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The Taoist Church of Italy (TCI for short; in Italian: Chiesa Taoista d'Italia, "CTI" for short) is a religious body of Taoism established in 2013 by Vincenzo di Ieso, a fourteenth-generation Taoist master of the Xuanwu school of the Wudang Mountains (武当玄武派 Wǔdāng Xuánwǔ pài), into which he was initiated in 1993 with the ecclesiastical name of Li Xuanzong.[1] Despite the founder's particular affiliation, the church intends to incorporate all forms of Taoism in Italy.[2] The establishment of the church has been defined by a scholar of religious rights as a "crucial event for both Taoism and religious freedom in Italy".[3]
- ^ La Chiesa Taoista d'Italia — classified by the CESNUR directed by Massimo Introvigne and Pierluigi Zoccatelli.
- ^ Sorvillo (2014), pp. 521–522, quoting the TCI's statute, articles 3.2 and 4.1.
- ^ Sorvillo (2014), p. 517.