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===1922 census=== [[File:Christian sects in Palestine from the 1922 Palestine census.png|thumb|left|Christian sects in Palestine from the [[1922 census of Palestine]]]] In the [[1922 census of Palestine]] there were approximately 73,000 Christian Palestinians: 46% Orthodox, 40% Catholic (20% Roman Catholic, and 20% [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern Catholic]]). The census recorded over 200 localities with a Christian population.<ref name="Census1922">{{cite book |editor=J. B. Barron |title=Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |publisher=Government of Palestine |year=1923 |at=Tables XIIโXVI}}</ref> The totals by denomination for all of Mandatory Palestine were: [[Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem|Greek Orthodox]] 33,369, [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox (Jacobite)]] 813, [[Latin Church|Latin Catholic]] 14,245, [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholic (Melkite)]] 11,191, [[Syriac Catholic Church|Syriac Catholic]] 323, [[Armenian Catholic Church|Armenian Catholic]] 271, [[Maronite]] 2,382, [[Armenian Apostolic Church|Armenian Orthodox (Gregorian)]] 2,939, [[Coptic Church]] 297, [[Abyssinian Church]] 85, Church of England 4,553, Presbyterian Church 361, Protestants 826, Lutheran Church 437, [[Templars Community]] 724, others 208.<ref name="Census1922"/> The census also listed 10,707 Palestinian Christians living abroad, making up the largest portion of the Palestinians living abroad at the time: 32 in [[Australia]], 17 in [[Africa]], 1 in [[Austria]], 1 in [[Belgium]], 1 in [[Bulgaria]], 2 in [[Canada]], 242 in [[Egypt]], 34 in [[France]], 59 in [[Germany]], 1 in [[Greece]], 7 in [[Italy]], 4 in [[Morocco]], 1 in [[Iraq|Mesopotamia]], 1 in [[Paraguay]], 5 in [[Iran|Persia]], 4 in [[Russia]], 1 in [[South Africa]], 11 in [[East Africa]], 7 in [[Sudan]], 6 in [[Sweden]], 1 in [[Switzerland]], 2 in [[Spain]], 122 in [[Syria]], 95 in [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]], 8,517 in [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]]n republics, 17 in [[Turkey]], 6 in the [[United Kingdom]], 1,352 in the [[United States]], and 158 whose locations were unknown.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |title=Palestine Census (1922)}}</ref>
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