  Analysis of INTEGRAL Core Program and public Open Time observations performed
up to April 2005 provides a sample of 62 active galactic nuclei in the 20-100
keV band above a flux limit of ~1.5x10^-11 erg/cm2/s. Most(42) of the sources
in the sample are Seyfert galaxies, almost equally divided between type 1 and 2
objects, 6 are blazars and 14 are still unclassified. Excluding the blazars,
the average redshift of our sample is 0.021 while the mean luminosity is Log(L)
= 43.45. We find that absorption is present in 65% of the objects with 14% of
the total sample due to Compton thick active galaxies. In agreement with both
Swift/BAT team results and 2-10 keV studies, the fraction of absorbed objects
decreases with the 20-100 keV luminosity. All Seyfert 2s in our sample are
absorbed as are 33% of Seyfert 1s. The present data highlight the capability of
INTEGRAL to probe the extragalactic gamma-ray sky and to find new and/or
absorbed active galaxies.
