Ecclesiastical region Campania

The Ecclesiastical region Campania is one of the sixteen ecclesiastical regions of the Catholic Church in Italy. Its territory 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

• "Regioni ecclesiastiche italiane". Chiesa Cattolica Italiana (in Italian). CEI - Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. Retrieved 1 June 2016.