Campania (Catholic ecclesiastical region)

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<br /> Inhabitants: 5.911.843<br /> Parishes: 1.821<br /> Number of secular priests: 2261<br /> Number of regular priests: 1307<br /> 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 ecclesiastical 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

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