Cervia Cathedral

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.

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.

Following the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI and in succession to Giuseppe Verucchi, Lorenzo Ghizzoni[it] has been the metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese since 17 November 2012.

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. 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. The archdiocese in 2014 had one priest for every 1,830 Catholics.

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Further reading

  • Agnellus, Andreas (1708); Bacchini, Benedetto (ed.) Agnelli Liber Pontificalis, sive; Vitæ Pontificum Ravennatum Mutinæ: Typis Antonii Capponii ..., MDCCVIII. (in Latin) Later editions 1723; in Patrologia Latina; and 2006
  • Pallotti, Riccardo (2015). In: Ravenna Studi e Ricerche, XXII (2015), fasc. 1 (gennaio-dicembre), pp. 155-198. (in Italian)

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  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Archdiocese of Ravenna". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.