Church province of Campobasso-Boiano
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Country | Italy |
Church region | Abruzzo-Molise |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Campobasso-Boiano |
Suffragan dioceses | Isernia-Venafro , Termoli-Larino , Trivento |
Metropolitan | Giancarlo Maria Bregantini CSS |
surface | 4,518 km² |
Parishes | 226 ( AP2016 ) |
Residents | 351.800 ( AP2016 ) |
Catholics | 343.831 ( AP2016 ) |
proportion of | 97.7% |
Diocesan priest | 215 ( AP2016 ) |
Religious priest | 77 ( AP2016 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,178 |
Permanent deacons | 37 ( AP2016 ) |
Friars | 109 ( AP2016 ) |
Religious sisters | 214 ( AP2016 ) |
The ecclesiastical province of Campobasso-Boiano is one of the four ecclesiastical provinces of the ecclesiastical region of Abruzzo-Molise of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy .
history
The diocese of Boiano was founded in the 11th century and was a suffragan of Benevento . On June 29, 1927, the diocese of Boiano changed its name to Boiano-Campobasso and was raised as such on February 11, 1973 to the archbishopric with three suffragan dioceses.
structure
The following dioceses belong to the ecclesiastical province:
- Metropolitan Diocese of Campobasso-Boiano