The Annuario Pontificio or Pontifical Yearbook is the annual directory of the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church. It lists all the popes to date, as well as all members of the College of Cardinals and bishops throughout the world. It also contains contact details for all Vatican institutions, including embassies and diplomatic missions attached to the Holy See, dioceses, and headquarters of religious orders and congregations. The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the Christian Church whose visible head is the Pope, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It teaches that it is the one holy catholic and apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ, and that the sole Church of Christ which in the... The pope is the Catholic Patriarch and Bishop of Rome, and leader of the Catholic Church. ... The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
The red-covered yearbook, compiled by the Vatican's Central Statistics Office, is mostly in Italian.
Although a statistical yearbook of the Vatican has been published since 1716, the publication took its present title Annuario pontificio only in 1860. In 1870 publication was halted, resuming in 1872 as Catholic Hierarchy. In 1885, for the first time, the Vatican Press took over publication of the yearbook. In 1912 it resumed the title Annuario pontificio. From 1924 the yearbook has no longer been described as an "official publication" of the Holy See.
The 2004 edition had 2,356 pages and cost 58 Euros.
There is no official list of popes, but the Annuariopontificio, published every year by the Vatican, contain a list that is generally considered to be the most authoritative.
A man elected in 752 and dead three days after was listed on this list as Stephen II, but he has been erased since the 1961 edition.
That would make a list of 266 popes, but other choices of the Annuariopontificio are far most questionable.
VATICAN (CWN) -- The AnnuarioPontificio, the annual directory of the worldwide Catholic Church, was formally presented to Pope John Paul II yesterday morning.
This year's edition of the Annuario includes a listing of the latest members of the College of Cardinals, who were elevated to that rank by the Pope on February 21.
The Annuario lists all of the 166 governments which enjoy full diplomatic relations with the Holy See, including those which established such ties during the past year: Angola, Guyana, and Libya.
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