Territorial Prelature of Pompei
| Territorial Prelature of Pompei | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| 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)
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the pilgrimage church of Pompei (Italian)
- Entry on the Territorial Prelature of Pompei on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
