Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bologna

Archdiocese of Bologna Archidioecesis Bononiensis Arcidiocesi di Bologna
Aerial view of Bologna Cathedral.
Location
Country	Italy
Statistics
Area	3,549 km2 (1,370 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 964,733 936,093 (97.0%)
Parishes	414 (14 deaneries)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	Diocese in 3rd century, Archdiocese in 1582
Cathedral	Bologna Cathedral
Patron saint	Saint Petronius
Secular priests	431
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Cardinal Carlo Caffarra
Vicar General	Giovanni Silvagni (vicar general) Gabriele Cavina (pro-vicar general)
Emeritus Bishops	Cardinal Giacomo Biffi (Archbishop Emeritus) Ernesto Vecchi (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus)
Website
www.bologna.chiesacattolica.it

Saint Petronius, bishop 431 – 450

Blessed Niccolò Albergati, bishop 1417 – 1443.

Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, then Pope Julius II, archbishop 1483 – 1499.

Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, first archbishop, 1582 – 1597.

Cardinal Scipione Borghese, archbishop 1610 – 1612.

Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, then Pope Benedict XIV, archbishop 1731 – 1754.

Cardinal Andrea Gioannetti, archbishop 1775 – 1800.

Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa, then Pope Benedict XV, archbishop 1907 – 1914.

The Archdiocese of Bologna is a Roman Catholic archbishopric in northern Italy, with the archiepiscopal seat in Bologna Cathedral. The current Archbishop is Cardinal Carlo Caffarra since 2003.^[1]

The archdiocese has the following suffragans:

• diocese of Imola
• diocese of Faenza-Modigliana
• archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio.

History

The bishopric of Bologna was founded in the 3rd century and raised to the level of an archbishopric on 10 December 1582.

Nine of the early bishops have been canonized, and three other bishops and three archbishops have been elected to the Papacy as Pope Innocent VII (1404), Pope Nicholas V (1447), Pope Julius II (1503), Pope Gregory XV (1621), Pope Benedict XIV (1740) and Pope Benedict XV (1914).

List of bishops and archbishops

The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops of Bologna from 313 to the present day.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Bishops

• Saint Zama (313)
• Saint Faustino (or Faustiniano) (342)
• Domiziano (?)
• Saint Teodoro I (?)
• Gioviano
• Saint Eusebio (370 ?)
• Eustasio (390?)
• Saint Felice (397 – died 431)
• Saint Petronius (431 – 450)
• Marcello
• Saint Parteniano
• Giuliano I
• Geronzio
• Lussorio (?)
• Saint Tertulliano (?)
• Saint Giocondo (496)
• Teodoro II (?)
• Clemente (?)
• Pietro I (?)
• Germano (?)
• Costantino (?)
• Giuliano II (?)
• Adeodato (?)
• Giustiniano (?)
• Luminoso (649)
• Donno (?)
• Vittore I (680)
• Eliseo (?)
• Gaudenzio (?)
• Causino (?)
• Barbato (736 – after 744)
• Romano (752 – after 756)
• Pietro II (786)
• Vitale (801)
• Martino I (?)
• Teodoro III (after 814 – 825)
• Cristoforo (827)
• Martino II (?)
• Pietro III (?)
• Orso (?)
• Giovanni I (880 – 881)
• Severo (884 – after 898)
• Pietro IV (? – died 905)
• Giovanni II (?)
• Alberto (after 955 – 983)
• Giovanni III (before 997 – 1007)
• Frogerio (after 1019 – Resigned 1028)
• Alfredo (after 1031 – 1055)
• Lamberto (after 1062 – after 1074)
• Gerardo I (1079 – 1089)
• Bernardo (1096 – died 15 April 1104)
• Vittore II (1108 – died 1129)
• Enrico I (1130 – died July 1145)
• Gerardo Grassi (1148 – died 8 August 1165)
• Giovanni IV (1169 – died 15 January 1187)
• Gerardo di Gisla (1187 – died 1198)
• Gerardo Ariosti (1198 – resigned 1213)
• Enrico della Fratta (1213 – resigned 1240)
  • Ottaviano degli Ubaldini (apostolic administrator: 1240 – resigned 1244)
• Giacomo Boncambi, O.P. (31 May 1244 – died October 1260)
• Ottaviano II degli Ubaldini (1261 – died 14 September 1295)
• Schiatta degli Ubaldini (1295 – died 1298)
• Giovanni Savelli, O.P. (1299 – died 1301)
• Uberto Avvocati (19 September 1301 – June 1322)
• Arnaldo Sabatier di Cahors (1322 – translated to Riez on 1 October 1330)
• Stefano Agonet (1331 – died 1332)
• Bertrando de Fumel (5 June 1332 – 1339)
• Beltramino Parravicini (5 September 1340 – died 1350)
• Giovanni di Naso, O.P. (13 October 1350 – died 3 August 1361)
• Almerico Cathy (18 August 1361 – translated to Limoges on 18 July 1371)
• Bernardo de Bonnevalle (18 July 1371 – deposed 1378)
  • Filippo Carafa (apostolic administrator: 28 September 1378 – died 1389)
• Cosimo de' Migliorati (19 June 1389 – resigned 1390, later elected Pope Innocent VII)
• Rolando da Imola, O.P. (1390)
• Bartolomeo Raimondi, O.S.B. (21 August 1392 – died 16 June 1406)
• Antonio Correr, C.R.S.G.A. (31 March 1407 – resigned 2 November 1412)^[8]
• Giovanni di Michele, O.S.B. (1412 – died 5 January 1417)
• Blessed Niccolò Albergati, O.Cart. (4 January 1417 – died 9 May 1443)
  • Ludovico Trevisano (apostolic administrator: 9 May 1443 – resigned 1444)
• Nicolò Zanolini, C.R.L. (bishop-elect: 1444 – died 18 May 1444)
• Tomaso Parentucelli (27 November 1444 – elected Pope Nicholas V on 6 March 1447)
• Giovanni del Poggio (22 March 1447 – died 15 December 1447)
• Filippo Calandrini (18 December 1447 – died 18 July 1476)
  • Francesco Gonzaga (apostolic administrator: 26 July 1476 – died 21 October 1483)
• Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (3 November 1483 – 20 September 1499, later elected Pope Julius II)
• Giovanni Stefano Ferreri (24 January 1502 – 5 October 1510)
  • Cardinal Francesco Adiosi (apostolic administrator: 18 October 1510 – 24 May 1511)
• Cardinal Achille Grassi (24 May 1511 – 22 November 1523)
• Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio (2 December 1523 – 1525)
  • Cardinal Andrea della Valle (apostolic administrator: 20 December 1525 – 19 March 1526)
• Cardinal Alessandro Campeggio (1526 – 6 March 1553)
• Giovanni Campeggio (6 March 1553 – 7 September 1563)
  • Cardinal Rannucio Farnese (apostolic administrator: 17 July 1564 – 28 October 1565)

