Parishes 109 Area 1,193 km² Bishop Pierantonio Pavanello | Established 7th Century Phone +39 0425 209611 Country Italy | |
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Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2015)204,525197,975 (96.8%) Cathedral Cattedrale di SS. Pietro e Paolo (Adria) Similar Duomo Santo Stefano, Parrocchia di San Bartolom, Saint Francesco, Convento Frati Cappuccini, Parrocchia Di SSofia | ||
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.
Contents
- Special churches
- Ecclesiastical history
- Bishops
- Diocese of Adria
- to 1500
- since 1900
- Diocese of Adria Rovigo
- References
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.
In 2015, in the diocese of Adria-Rovigo there was one priest for every 1,355 Catholics.
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.
Bishops
(all Roman Rite)
(incomplete : first millennium mostly unavailable)
Diocese of Adria
Erected: 7th Century
Latin Name: Adriensis
Metropolitan: Patriarchate of Venice
to 1500
since 1900
Diocese of Adria-Rovigo
Name Changed: 30 September 1986
Latin Name: Adriensis-Rhodigiensis
Metropolitan: Patriarchate of Venice