The ecclesiastical region of Campania is one of the sixteen ecclesiastical regions of the Catholic Church in Italy. It consists of three ecclesiastical provinces, twenty-two dioceses, one territorial prelature, and two territorial abbeys. Its territory roughly corresponds with the Italian Republic homonymous region's one.
The ecclesiastical region today edit
Statistics edit
Area (km2): 13.879
Inhabitants: 5.911.843
Parishes: 1.821
Number of secular priests: 2261
Number of regular priests: 1307
Number of permanent deacons: 489
Subdivision edit
This ecclesiastical region is made up of twenty-five dioceses:
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Naples (ecclesiastical province), whose suffragan districts are:
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Benevento (ecclesiastical province), whose suffragan districts are:
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno (ecclesiastical province), whose suffragan districts are:
Episcopal Conference of Campania edit
- President: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Archbishop of Naples
- Vice President: Luigi Moretti, Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno
- Secretary: Antonio Di Donna, Bishop of Acerra
External links edit
- "Regioni ecclesiastiche italiane". Chiesa Cattolica Italiana (in Italian). CEI - Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. Archived from the original on 18 June 2004. Retrieved 1 June 2016.