25 Minutes . . .

. . . or, the time it takes to administer communion at Yankee Stadium:

Communion to the 57,100 faithful went blessedly quick.

For the crowd at Pope Benedict XVI’s Mass at Yankee Stadium, participating in Communion — a highlight of the ceremony — posed a logistical nightmare.

To handle the crowd, however, the Archdiocese of New York dispatched 500 priests into the stands to distribute the blessed wafers, meaning more than enough priests for every section of the Stadium.

The distribution took less than 25 minutes. Worshippers in each small section were signaled to go down, row by row, to receive the host from the priest nearest them.

Though Benedict didn’t hand out each wafer — which after blessed is believed to represent the body of Christ — the pope did distribute Communion to the approximate 100 VIPs assembled on the field.

Among those receiving from the pope were Gov. Paterson.

Location Scout: Yankee Stadium.