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France sees record number of adult converts to the Catholic faith this year
This Easter will mark the fifth consecutive year of exponential increases in the number of people in France seeking to enter the Catholic Church.
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(LifeSiteNews) — The Conference of Bishops in France (CEF) has recorded the largest number of catechumens to be received or baptized into the Church since records began some twenty years ago. This year, 10,384 adults will be baptized during the Easter Vigil – a 45% increase on 2024.
ShutterstockNoticeable emerging patterns reveal younger generations and Muslims in France are leading the way – becoming interested in and converting to Catholicism at a quickening rate.
Official statistics corroborate with anecdotal reports to reveal the authenticity of growth in the French Church. On Ash Wednesday in 2025, an “unprecedented surge” in attendance at Mass across the country was reported in Catholic and secular media, led particularly by young adults.
“We shattered attendance records,” Father Benoist de Sinety told Famille Chrétienne.
The substantial growth in the number of converts France will witness in 2025 is not an anomaly. This Easter will mark the fifth consecutive year of exponential increases, indicating a snowballing trend. Each year, the hike in the number of people seeking to be baptized or received into the Catholic Church has been larger than the one prior.
This has continued to the point that 2025’s number of adult catechumens is now almost treble the number recorded in 2021, 3,639.
Between 2016 and 2020 figures remained relatively consistent and stagnant. Over the five years preceding France’s repeated spikes in conversions, they only ranged between 4,124 and 4,505 adult converts each year.
This decade’s contrasting growth should not be understood as making up for the deficit of a short-lived dip recorded in 2021, when 3,639 adults were baptized during the height of pandemic restrictions. This was the lowest recorded figure in recent times. However, numbers recovered the following year in 2022, followed by an unprecedented and sudden 21% increase in 2023. There was then a more dramatic 32% rise from that in 2024.
Nor is the flurry of French citizens seeking membership in the Church merely replacing childhood baptisms and confirmations. In 2024, some 5,000 adolescents were additionally received or baptized. Their numbers rose to 7,400 in 2025. Simultaneously, since 2019, France’s population increased only from 67.38 to 68.6 million; this means that the converts are joining the Church at a rate far surpassing France’s population growth.
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