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Diocese of Adria–Rovigo

Adrien(sis)-Rhodigien(sis)

The Diocese of Adria-Rovigo is a Latin rite diocese in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, suffragan to the Patriarchate of Venice. It took its present name in 1986, uniting the historic see of Adria with Rovigo.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
640
Latin
Adrien(sis)-Rhodigien(sis)
Patron
san Bellino
Annuario code
001000602

The see in figures

Catholics
190,000
Population
193,890
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
98.0%
Priests
98
Catholics per priest
1,939
Extent
1,193 km²
Catholics per km²
159

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Pierantonio Pavanello
Born
20 May 1955
Birthplace
Bassano del Grappa

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cattedrale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo stands in Adria–Rovigo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Venice

A suffragan of Patriarchate of Venice.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Bearing its present name since 1986, the Latin diocese of Adria-Rovigo (Latin: Dioecesis Adriensis-Rhodigiensis) lies in the Triveneto and is a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice. The comune of Adria sits north of the Po River, some 88 km (56 mi) north of Ravenna. The diocesan territory takes in roughly the northeastern Italian civil Province of Rovigo (though Rovigo itself is not an episcopal see) along with part of one town in the Province of Padua.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.