RELIGION

Census 1911

988

Communes

Popula- tion

Communes

Popula- tion

Communes

Popula- tion

Napoli .

678,031

Perugia .

65,805

Lecce

36,222

Milano .

599,200

Pisa

65,232

Catanzaro

34,343

Roma .

542,123

Ancona .

63,100

Caserta .

33,189

Torino .

427,106

Cagliari .

60,101

Mantova ' .

32,657

Palermo

341,088

j Trapani .

59,593

Massa .

30,830

Genova

272,221 Bergamo

55,306

Ascoli Piceno .

30,618

Firenze

232,860 1 Novara .

54,571

1 Cuneo .

27,470

Catania

210,703 Vicenza .

54,555

Pesaro .

27,348

Bologna

172,628

Parma .

51,910

Girgenti

26,823

Venezia

160,719

Udine .

47,617

Chieti .

25,477

Messina

126,557

Arezzo .

47,504

Benevento

24,329

Livorno

105,315 ! Forli .

45,994

, Teramo ,

24,312

Bari

103,670

Salerno .

45,682

Cosenza .

24,177

Padova .

96,230

Como

44,132

Avellino

23,742

Ferrara

95,212

Reggio Calabria

43,162

Macerata

22,940

Brescia

83,338

Sassari .

43,118

Aquila .

21,942

Verona

81,909

Siena

41,673

Belluno .

20,687

Foggia .

76,680 ' Caltanissetta .

41,312

Potenza .

16,672

Lucca .*

76,160 Treviso .

41,022

I Campobasso .

14,361

Alessandria .

75,721 Siracusa.

40,835

Grosseto

12,442

Ravenna

71,581 ' Cremona

40,436

Rovigo .

12,224

Reggio Emilia

I 70,419 Pavia .

39,898

Sondrio .

9,117

Modena

70,923 Piacenza

38,542

Porto Maurizio

7,853

Religion.^

The Roman Catholic Church is, nominally, the ruling State religion of Italy ; but the power of the Church and clergy is subordinated to the civil government, and there is freedom of worship to the adherents of all recognised religions.

The census returns of 1901 were as follows : —

Profession

Total

Per cent.

Roman Catholic ....

31,539,863

97-12

Evangelical Protestant

65,595

0-20

Greek Church ....

2,472

0-01

Israelite .....

35,617

0-11

Other professions

338

—

Not professing any religion .

36,092

0-11

Not known

795,276

2-45

Total ....

32,475,253

100-00

Of the Protestants, 22,500 belonged to the Waldensian Church of Piedmont, about 10,000 to the other evangelical Italian Churches, and 30,000 to foreign Protestant bodies.

Under the Roman PontifiF, the Catholic episcopal hierarchy in Italy con- sists of 50 archbishoprics and 216 bishoprics, besides the 6 cardinal bishoprics

1 See also Rome, See and Church of.