Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani
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The Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani (English: Association of Italian Catholic Guides and Scouts, AGESCI) is a Catholic Scouting and Guiding association in Italy. It is coeducational and, as of 2022, has 183,925 members, including 33,268 leaders (of whom 2,095 priests), 1,933 local groups and 6,287 units,[1] making it the country's largest Scout association.
Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani | |||
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Association of Italian Catholic Guides and Scouts | |||
Headquarters | Piazza P. Paoli, 18 00186 Rome | ||
Country | Italy | ||
Founded | 1974 | ||
Membership | 183,925[1] (2022) | ||
Chief Scout | Fabrizio Marano[2] (Calabria) | ||
Chief Guide | Daniela Ferrara[2] (Sicily) | ||
Presidents of the National Committee |
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Ecclesiastical Assistant | Roberto Del Riccio SJ[2] (Emilia-Romagna/Campania) | ||
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Website www.agesci.it | |||
Scouting portal |
AGESCI was formed in 1974 upon the merger of the Associazione Scouts Cattolici Italiani (ASCI, founded in 1916) and the Associazione Guide Italiane (AGI, founded in 1943). Some ASCI and AGI leaders, who had disagreed with the merger (and, above all, opposed the principle of coeducation) and had refused to join AGESCI, formed the Associazione Italiana Guide e Scouts d'Europa Cattolici (AIGSEC/FSE) in 1976, along with disgruntled members of the early AGESCI.
Since 1986, AGESCI has formed, along with the 12,000-strong non-denominational Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori ed Esploratrici Italiani (CNGEI),[3] the Italian Scout Federation (FIS), Italy's national member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
The Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft (SP), a Catholic association in German-speaking South Tyrol,[4] and the Slovenska Zamejska Skavtska Organizacija (SZSO), serving Slovenes in Friuli-Venezia Giulia,[5] are AGESCI affiliates, albeit not members.
In 1986 Pope John Paul II was given the Wood Badge insignia as honorary AGESCI leader.