This page is a list ofCatholicbishops andarchbishops ofRavenna and, from 1947 of the Archdiocese of Ravenna and Cervia, which in 1985 became styled theArchdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia.^[1][2] The earlier bishops were frequently tied to theExarchate of Ravenna.

• St.Apollinaris, traditionally 1st century and legendarily appointed to the episcopate byPeter the Apostle himself, but dates are uncertain; may instead belong to the 2nd century^[4][5]
• St.Adheritus,^[6] 2nd century^[7]
• St.Eleuchadius,^[6] diedc. 112, but chronology uncertain[8]
• St.Marcian, or Marcianus^[6] — died c. 127; feast day May 22^[9]
• St.Calocerus^[6]
• St.Proculus^[6]
• St.Probus I died 175^[6]
• St.Dathus^[6]
• St.Liberius I^[6]
• St.Agapitus^[6]
• St.Marcellinus,^[10][11]
• St.Severus (c. 308–c. 348)^[10]
• St. Liberius II^[10]
• St. Probus II^[10]
• Florentius^[10]
• Liberius III (c. 380–c. 399)^[10]
• St.Ursus (c. 399–c. 426), who built theBasilica Ursiana, the originalCathedral Basilica of the Resurrection of Our Lord^[10] (theAnastasis in the Byzantine period)
• John Angeloptes, "the Angel-seer"c. 430–433.[12] Revered as a saint, feast day 27 November. In hisLiber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (LPR; 'Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna'),^[10]Andreas Agnellus (9th century), dates Angeloptes' episcopate to late in the 5th century, conflating details of his life with John II (477–494), whom he designates "John I".^[a][13]
• St.Peter Chrysologus (433– c. 449)^[10][12]
• Neon,c. 449 – c. 452[13]^: 911 (c. 450 – c. 473 according to Agnellus^[10])
• Exuperantiusc. 452 – c. 477[13]^: 911 (c. 473 – c. 477 according to Agnellus^[10])
• John II (erroneously ordered as "John I", "the angel-seer" by Agnellus^[a]; 477–494)^[10]
• Peter II (494–519)^[10]
• Aurelian (519–521)^[10]
• Ecclesius, orEcclesio Celio di Ravenna [it] (522–532) — started construction of the city'sBasilica of San Vitale and is represented there in the apse mosaic^{[3][14][15][16]}
• St.Ursicinus (533–536) — ordered the construction of theBasilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe^[14]
• Victor (538–545) — features on monograms on the capitals in theBasilica of San Vitale^[14]

• Maximianus of Ravenna (546–556 or 557) — Ravenna's 28th bishop^[13]: 913 (or 27th, according to theLPR^[10]), he was its first archbishop. TheThrone of Maximian, aJustinian Byzantine-stylecathedra, was made for him.^[17]
• Agnellus (556–569)^[18]
• Peter III the Elder,Petrus Senior orPietro III (569–578)
• John III the Roman, or Giovanni III (578–595)^[b]
• Mariniano (595–606)

• John IV (607–625)^[c]
• John V (625– c. 631)^[d]
• Bonus (c. 631 – c. 644)
• Maurus (archbishop of Ravenna) (c. 644– c. 671)
• Reparatus (c. 671 – c. 677)
• Theodorus (c. 677 – c. 691)
• Damian (c. 692 – c. 709)

• St.Felix of Ravenna (c. 709–c. 725)
• John VI or Giovanni VI (c. 726 – c. 744)^[e]
• Sergius (c. 744 – c. 769)
• Leo I (c. 770 – c. 777)
• John VII or Giovanni VII (c. 777 – c. 784)[f]
• Gratiosus (c. 785 – c. 789)
• Valerius (c. 789 – c. 810)

• Martin (c. 810 – c. 818)
• Petronax (c. 818 – c. 837)
• George (c. 837 – c. 846)
• Deusdedit (c. 847 – c. 850)
• John VIII or Giovanni VIII (c. 850–878), excommunicated 861 byPope Nicholas I, later reconciled^[19][20]
• Romano di Calcinaria (Romanus) (878–888)
• Deusdedit (889–898)

• John IX (898–904)
• John of Tossignano (Giovanni da Tossignano; 905–914), laterPope John X
• Constantine (914–926)
• Peter IV (927–971)
• Onestus (971–983)
• Giovanni Vincenzo [it], Giovanni da Besate, orJohn X (983–998)
• Gerbert of Aurillac (998–999), laterPope Sylvester II

• Leo II (999–1001)
• Frederick (1002–1004)
• Ethelbert (1004–1014)
• Arnold of Saxony (1014–1019)
• Heribert (1019–1027)
• Gebeardo Tedesco,Gebeardo da Eichstätt (1027–1044) formerly the canon of thecathedral of Eichstätt in his homeland, Bavaria^[21]
• Witgero (1044–1046)
• Hunfredus (1046–1051)
• John Henry (1051–1072)
• Guiberto di Ravenna [it] (1072–1100), later theAntipope Clement III^[22]

