For those who may not be familiar with it, the Annuario Pontificio, or Pontifical Yearbook, is an annual publication of the Central Office of Church Statistics in the Vatican that offers remarkable details on the Holy See, the Roman Curia (or central government of the Church), bishops and dioceses all around the world, and even a listing of every monsignor currently in service. For those of us who follow the Church’s bureaucratic life, it is one of the year’s must have books, along with the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, the statistical book published every year by the Vatican Secretariat of State, that crunches the Catholic numbers for literally every region and country in the world.
