Roman Catholic Diocese of Adria-Rovigo

Diocese of Adria-Rovigo
Dioecesis Adriensis-Rhodigiensis

Adria Cathedral
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Venice
Statistics
Area 1,193 km2 (461 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2012)
204,464
198,000 (96.8%)
Parishes 109
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 7th Century
Cathedral Cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo (Adria)
Co-cathedral Concattedrale di S. Stefano Papa e Martire (Rovigo)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Pierantonio Pavanello
Map
Website
www.diocesi.rovigo.it
Co-cathedral in Rovigo

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Adria-Rovigo (Latin: Dioecesis Adriensis-Rhodigiensis), in the Triveneto, has existed under this name since 1986. It is a Latin suffragan to the Patriarchate of Venice.[1]

Its territory comprises roughly the northeastern Italian Province of Rovigo (Rovigo itself is not an episcopal see), and a part of one town in the Province of Padua.

Special churches

Its Cathedral episcopal see is the Cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, in Adria, province of Rovigo.

It has a Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di S. Stefano Papa e Martire Concattedrale dedicated to Martyr Pope Stephen I, in Rovigo, which never was a diocese.

Furthermores, there are several Minor Basilicas :

Ecclesiastical history

Tradition dates the preaching of the Gospel in Adria from the days of Saint Apollinaris, himself consecrated bishop by Saint Peter. The figure of this Bishop of Ravenna has a singular importance in the hagiographical legends of the northeast of Italy. Even if Emilia, Romagna and the territory around Venice were Christianized and had bishops (the two facts are concomitant) before Piedmont, for example, their conversion does not go back beyond the end of the second century.

The first known bishop of Adria is Gallonistus, who was present at a synod in Rome (649) under Pope Martin I (Mansi, XII). The Venerable Bede's Martyrology mentions a Saint Colianus, Bishop of Adria, but nothing is known about him.

Established in 640 AD as Diocese of Adria. Amongst the bishops of Adria is the Blessed Aldobrandinus of Este (1248-1352).

Gained territory on 1818.05.01 from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ravenna, and exchanged territory with the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ferrara Exchanged territory again on 1819.03.09 with Diocese of Padova

The diocese had in the early 20th century, for a population of 190,400: 80 parishes, 300 churches, chapels and oratories; 250 secular priests, 72 seminarians, 12 regular priests and 9 lay-brothers; 90 confraternities; 3 boys schools (97 pupils) and 6 girls schools (99 pupils).

Renamed on 1986.09.30 as Diocese of Adria–Rovigo.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

(incomplete : first millennium mostly unavailable)

TO BE COMPLETED

Suffragan Bishops of Adria

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Suffragan Bishops of Adria-Rovigo

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Catholic Hierarchy page

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Coordinates: 45°03′00″N 12°03′00″E / 45.0500°N 12.0500°E / 45.0500; 12.0500

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