Cesena-Sarsina (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Bishop(s)

Douglas Regattieri, Bishop

General Information

Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese
United: 30 September 1986
Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia
Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops
Rite: Latin (or Roman)
Country: Italy
Square Kilometers: 1,530 (590 Square Miles)
Conference Region: Emilia-Romagna
Official Web Site: http://www.diocesicesenasarsina.it
Mailing Address: Via Don Minzoni 47, 47521 Cesena [Forli-Cesena], Italia
Telephone: 0547.19.38.511
Fax: 0547.61.37.15

Historical Details

Diocese of Cesena
- Latin Name: Caesenatensis
- Erected: 1st Century
- Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Ravenna
- Country: Italy
- Square Kilometers: 400 (154 Square Miles)

Past and Present Ordinaries

Oddo † ( 1207 Appointed - 1223 Died)
Manzino † ( 1232 Appointed - 1250 Died)
Michele , O.F.M. † ( 1255 Appointed - )
Francesco , O.P. † ( 1263 Appointed - )
Everardo di Sassonia, O.P. † ( 1266 Appointed - 1274 Died)
Americ † ( 1274 Appointed - 1290 Died)
Leonardo † (17 Jun 1291 Appointed - 16 May 1312 Died)
Giovanni delle Caminate † (2 Mar 1313 Appointed - 21 Aug 1322 Died)
Geraldo d’Anglars † (15 Mar 1323 Appointed - 16 Jul 1324 Appointed, Bishop of Cervia)
Tommaso de Muro † (16 Jul 1324 Appointed - 16 Jun 1326 Appointed, Bishop of Ancona)
Ambrogio , O.E.S.A. † (25 Jul 1326 Appointed - 1332 Died)
Giovanni Battista Acciaiuoli † (30 Oct 1332 Appointed - 1342 Died)
Bernardo de’ Martellini, O.E.S.A. † (18 Jul 1342 Appointed - 1348 Died)
Guglielmo de Mirolis, O.F.M. † (3 Oct 1348 Appointed - 1358 Died)
Vitale de Caesena, O.F.M. † (13 Apr 1358 Appointed - 1362 Died)
Bencivenne † (11 Mar 1362 Appointed - 13 Jun 1364 Died)
Lucio da Cagli † (11 Dec 1364 Appointed - 9 Jan 1374 Appointed, Bishop of Volterra)
Jean Bertet, O.P. † (9 Jan 1374 Appointed - 20 Jun 1380 Appointed, Bishop of Angoulême)
Luigi degli Aloisi † ( 1376 Appointed - )
Giacomo † ( 1379 Appointed - )
Giacomo , O. Carm. † ( 1391 Appointed - )
Giacomo dei Saladini † ( 1398 Appointed - )
Gregorio Malesardi, O.P. † (31 Jan 1406 Appointed - 6 Mar 1419 Died)
Vittore di Rimini, O.E.S.A. † (5 Jul 1419 Appointed - 1425 Died)
Paolo Ferrante † (19 Dec 1425 Appointed - 1431 Died)
Agostino de Favaroni, O.E.S.A. † (13 Jun 1431 Appointed - 1435 Resigned)
Antonio Malatesta † (5 Dec 1435 Appointed - )
Giovanni Venturelli † (23 Aug 1475 Appointed - 23 Aug 1486 Died)
Pietro Menzi de Vincentia † (11 May 1487 Appointed - 1504 Died)
Fazio Giovanni Santori † (22 Jul 1504 Appointed - 22 Mar 1510 Died)
Cristoforo Spiriti † (8 Apr 1510 Appointed - 5 Nov 1556 Died)
Odoardo Gualandi (Galanti) † (7 Dec 1557 Appointed - 1588 Resigned)
Camillo Gualandi † (30 Mar 1588 Appointed - 11 Feb 1609 Died)
Michelangelo Tonti † (11 Mar 1609 Appointed - 21 Apr 1622 Died)
Francesco Sacrati † (23 May 1622 Appointed - 6 Sep 1623 Died)
