Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence

Archdiocese of Florence Archidioecesis Florentinus
Facade of Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Florence
Statistics
Area	2,205 km2 (851 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 853,500 846,000 (99.1%)
Parishes	314
Information
Rite	Roman
Established	1st Century
Cathedral	Basilica Cattedrale di S. Maria del Fiore
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Giuseppe Betori
Bishops emeritus	Ennio Antonelli
Map
Website
www.diocesifirenze.it

The Archdiocese of Florence (Latin: Archidioecesis Florentina) is a metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Italy. Traditionally founded in the 1st century, it was elevated to the dignity of an archdiocese on May 10, 1419, by Pope Martin V. Its mother church is the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, which has as its pastor the Archbishop of Florence. Since September 2008 Giuseppe Betori is the new Archbishop; the former Archbishop, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, was named President of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

List of Bishops and Archbishops of Florence

• Felix (313)

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• Saint Zenobius (– 417)

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• Mauritius (– 550)

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• Reparatus (684)

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• Alibrando (Hildebrand) (11th century)
• Gérard de Bourgogne (1045–1058 Elected, Pope)

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• Angelo Acciaioli I, O.P. (1342–1355)

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• Pietro Corsini (1362–1363 Appointed, Bishop of Florence)

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• Angelo II Acciaioli (1383–1385 Appointed, Bishop of Rapolla)

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• Alamanno Adimari (1400–1401 Appointed, Archbishop of Taranto)
• Francesco Zabarella (1410–17 June 1411)
• Amerigo Corsini (1411–1434)
• Giovanni Vitelleschi (1435–1437 Appointed Administrator of Trogir)
• Ludovico Trevisan, called Scarampo (1437 – 1439)
• Bartolomeo Zabarella (1439–1445)
• Antoninus of Florence, O.P. (1446–1459) (canonized 31 May 1523 by Pope Adrian VI)
• Orlando Bonarli (1459–1461)
• Giovanni Neroni Diotisalvi (1462–1473)
• Pietro Riario, O.F.M. Conv. (1473–1474), nephew of Pope Sixtus IV
• Rinaldo Orsini (archbishop) (1474–1508)
• Cosimo de'Pazzi (1508–1513)
• Giulio de' Medici (1513–1523), Elected Pope Clement VII
• