Bishop of Ravenna

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This page is a list of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ravenna, and (from 1985[1]) of the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia. 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)^[1]
• 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^[2]
• St. Ursicino (Ursicinus) (533—536) — ordered the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe to be built^[2]
• Vittore (Victor) (538—545) — noted on monograms on capitals in San Vitale^[2]

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.^[2]
• Agnello (Agnellus) (556—569) ^[3]
• 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 (archbishop of Ravenna) (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)
• Leone 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

• Leone 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)
• 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)
• vacant
• 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

• Niccolo Fieschi (1516—1517)
• Urbano Fieschi (1517—1521)
• Pietro de Accolti de Aretio (25 Jun 1524 Appointed — Dec 1524 Resigned)
• Benedetto de Accolti (17 Aug 1524 Appointed — 21 Sep 1549 Died)
• Ranuccio Farnese (11 Oct 1549 — 28 Apr 1564)
• Giulio della Rovere (1566 Appointed — 3 Sep 1578 Died)
• Cristoforo Boncampagni (1578—1603)

17th century

• Pietro Aldobrandini (1604 Appointed — 10 Feb 1621 Died)
• Luigi Capponi (3 Mar 1621 Appointed — 18 September 1645 Resigned)
• Luca Torreggiani (1645—1669)
• Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni † (19 May 1670 Appointed — 19 Feb 1674 Resigned)
• Fabio Guinigi (1674—1691)
• Raimondo Ferretti (1692—1719)

18th century

• Girolamo Crispi (1720—1727)
• Maffeo Nicola Farsetti (1727—1741)
• 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 Jul 1826 Appointed — 2 Apr 1859 Died)
• Enrico Orfei (23 Mar 1860 Appointed — 22 Dec 1870 Died)
• Vincenzo Moretti (27 Oct 1871 Appointed — 22 Sep 1879 Resigned)
• Giacomo Cattani (22 Sep 1879 Appointed — 14 Feb 1887 Died)
• Sebastiano Galeati (23 May 1887 Appointed — 25 Jan 1901 Died)

20th century

• Agostino Gaetano Riboldi (15 Apr 1901 Appointed — 25 Apr 1902 Died)
• St. Guido Maria Conforti (9 Jun 1902 Appointed — 12 Oct 1904 Resigned); canonized in 2011
• Pasquale Morganti (14 Nov 1904 Appointed — 18 Dec 1921 Died)
• Antonio Lega (18 Dec 1921 Succeeded — 16 Nov 1946 Died)

Archdiocese of Ravenna and Cervia (1947—1985)

• Giacomo Lercaro (31 Jan 1947 Appointed — 19 Apr 1952 Appointed), Archbishop of Bologna
• Egidio Negrin (24 May 1952 Appointed — 4 Apr 1956 Appointed), Archbishop (Personal Title) of Treviso)
• Salvatore Baldassarri (3 May 1956 Appointed — 29 Nov 1975 Resigned)

Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia (1985—present)

Ordinaries under the Archbishop

• Ersilio Tonini (22 Nov 1975 Appointed — 27 Oct 1990 Retired), Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus
• Luigi Amaducci (27 Oct 1990 Appointed — 9 Mar 2000 Retired), Archbishop Emeritus
• Giuseppe Verucchi (9 Mar 2000 Appointed — ), Archbishop

Notes

1. ^ Andreas Agnellus lists only one bishop of Ravenna with this name in the fifth 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
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Dates according to Andreescu-Treadgold, Treadgold Procopius and the imperial panels of S. Vitale
3. ^ Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), p. 30

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 978-0521201608, http://books.google.gr/books?id=fBImqkpzQPsC 

External links

• Catholic Encyclopaedia