Lorenzo Campeggi † (8 Dec 1623 Appointed - 11 Dec 1628 Appointed, Bishop of Senigallia)
Pietro Bonaventura † (14 Mar 1629 Appointed - 23 Jul 1653 Died)
Flaminio Marcellino † (21 Apr 1655 Appointed - 14 Mar 1677 Died)
Giacomo Fantuzzi (Elefantucci) † (30 Aug 1677 Appointed - 29 Nov 1679 Died)
Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (22 Jan 1680 Appointed - 18 Mar 1686 Appointed, Archbishop of Benevento)
Jan Kazimierz Denhoff † (10 Nov 1687 Appointed - 2 Jun 1697 Resigned)
Giovanni Fontana † (3 Jun 1697 Appointed - 2 Mar 1716 Died)
Marco Battista Battaglini † (8 Jun 1716 Appointed - 19 Sep 1717 Died)
Francesco Saverio Guicciardi † (24 Jan 1718 Appointed - 18 Jan 1725 Died)
Giovanni Battista Orsi, C.O. † (21 Mar 1725 Appointed - 15 Nov 1734 Resigned)
Guido Orselli † (17 Nov 1734 Appointed - 18 Mar 1763 Died)
Francesco Agoselli † (18 Jul 1763 Appointed - 8 Jan 1791 Died)
Carlo Bellisomi † (22 Sep 1795 Appointed - 9 Aug 1808 Died)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni † (8 Mar 1816 Appointed - 4 Aug 1821 Appointed, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary)
Antonio Maria Cadolini, B. † (19 Apr 1822 Appointed - 12 Feb 1838 Appointed, Bishop of Ancona e Numana)
Innocenzo Castracane degli Antelminelli † (12 Feb 1838 Appointed - Jun 1848 Died)
Enrico Orfei † (11 Sep 1848 Appointed - 23 Mar 1860 Appointed, Archbishop of Ravenna)
Vincenzo Moretti † (23 Mar 1860 Appointed - 27 Mar 1867 Appointed, Bishop of Imola)
Paolo Bentini † (27 Oct 1871 Appointed - 30 Nov 1881 Died)
Giovanni Maria Strocchi † (27 Mar 1882 Appointed - 1887 Died)
Alfonso Maria Vespignani † (1 Jun 1888 Appointed - 11 Feb 1904 Died)
Giovanni Cazzani † (5 Aug 1904 Appointed - 19 Dec 1914 Appointed, Bishop of Cremona)
Fabio Berdini † (4 Jun 1915 Appointed - 24 Jun 1926 Resigned)
Alfonso Archi † (4 Mar 1927 Appointed - 4 Dec 1938 Died)
Beniamino Socche † (4 Feb 1939 Appointed - 13 Feb 1946 Appointed, Bishop of Reggio Emilia)
Vincenzo Gili † (22 Mar 1946 Appointed - 30 Nov 1954 Died)
Giuseppe Amici † (1 Feb 1955 Appointed - 23 Dec 1956 Appointed, Archbishop of Modena (e Nonantola))
Augusto Gianfranceschi † (3 Feb 1957 Appointed - 28 May 1977 Retired)
Luigi Amaducci † (28 May 1977 Appointed - 27 Oct 1990 Appointed, Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia)
Lino Esterino Garavaglia, O.F.M. Cap. † (25 Mar 1991 Appointed - 3 Dec 2003 Retired)
Antonio Lanfranchi † (3 Dec 2003 Appointed - 27 Jan 2010 Appointed, Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola)
Douglas Regattieri (8 Oct 2010 Appointed - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
Diocese of Cesena
1st Century	Erected		Diocese of Cesena (erected)
7 October 1975	Territory Added	Diocese of Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro) (Verghereto and parts of Bagno di Romagna)	Diocese of Cesena
Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina
30 September 1986	United	Diocese of Cesena Diocese of Sarsina	Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

