Bishop of Ravenna

This page is a list of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ravenna and, from 1985, of the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia.[1][2] The earlier ones were frequently tied to the Exarchate of Ravenna. (The city also became the centre of the Orthodox Church in Italy in 1995.)

Diocese of Ravenna (1st – 6th)

• St. Apollinare, legendarily to 79, historically in the era of Septimius Severus
• St. Aderito (Aderitus)
• St. Eleucadio (Eleucadius)
• St. Marciano (Marcian) — died c. 127 — feast day May 22.
• St. Calogero (Calocerus)
• St. Proculo (Proculus)
• St. Probo I (Probus I) — died 175
• St. Dato (Datus)
• St. Liberio I (Liberius I)
• St. Agapito (Agapitus)
• St. Marcellino (Marcellinus)
• St. Severo (Severus) (c. 308–c. 348)
• St. Liberio II (Liberius II)
• St. Probo II (Probus II)
• Fiorenzio (Florentius)
• Liberio III (Liberius III) (c. 380–c. 399)
• St. Urso (Ursus) (c. 399–c. 426), who built the original basilica to the Resurrection of Our Lord (called Anastasis in the Byzantine period)
• St. Pietro I Crisologo (c. 426–c. 450)
• Neone (c. 450–c. 473)
• Esuperantio (Exuperantius) (c. 473–c. 477)
• Giovanni I Angelopte (c. 477–494)[3]
• Pietro II (494–519)
• Aureliano (Aurelian) (519–521)
• Ecclesio (Ecclesius) (522–532) — started construction of San Vitale and is represented in the church's apse mosaic[4]
• St. Ursicino (Ursicinus) (533–536) — ordered the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe to be built[4]
• Vittore (Victor) (538–545) — noted on monograms on capitals in San Vitale[4]

Archdiocese of Ravenna (6th century – 1947)

6th century

• Massimiano (Maximianus) (546–556) — after whom the Throne of Maximianus is named, 27th bishop, he was the first archbishop.[4]
• Agnello (Agnellus) (556–569)[5]
• Pietro III the Elder (569–578)
• Giovanni II the Roman (578–595)
• Mariniano (595–606)

7th century

• Giovanni III (607–625)
• Giovanni IV (625–c. 631)
• Bono (Bonus) (c. 631–c. 644)
• Mauro (Maurus) (c. 644–c. 671)
• Reparato (Reparatus) (c. 671–c. 677)
• Teodoro (Theodore) (c. 677–c. 691)
• Damiano (c. 692–c. 709)

8th century

• St. Felice (c. 709–c. 725)
• Giovanni V (c. 726–c. 744)
• Sergius (c. 744–c. 769)
• Leo I (c. 770–c. 777)
• Giovanni VI (c. 777–c. 784)
• Grazioso (Gratiosus) (c. 785–c. 789)
• Valerius (c. 789–c. 810)

9th century

• Martino (c. 810–c. 818)
• Petronace (c. 818–c. 837)
• Giorgio (c. 837–c. 846)
• Deusdedit (c. 847–c. 850)
• Giovanni VII (c. 850–878)
• Romano di Calcinaria (Romanus) (878–888)
• Deusdedit (889–898)

10th century

• Giovanni VIII Kailone (898–904)
• Giovanni IX da Tossignano (905–914)
• Costantino (914–926)
• Peter IV (927–971)
• Onesto (971–983)
• Giovanni X di Besate (983–998)
• Gerberto da Aurillac (Gerbertus) (998–999)

11th century

• Leo II (999–1001)
• Federico (1002–1004)
• Etelberto (1004–1014)
• Arnoldo di Sassonia (Arnoldus) (1014–1019)
• Eriberto (1019–1027)
• Gebeardo da Eichstätt (Bebhardus) (1027–1044)
• Witgero (1044–1046)
• Unfrido (Hunfredus) (1046–1051)
• Giovanni Enrico (1051–1072)
• Guiberto da Ravenna (1072–1100)

12th century

• Ottone Boccatortia (1100–1110)
• Geremia (1110–1117)
• Filippo (1118)
• Gualtiero (1119–1144)
• Mose da Vercelli (1144–1154)
• Anselm of Havelberg (Anselmo da Havelberg; 1155–1158)
• Guido di Biandrate (1159–1169)
• Gerardo (1169–1190)
• Guglielmo di Cauriano (1190–1201)

