Campania (Catholic ecclesiastical region) explained

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

Statistics

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

This ecclesiastical region is made up of twenty-five dioceses:

• Metropolitan Archdiocese of Naples (ecclesiastical province), whose suffragan districts are:
  • Diocese of Acerra
  • Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo
  • Diocese of Aversa
  • Archdiocese of Capua
  • Diocese of Caserta
  • Diocese of Ischia
  • Diocese of Nola
  • Territorial Prelature of Pompei
  • Diocese of Pozzuoli
  • Diocese of Sessa Aurunca
  • Archdiocese of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia
  • Diocese of Teano-Calvi
• Metropolitan Archdiocese of Benevento (ecclesiastical province), whose suffragan districts are:
  • Diocese of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia
  • Diocese of Avellino
  • Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant'Agata de' Goti
  • Territorial Abbey of Montevergine
  • Archdiocese of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia
• Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno (ecclesiastical province), whose suffragan districts are:
  • Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni
  • Territorial Abbey of La Trinità della Cava
  • Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno
  • Diocese of Teggiano-Policastro
  • Diocese of Vallo della Lucania

Episcopal Conference of Campania

• 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

• Web site: Regioni ecclesiastiche italiane. https://web.archive.org/web/20040618222149/http://www.chiesacattolica.it/cci_new/PagineCCI/index.jsp?idPagina=4. dead. 18 June 2004. Chiesa Cattolica Italiana. CEI – Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. 1 June 2016. it.