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:

Episcopal Conference of Campania

  • "Regioni ecclesiastiche italiane". Chiesa Cattolica Italiana (in Italian). CEI - Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. Archived from the original on 18 June 2004. Retrieved 1 June 2016.

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