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| Author | Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Secretary of State |
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| Language | Italian |
| Genre | Referenceyearbook |
| Publisher | Holy See |
Publication date | Annual publication (1912–) |
| Publication place | Vatican City |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| OCLC | 781198958 |
TheAnnuario Pontificio (Italian forPontifical Yearbook) is the annual directory of theHoly See of theCatholic Church. It lists thepopes in chronological order and all officials of the Holy See'sdepartments. It also provides names and contact information for allcardinals andbishops, thedioceses (with statistics about each), the departments of theRoman Curia, theHoly See's diplomatic missions abroad, theembassies accredited to the Holy See, the headquarters ofreligious institutes (again with statistics on each), certain academic institutions, and other similar information. The index includes, along with all the names in the body of the book, those of all priests who have been granted the title of "Monsignor".
The red-covered yearbook, compiled by theCentral Office of Church Statistics and published byLibreria Editrice Vaticana, is mostly in Italian. The 2015 edition had more than 2,400 pages and cost€78.[1]
According to thePontifical Yearbook of 2022, the number of Catholics in the world increased to 1,359,612,000 at the end of 2020.
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Ayearbook of the Catholic Church was published, with some interruptions, from 1716 to 1859 by the Cracas printing firm in Rome, under the titleInformation for the Year ... (Italian:Notizie per l'Anno ...) From 1851, a department of the Holy See began producing a different publication calledHierarchy of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church Worldwide (Italian:Gerarchia della Santa Chiesa Cattolica Apostolica Romana in Tutto L'Orbe), which took the titleAnnuario Pontificio in 1860 but ceased publication in 1870. This was the first yearbook published by the Holy See itself, but its compilation was entrusted to the newspaperGiornale di Roma. The Monaldi Brothers (Italian:Fratelli Monaldi) began in 1872 to produce their own yearbook entitledThe Catholic Hierarchy and the Papal Household for the Year ... (Italian:La Gerarchia Cattolica e la Famiglia Pontificia per l'Anno ...).[2]
TheVatican Press took over theGerarchia Cattolica in 1885, thus making it a semi-official publication. It bore the indication "official publication" from 1899 to 1904, but this ceased when, giving the word "official" a more restricted sense, theActa Sanctae Sedis, forerunner of theActa Apostolicae Sedis, was declared the only "official" publication of the Holy See. In 1912, it resumed the titleAnnuario Pontificio. From 1912 to 1924, it included not only lists of names, but also brief illustrative notes on departments of theRoman Curia and on certain posts within thepapal court, a practice to which it returned in 1940.
For some years, beginning in 1898, theMaison dela Bonne Presse publishing house ofParis produced a similar yearbook inFrench calledAnnuaire Pontifical Catholique, not compiled by the Holy See. This contained much additional information, such as detailed historical articles on theSwiss Guards and thePapal Palace at theVatican.
TheAnnuario Pontificio provides the Catholic Church's list ofpopes. As historical questions are reinterpreted by each successive pope, they are recognized in theAnnuario Pontificio. For example, the 1942Annuario Pontificio recognized the decisions of theCouncil of Pisa (1409), listing three popes for the period:Gregory XII (1406–1409),Alexander V (1409–1410), andJohn XXIII (1410–1415).[3] TheWestern Schism was reinterpreted whenPope John XXIII (1958–1963) chose to reuse the ordinal XXIII, citing "twenty-two Johns of indisputable legitimacy."[4] This was reflected in the 1963Annuario Pontificio, which treated Alexander V and the first John XXIII as antipopes.
Many churches try to obtain accurate ecclesiastical statistics by actively counting their congregants. TheAnnuario Pontificio superseded the FrenchAnnuaire pontifical catholique in providing global statistics on the Roman Catholic Church and arranges such data by diocese; theStatistical Yearbook of the Church arranges the same data by country and continent.[5]
According to theAnnuario Pontificio 2012 the statistical data given in the yearbook regardingarchdioceses anddioceses are furnished by the diocesan curias concerned and reflect the diocesan situation on 31 December of the year prior to the date on the yearbook, unless there is another indication. The data recorded are shown in the following order next to these abbreviations:
205. Gregorio XII, Veneto, Correr (c. 1406, cessò a. 1409, m. 1417) - Pont. a. 2, m. 6. g. 4. 206. Alessandro V, dell'Isola di Candia, Filargo (c. 1409, m. 1410). - Pont. m. 10, g. 8. 207. Giovanni XXII o XXIII o XXIV, Napoletano, Cossa (c. 1410, cessò dal pontificare 29 mag. 1415
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