Diocese of Cesena

1886 58,631 .0% 144 0 58 OTC

1950 96,500 97,000 99.5% 124 54 178 542 81 206 67 ap1951

1959 110,700 110,920 99.8% 138 51 189 585 53 218 74 ap1960

1970 124,912 125,000 99.9% 136 54 190 657 1 72 238 81 ap1971

1980 152,000 152,500 99.7% 151 50 201 756 58 176 108 ap1981

Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina

1990 153,200 154,000 99.5% 160 47 207 740 5 64 133 122 ap1991

1999 154,500 155,900 99.1% 152 41 193 800 16 50 125 122 ap2000

2000 154,500 155,900 99.1% 151 41 192 804 16 50 125 121 ap2001

2001 155,000 157,970 98.1% 144 39 183 846 17 48 110 104 ap2002

2002 157,970 160,000 98.7% 143 39 182 867 17 48 110 104 ap2003

2003 155,970 157,837 98.8% 141 37 178 876 18 46 110 104 ap2004

2004 155,900 157,900 98.7% 136 37 173 901 20 46 110 101 ap2005

2006 160,000 167,000 95.8% 126 40 166 963 26 49 92 101 ap2007

2013 159,700 168,600 94.7% 111 37 148 1,079 32 44 76 96 ap2014

2016 170,638 173,948 98.1% 105 33 138 1,236 42 42 83 95 ap2017

2019 167,503 172,043 97.4% 103 43 146 1,147 44 56 60 94 ap2020

2021 161,301 174,494 92.4% 90 49 139 1,160 47 62 60 94 ap2022

2023 162,985 173,215 94.1% 77 52 129 1,263 47 65 62 87 ap2024

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Diocese of Cesena
1886		58,631	.0%			144	0				58	OTC
1950	96,500	97,000	99.5%	124	54	178	542		81	206	67	ap1951
1959	110,700	110,920	99.8%	138	51	189	585		53	218	74	ap1960
1970	124,912	125,000	99.9%	136	54	190	657	1	72	238	81	ap1971
1980	152,000	152,500	99.7%	151	50	201	756		58	176	108	ap1981
Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina
1990	153,200	154,000	99.5%	160	47	207	740	5	64	133	122	ap1991
1999	154,500	155,900	99.1%	152	41	193	800	16	50	125	122	ap2000
2000	154,500	155,900	99.1%	151	41	192	804	16	50	125	121	ap2001
2001	155,000	157,970	98.1%	144	39	183	846	17	48	110	104	ap2002
2002	157,970	160,000	98.7%	143	39	182	867	17	48	110	104	ap2003
2003	155,970	157,837	98.8%	141	37	178	876	18	46	110	104	ap2004
2004	155,900	157,900	98.7%	136	37	173	901	20	46	110	101	ap2005
2006	160,000	167,000	95.8%	126	40	166	963	26	49	92	101	ap2007
2013	159,700	168,600	94.7%	111	37	148	1,079	32	44	76	96	ap2014
2016	170,638	173,948	98.1%	105	33	138	1,236	42	42	83	95	ap2017
2019	167,503	172,043	97.4%	103	43	146	1,147	44	56	60	94	ap2020
2021	161,301	174,494	92.4%	90	49	139	1,160	47	62	60	94	ap2022
2023	162,985	173,215	94.1%	77	52	129	1,263	47	65	62	87	ap2024

