Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia

Roman Catholic archdiocese in Italy

Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia Archidioecesis Ravennatensis-Cerviensis

Ravenna Cathedral
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Ravenna-Cervia
Statistics
Area	1,185 km² (458 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2020) 219,100 (est.) 198,120 (est.)
Parishes	89
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1st century
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Ravenna
Co-cathedral	Cathedral of St. Peter, Cervia
Secular priests	64 (diocesan) 21 (Religious Orders) 13 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Lorenzo Ghizzoni
Bishops emeritus	Giuseppe Verucchi
Website
www.ravenna-cervia.chiesacattolica.it

The Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia (Latin: Archidioecesis Ravennatensis-Cerviensis) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church. It is a metropolitan see of the Latin Church, located in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.^[1]

The cathedral of the archdiocese is the Cathedral Basilica of the Resurrection of Our Lord in Ravenna. There is a co-cathedral in Cervia, the Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta [it] ('co‑cathedral of the Assumption of Santa Maria'), which had formerly been the Cervia Cathedral.^[2]^[3]

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Lorenzo Ghizzoni [it] as the metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese on 17 November 2012, in succession to Giuseppe Verucchi.^[4] Ghizzoni continues as the incumbent archbishop as of March 2024^[update]^[2]

History

The Archdiocese of Ravenna was a Roman Catholic diocese in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The diocese was elevated to an archdiocese in the 6th century.^[1] Among its famous archbishops are Saint Peter Chrysologus, a Doctor of the Church, and Saint Guido Maria Conforti, who was canonized as a saint in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI. The early medieval Ravenna papyri form an important record from the church's chancery between the 5th and 10th century.

The archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia was created in 1947 through the merger of the Archdiocese of Ravenna and the Diocese of Cervia.^[1] The archdiocese in 2014 had one priest for every 1,830 Catholics.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 13, 2017.^{[self-published source]}.
^ ^a ^b "Concattedrale di Cervia – S. Maria Assunta". Arcidiocesi di Ravenna-Cervia (in Italian). 16 October 2023.
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- Cocchi, Alessandra. "Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta a Cervia". Geometrie fluide (in Italian).
- "Diocesi di Cervia Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta". BEWEB: bene ecclesiastici in WEB (in Italian). 30 June 2017.
^ Holy See Press Office (17 November 2012). "Rinunce e Nomine: Rinuncia Dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Ravenna-Cervia (Italia) e Nomina del Succssore" [Resignations and Appointments: Resignation of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia (Italy) and Appointment of the Successor] (Press release) (in Italian). Vatican.