• Ottone Boccatortia (1100–1110)
• Geremia (1110–1117)^[23]
• Filippo (1118)
• Gualtiero (1119–1144)
• Mose da Vercelli (1144–1154)
• Anselm of Havelberg (1155–1158)
• Guido di Biandrate [it] (1159–1169)
• Gerard (1169–1190)^[24]
• Guglielmo di Cabriano [it] (William of Cabriano; 1190–1201), jurist and author of^[25]

• Alberto Oselletti (1201–1207)^[24]
• Egidio de Garzoni (1207–1208)
• Ubaldo (1208–1216)^[26]
• Piccinino (1216)
• Simeone (1217–1228)
• Teoderico (1228–1249)
• Filippo da Pistoia (1251–1270)
• Sede vacante ('vacant see') 1270–1274
• Bonifacio Fieschi di Lavagna (1274–1294)
• Obizzo Sanvitale (1295–1303)

• St.Rinaldo da Concorezzo (1303–1321)^[27]
• Rinaldo da Polenta (1321–1322)
• Aimerico di Chastellux (1322–1332)
• Guido de Roberti (1332–1333)
• Francesco Michiel (1333–1342)
• Nicola Canal (1342–1347)
• Fortanerius Vassalli (1347–1351)
• Petrocino Casalesco (1362–1369)
• Pietro Pileo di Prata (1370–1387)
• Cosimo de' Migliorati (1387–1400), later PopeInnocent VII

• Giovanni Nicolai de' Migliorati (1400–1405)
• Tommaso Perendoli (1411–1445)
• Bartolomeo Roverella (1445–1475)
• Filiasio Roverella (1475–1516)

• Niccolò Fieschi (1516–1517)
• Urbano Fieschi (1517–1521)
• Pietro de Accolti de Aretio – appointed 25 June 1524, resigned December 1524
• Benedetto de Accolti the Younger – appointed 17 August 1524, died in office 21 September 1549
• Ranuccio Farnese (11 October 1549 – 28 April 1564)
• Giulio della Rovere – appointed 1566, died in office 3 September 1578
• Cristoforo Boncampagni (1578–1603)

• Pietro Aldobrandini – appointed 1604, died in office 10 February 1621
• Luigi Capponi – appointed 3 March 1621, resigned 18 September 1645
• Luca Torreggiani –r. 1645–1669
• Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni – appointed 19 May 1670, resigned 19 February 1674^[28]
• Fabio Guinigi (1674–1691)^[28]
• Raimondo Ferretti (1692–1719)^[28]

• Girolamo Crispi (1720–1727)^[28]
• Maffeo Nicola Farsetti (1727–1741)^[28]
• Sede vacante ('vacant see') 1741–1745
• Ferdinando Romualdo Guiccioli (1745–1763)
• Nicola Oddi (1764–1767)
• Antonio Cantoni (1767–1781)
• Sede vacante 1781–1785
• Antonio Codronchi (1785–1826)

• Clarissimo Falconieri Mellini – appointed 3 July 1826, died in office 2 April 1859
• Enrico Orfei – appointed 23 March 1860, died in office 22 December 1870
• Vincenzo Moretti – appointed 27 October 1871, resigned 22 September 1879
• Giacomo Cattani – appointed 22 September 1879, died in office 14 February 1887
• Sebastiano Galeati – appointed 23 May 1887, died in office 25 January 1901

• Agostino Gaetano Riboldi – appointed 15 April 1901, died in office 25 April 1902
• St.Guido Maria Conforti – appointed 9 June 1902, resigned 12 October 1904. Conforti wascanonised in 2011
• Pasquale Morganti – appointed 14 November 1904, died in office 18 December 1921
• Antonio Lega – succeeded 18 December 1921, died in office 16 November 1946

• Giacomo Lercaro – in office from 31 January 1947 to 19 April 1952, when appointedArchbishop of Bologna
• Egidio Negrin – in office from May 1952 until appointed Archbishop (Personal Title) of Treviso in April 1956
• Salvatore Baldassarri – appointed 3 May 1956, resigned November 1975

• Ersilio Tonini – appointed November 1975, retired October 1990 (see diocese's name change in 1986; became Cardinal after retirement)
• Luigi Amaducci – appointed October 1990, retired March 2000
• Giuseppe Verucchi – appointed March 2000

• Timeline of Ravenna
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum – Collection of ancient Latin inscriptions, which includes the inscription on John II's (477–494) tomb (CIL 11, 304) – and that of the other episcopal tombs of this era

• Angold, Michael (2019). "A Papal Version of the Fourth Crusade: The Mosaics of San Giovanni Evangelista at Ravenna".Speculum.94 (4 (OCTOBER)):1006–1032.
• Agnellus of Ravenna (2004).The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna. Medieval Texts in Translation. Translated by Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf. Introduction and notes by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. Catholic University of America Press.doi:10.2307/j.ctt284wdr.ISBN 978-0-8132-1358-3.JSTOR j.ctt284wdr.
• Holweck, Frederick George (1969).A biographical dictionary of the saints, with a general introduction on hagiology. Detroit: Gale Research Co.
• Martindale, John R.; Jones, A. H. M.; Morris, John (1992),The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. III:AD 527–641, Cambridge University Press,ISBN 0-521-20160-8, [Part A of volume III: Abandanes – ‘Lyad ibn Ghanm].

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