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 : 13.879Inhabitants: 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, 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, 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, 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