Archbishops

• Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti (10 February 1566 – 23 July 1597) (first archbishop on 10 December 1582)
• Alfonso Paleotti (23 July 1597 – 1610)
• Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese (25 October 1610 – 2 April 1612)
• Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi (12 March 1612 – elected Pope Gregory XV on 9 February 1621)
• Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (29 March 1621 – 18 November 1632)
• Cardinal Girolamo Colonna (24 November 1632 – 1645)
• Cardinal Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi (6 February 1645 – 1651)
• Cardinal Geronimo Boncompagni (11 December 1651 – 24 January 1684)
• Cardinal Angelo Ranuzzi (17 May 1688 – 27 September 1689)
• Cardinal Giacomo Boncompagni (15 April 1690 – 24 March 1731)
• Cardinal Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (30 April 1731 – elected Pope Benedict XIV on 17 August 1740)
• Cardinal Vincenzo Malvezzi (14 January 1754 – 3 December 1775)
• Cardinal Andrea Giovanetti (15 December 1775 – 8 April 1800)
• Cardinal Carlo Oppizoni (20 September 1802 – 31 May 1831)
• Cardinal Michele Viale-Prelà (28 September 1855 – 15 May 1860)
• Cardinal Filippo Guidi (21 December 1863 – 12 November 1871)
• Cardinal Carlo Luigi Morichini (24 November 1871 – 22 December 1876)
• Cardinal Lucido Parocchi (12 March 1877 – 28 June 1882)
• Cardinal Francesco Battaglini (3 July 1882 – 8 July 1892)
• Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli (16 January 1893 – 12 June 1893)
• Cardinal Domenico Svampa (21 May 1894 – 10 August 1907)
• Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa (18 December 1907 – elected Pope Benedict XV on 3 September 1914)
• Cardinal Giorgio Gusmini (8 September 1914 – 24 August 1921)
• Cardinal Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (21 November 1921 – 13 March 1952)
• Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro (19 April 1952 – 12 February 1968)
• Cardinal Antonio Poma (12 February 1968 – 11 February 1983)
• Enrico Manfredini (18 March 1983 – 16 December 1983)
• Cardinal Giacomo Biffi (19 April 1984 – 16 December 2003)
• Cardinal Carlo Caffarra (16 December 2003 – present)

References

External links

• Official site (Italian)
• Pius Bonifacius Gams Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae, quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo, p. 676-677

Coordinates: 44°29′45″N 11°20′36″E / 44.4958°N 11.3433°E / 44.4958; 11.3433