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Suffragan territorial prelature Pompei, Italy

Diocese of Pompei

Pompeian(us) seu Beatissimae Virginis Mariae a SS.mo Rosario

Pompei is a Latin Rite territorial prelature in Campania, Italy, centered on the Marian shrine founded by Blessed Bartolo Longo and given its current prelature status in 1951. It is immediately subject to the Holy See and led by Archbishop-Prelate Tommaso Caputo, who serves as Pontifical Delegate.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei, in Pompei, Italy.

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Established
1926
Territory
2,000 km²

Parishes and churches

5 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Tommaso Caputo
Born
17 October 1950
Birthplace
Afragola

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The cathedral

Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei stands in Pompei, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Commissioned and co-founded by Bartolo Longo and his wife the Countess Mariana di Fusco, the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei (Italian: Pontificio Santuario della Beata Vergine del Santo Rosario di Pompei) stands in Pompei, Italy, as at once a Catholic cathedral, a Marian pontifical shrine, and a Pontifical minor basilica. It serves as the see of the Territorial Prelature of Pompei.