Demonym(s) Voghieresi Area 40.5 km² Local time Tuesday 7:50 PM Postal code 44019 | Elevation 7 m (23 ft) Time zone CET (UTC+1) Dialling code 0532 | |
Frazioni Ducentola, Gualdo, Montesanto, Voghenza Weather 18°C, Wind E at 13 km/h, 57% Humidity | ||
Voghiera is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the northeastern Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Bologna and about 13 kilometres (8 mi) southeast of Ferrara.
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Map of 44019 Voghiera Province of Ferrara, Italy
As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,924 and an area of 40.5 square kilometres (15.6 sq mi).
Geography
The municipality of Voghiera contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Ducentola, Gualdo, Montesanto and Voghenza (a former bishopric).
Voghiera borders the following municipalities: Argenta, Ferrara, Masi Torello and Portomaggiore.
Ecclesiastical history
Of these, Voghenza (in Latin, Vicohabentia) was once a residential bishopric, believed to have been renamed, due to a see shift, in 950 as Diocese of Ferrara (now Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ferrara–Comacchio).
Titular see
It is now included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.
In 1966 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Voghenza (Curiate Italian) or Vicohabentia in Latin, adjective Vicohabentin(us).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal promotion in this title as exception :