Unfortunately, I found no such figures on their website. The Congregation for Catholic Education (for Educational Institutions) ist the Vatican supervisory authority for the universities and could know the the figures for every university and the whole world. 7 students per year seems to me a minimum for regular teaching for a faculty. I believe Munich was in an extraordninary situation in these years and an average of ca. Acoording to these sources they gave about 7 licenses per year in Münster and no licenses at all in these years in Munich. The only information I found was a list of all license theses since 1990 in Münster and statistics of all degrees in 1998-2003 in Munich. I searched on the websites of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C, the Papal University Gregoriana in Rome, the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. The universities know how many graduate with this degree. To find out how many canon lawyers exist means to find out how many people got a license in coanon law. How many of them are there? Ask the universities In this answer I will do the same and use the terms "canon lawyer" and "canonist" in a synonymous way. One of your sources and EWTN use the term for someone who has an license in canon law (academic degree). As I am from Germany I have no idea in which way the term "canon lawyer" is used. According to Wikipedia the word "lawyer" is inconsistently used in the English speaking world. I am not sure what kind of persons you mean when you say "canon lawyer". If you have access to any of the data I claim to have no access or any other useful data or suggestions for extrapolations, please write a comment. My answer is hardly based upon poor database, wild speculations and extrapolations. I just want to highlight a great resource on what exactly a Canon Lawyer is and what they do and don't do:. Your own opinion on if that is enough is not really what I'm looking for. I'm looking for some analysis on their distribution and if that is enough to be effective. The question title asks for a number, but you're not going to get the green check mark that easily. But are there currently enough Canon Lawyers to effectively serve the Church in the USA? What about the rest of the world? However, with such a vital role in the Church's governance, how available are they really to the dioceses that need them? What about the laity? It seems like you can hire them, which I did not expect when I first looked into this, and their prices are about what you'd expect for a lawyer. It seems becoming a Canon Lawyer is probably one of the largest educational undertakings in existence. In fact, I've never met one and 19 out of 20 times I see the phrase "canon lawyer" it is usually in the form "I am not one". To me, it seems Canon Lawyers are hard to come by.
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