Campania (Catholic ecclesiastical region)
The ecclesiastical region 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: