Territorial Prelature of Pompei
Territorial Prelature of Pompei | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Italy |
Church region | Campania |
Ecclesiastical province | Naples |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Naples |
prelate | Tommaso Caputo |
Emeritus prelate | Carlo Liberati |
founding | 1926 |
surface | 12 km² |
Parishes | 5 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 26,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 25,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 96.2% |
Diocesan priest | 42 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 6 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 521 |
Permanent deacons | 4 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 10 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 110 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Italian |
cathedral | Santuario Basilica Pontificia della Madonna del Rosario |
Website | www.santuario.it |
The territorial prelature Pompei o Beatissima Vergine Maria del Santissimo Rosario ( Latin Praelatura Territorialis Pompeiana seu Beatissimae Virginis Mariae a Sanctissimo Rosario ) located in Italy was founded on March 20, 1926 under the name " Prelature Beatissima Vergine Maria del Santissimo Rosario" and received on March 8 , 1926 . May 1951 its current name. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Naples .
The lawyer Bartolo Longo had a church built here at the end of the 19th century and thus founded a pilgrimage to the Madonna of the Holy Rosary , which quickly enjoyed great popularity - as early as 1883, more than 20,000 pilgrims gathered at the pilgrimage site. After the handover to the Apostolic See and a further growth of the pilgrimage, the city of Pompei also became an independent ecclesiastical unit.
Prelates
- Carlo Cremonesi (1926–1928)
- Antonio Anastasio Rossi (1927-1948)
- Roberto Ronca (1948–1955)
- Aurelio Signora (1957–1977)
- Domenico Vacchiano (1978–1990)
- Francesco Saverio Toppi OFMCap (1990-2001)
- Domenico Sorrentino (2001-2003)
- Carlo Liberati (2003-2012)
- Tommaso Caputo (since 2012)