Diocese of Imola Dioecesis Imolensis | |
|---|---|
 Cathedral of Imola | |
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Bologna |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 740 km2 (290 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2021) 143,460 (est.) 136,280 (guess) |
| Parishes | 108 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 4th Century |
| Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale di S. Cassiano Martire |
| Secular priests | 77 (diocesan) 17 (religious Orders) 17 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Giovanni Mosciatti |
| Bishops emeritus | Tommaso Ghirelli |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Diocese of Imola (Latin: Diocesis Imolensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Romagna, northern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bologna.[1][2] The diocese had originally been a suffragan of the metropolitan of Milan, and was then subject to the Archbishop of Ravenna until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII made Bologna an archbishopric and assigned it two suffragans, Imola and Cervia. In 1604, however, Pope Clement VIII returned them to the metropolitanate of Ravenna.[3] Pope Pius VII transferred Imola back to the metropolitanate of Bologna.
The diocese of Imola is noted for having had a number of its bishops elected to the Papacy, including Cardinal Fabio Chigi (1652), afterwards Pope Alexander VII; Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti (1785), afterwards Pope Pius VII; and Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (1832), afterwards Pope Pius IX.
- ^ "Diocese of Imola" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016.[self-published source]
- ^ "Diocese of Imola" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016.[self-published source]
- ^ Kehr, Italia pontificia V, p. 162.