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Giovanni Battista Acciaiuoli † (Bishop: 30 Oct 1332 to 1342)
Francesco Agoselli † (Bishop: 18 Jul 1763 to 8 Jan 1791)
Francesco Albizzi †
Luigi degli Aloisi † (Bishop: 1376)
Luigi Amaducci † (Bishop: 28 May 1977 to 27 Oct 1990)
Giuseppe Amici † (Bishop: 1 Feb 1955 to 23 Dec 1956)
Geraldo d’Anglars † (Bishop: 15 Mar 1323 to 16 Jul 1324)
Alfonso Archi † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 4 Mar 1927 to 4 Dec 1938)
Giovanni Carlo Bandi †
Barzellino de’ Barzellini †
Marco Battista Battaglini † (Bishop: 8 Jun 1716 to 19 Sep 1717)
Niccola Belletti †
Carlo Bellisomi † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 22 Sep 1795 to 9 Aug 1808)
Paolo Bentini † (Priest: 18 Sep 1824; Bishop: 27 Oct 1871 to 30 Nov 1881)
Fabio Berdini † (Bishop: 4 Jun 1915 to 24 Jun 1926)
Jean Bertet, O.P. † (Bishop: 9 Jan 1374 to 20 Jun 1380)
George (Giorgio) Biguzzi, S.X. †
Pietro Bonaventura † (Bishop: 14 Mar 1629 to 23 Jul 1653)
Giovanni Angelico Braschi †
Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti †
Nicola Buschi †
Antonio Maria Cadolini, B. † (Bishop: 19 Apr 1822 to 12 Feb 1838)
Vitale de Caesena, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 13 Apr 1358 to 1362)
Lucio da Cagli † (Bishop: 11 Dec 1364 to 9 Jan 1374)
Giovanni delle Caminate † (Bishop: 2 Mar 1313 to 21 Aug 1322)
Lorenzo Campeggi † (Bishop: 8 Dec 1623 to 11 Dec 1628)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni † (Bishop: 8 Mar 1816 to 4 Aug 1821)
Innocenzo Castracane degli Antelminelli † (Bishop: 12 Feb 1838 to Jun 1848)
Giovanni Cazzani † (Bishop: 5 Aug 1904 to 19 Dec 1914)
Barnaba (Gregorio) Chiaramonti, O.S.B. †
Alessandro Chiaruzzi †
Girolamo Dandini †
Jan Kazimierz Denhoff † (Bishop: 10 Nov 1687 to 2 Jun 1697)
Giacomo Fantuzzi (Elefantucci) † (Bishop: 30 Aug 1677 to 29 Nov 1679)
Agostino de Favaroni, O.E.S.A. † (Administrator: 13 Jun 1431 to 1435)
Paolo Ferrante † (Bishop: 19 Dec 1425 to 1431)
Giovanni Fontana † (Bishop: 3 Jun 1697 to 2 Mar 1716)
Pietro Francesco Galleffi †
Lino Esterino Garavaglia, O.F.M. Cap. † (Bishop: 25 Mar 1991 to 3 Dec 2003)
Augusto Gianfranceschi † (Bishop: 3 Feb 1957 to 28 May 1977)
Vincenzo Gili † (Bishop: 22 Mar 1946 to 30 Nov 1954)
Camillo Gualandi † (Bishop: 30 Mar 1588 to 11 Feb 1609)
Odoardo Gualandi (Galanti) † (Bishop: 7 Dec 1557 to 1588)
Francesco Saverio Guicciardi † (Bishop: 24 Jan 1718 to 18 Jan 1725)
Romoaldo Guidi †
Antonio Lanfranchi † (Bishop: 3 Dec 2003 to 27 Jan 2010)
Francesco Maria Locatelli †
Antonio Malatesta † (Bishop: 5 Dec 1435)
Gregorio Malesardi, O.P. † (Bishop: 31 Jan 1406 to 6 Mar 1419)
Giulio Mami †
Flaminio Marcellino † (Bishop: 21 Apr 1655 to 14 Mar 1677)
Bernardo de’ Martellini, O.E.S.A. † (Bishop: 18 Jul 1342 to 1348)
Tobia Masacci † (Priest: 23 Sep 1826 to 23 Feb 1872)
Pietro Menzi de Vincentia † (Bishop: 11 May 1487 to 1504)
Guglielmo de Mirolis, O.F.M. † (Bishop: 3 Oct 1348 to 1358)
Vincenzo Moretti † (Bishop: 23 Mar 1860 to 27 Mar 1867)
Tommaso de Muro † (Bishop: 16 Jul 1324 to 16 Jun 1326)
Enrico Orfei † (Bishop: 11 Sep 1848 to 23 Mar 1860)
Guido Orselli † (Bishop: 17 Nov 1734 to 18 Mar 1763)
Giovanni Battista Orsi, C.O. † (Bishop: 21 Mar 1725 to 15 Nov 1734)
Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 22 Jan 1680 to 18 Mar 1686)
Luigi Paggi (Poggi) †
Aloysius Pistocchi †
Vittore di Rimini, O.E.S.A. † (Bishop: 5 Jul 1419 to 1425)
Aurelio Roverella †
Flaminio Roverella †
Lattanzio Roverella †
Pietro Luigi Rusconi † (Auxiliary Bishop: 23 Feb 1801 to 29 Mar 1805)
Francesco Sacrati † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 23 May 1622 to 6 Sep 1623)
Giacomo dei Saladini † (Bishop: 1398)
Fazio Giovanni Santori † (Bishop: 22 Jul 1504 to 22 Mar 1510)
Everardo di Sassonia, O.P. † (Bishop: 1266 to 1274)
Pietro Severi † (Priest: 19 Dec 1925 to 21 Jun 1948)
Beniamino Socche † (Bishop: 4 Feb 1939 to 13 Feb 1946)
Cristoforo Spiriti † (Bishop: 8 Apr 1510 to 5 Nov 1556)
Giovanni Battista Spiriti † (Coadjutor Bishop: 27 Nov 1545 to 5 Nov 1556)
Giovanni Maria Strocchi † (Bishop: 27 Mar 1882 to 1887)
Giuseppe Maria Terzi †
Michelangelo Tonti † (Archbishop (Personal Title): 11 Mar 1609 to 21 Apr 1622)
Paul Tosi, O.F.M. Cap. †
Giovanni Bernardino Vendemini †
Giovanni Venturelli † (Bishop: 23 Aug 1475 to 23 Aug 1486)
Alfonso Maria Vespignani † (Bishop: 1 Jun 1888 to 11 Feb 1904)
Ambrogio , O.E.S.A. † (Bishop: 25 Jul 1326 to 1332)
Americ † (Bishop: 1274 to 1290)
Bencivenne † (Bishop: 11 Mar 1362 to 13 Jun 1364)
Francesco , O.P. † (Bishop: 1263)
Giacomo † (Bishop: 1379)
Giacomo , O. Carm. † (Bishop: 1391)
Leonardo † (Bishop: 17 Jun 1291 to 16 May 1312)
Manzino † (Bishop: 1232 to 1250)
Michele , O.F.M. † (Bishop: 1255)
Oddo † (Bishop: 1207 to 1223)

Source(s)

Diocese of Cesena
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 154
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2, Page 113
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 144
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 127
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 134
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 137, and Page 138
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 681, to Page 683
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 67, Page 678, to Page 680
Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 79, Page 671, to Page 673

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