-year-old Colombian woman was ordained the first female catholic priest and bishop in Latin America.

Who is the head of the Catholic Church in South Africa?

Archbishop Dabula Anthony Mpako Leadership: Archbishop Dabula Anthony Mpako appointed 30 April 2019.

Can a female be a priest?

There is at least one organization that, without Church authority, calls itself Roman Catholic that ordains women as priests at the present time, Roman Catholic Womenpriests; and several independent Catholic jurisdictions have been ordaining women in the United States since approximately the late 1990s.