13th century

• Alberto Oselletti (1201–1207)
• Egidio de Garzoni (1207–1208)
• Ubaldo (1208–1216)
• Piccinino (1216)
• Simeone (1217–1228)
• Teoderico (1228–1249)
• Filippo da Pistoia (1251–1270)
• vacant
• Bonifacio Fieschi di Lavagna (1274–1294)
• Obizzo Sanvitale (1295–1303)

14th century

• St. Rinaldo Concoreggi (1303–1321)
• Rinaldo da Polenta (1321–1322)
• Aimerico di Chastellux (1322–1332)
• Guido de Roberti (1332–1333)
• Francesco Michiel (1333–1342)
• Nicola Canal (1342–1347)
• Fortanerius Vassalli (1347–1351)
• St. Silas Abba (1352–1361)
• Petrocino Casalesco (1362–1369)
• Pietro Pileo di Prata (1370–1387)
• Cosimo de' Migliorati (1387–1400)

15th century

• Giovanni Nicolai de' Migliorati (1400–1405)
• Tommaso Perendoli (1411–1445)
• Bartolomeo Roverella (1445–1475)
• Filiasio Roverella (1475–1516)

16th century

• Niccolò Fieschi (1516–1517)
• Urbano Fieschi (1517–1521)
• Pietro de Accolti de Aretio (25 June 1524 Appointed – December 1524 Resigned)
• Benedetto de Accolti (17 August 1524 Appointed – died 21 September 1549)
• Ranuccio Farnese (11 October 1549 – 28 April 1564)
• Giulio della Rovere (1566 Appointed – died 3 September 1578)
• Cristoforo Boncampagni (1578–1603)

17th century

• Pietro Aldobrandini (1604 Appointed – died 10 February 1621)
• Luigi Capponi (3 March 1621 Appointed – 18 September 1645 Resigned)
• Luca Torreggiani (1645–1669)
• Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni died (19 May 1670 Appointed – 19 February 1674 Resigned)[6]
• Fabio Guinigi (1674–1691)[6]
• Raimondo Ferretti (1692–1719)[6]

18th century

• Girolamo Crispi (1720–1727)[6]
• Maffeo Nicola Farsetti (1727–1741)[6]
• vacant
• Ferdinando Romualdo Guiccioli (1745–1763)
• Nicola Oddi (1764–1767)
• Antonio Cantoni (1767–1781)
• vacant
• Antonio Codronchi (1785–1826)

19th century

• Clarissimo Falconieri Mellini (3 July 1826 Appointed – died 2 April 1859)
• Enrico Orfei (23 March 1860 Appointed – died 22 December 1870)
• Vincenzo Moretti (27 October 1871 Appointed – 22 September 1879 Resigned)
• Giacomo Cattani (22 September 1879 Appointed – died 14 February 1887)
• Sebastiano Galeati (23 May 1887 Appointed – died 25 January 1901)

20th century

• Agostino Gaetano Riboldi (15 April 1901 Appointed – died 25 April 1902)
• St. Guido Maria Conforti (9 June 1902 Appointed – 12 October 1904 Resigned); canonized in 2011
• Pasquale Morganti (14 November 1904 Appointed – died 18 December 1921)
• Antonio Lega (18 December 1921 Succeeded – died 16 November 1946)

Archdiocese of Ravenna and Cervia (1947–1986)

• Giacomo Lercaro (31 January 1947 Appointed – 19 April 1952), appointed Archbishop of Bologna
• Egidio Negrin (24 May 1952 Appointed – 4 April 1956), appointed Archbishop (Personal Title) of Treviso)
• Salvatore Baldassarri (3 May 1956 Appointed – 29 November 1975 Resigned)

Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia (1986–present)

• Ersilio Tonini (22 November 1975 Appointed – 27 October 1990 Retired) (see name changed in 1986; became Cardinal after retirement)
• Luigi Amaducci (27 October 1990 Appointed – 9 March 2000 Retired)
• Giuseppe Verucchi (9 March 2000 Appointed – )

See also

• Timeline of Ravenna

Notes

1. "Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 13, 2017
2. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ravenna–Cervia" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 13, 2017
3. Andreas Agnellus lists only one bishop of Ravenna with this name in the 5th century. Although Agnellus mistakenly assigns events dated to the earlier part of the century to John's office, John's surviving epitaph (CIL 11, 304) states he was bishop 16 Years, ten months and 18 days, and was buried 5 June 494
4. Dates according to Andreescu-Treadgold, Treadgold Procopius and the imperial panels of S. Vitale
5. Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), p. 30
6. Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 329. (in Latin)

Sources

• Martindale, John R.; Jones, A.H.M.; Morris, John (1992), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: AD 527–641, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-20160-8

External links

• Catholic Encyclopaedia