Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Hypo-. a prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath. 2  Hypo-.
Confidence votes 25. St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. ***Actually, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC is larger than St. Patrick's in NYC. The National Shrine is the largest Roman Catholic church in the U.S., and one of the 10 largest Roman Catholic churches in the world.
CARA reported that there had been a boom in creating new parishes in the Northeast and Midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to meet the needs of the growing Catholic population in those areas, but those are not the regions with the largest Catholic populations today.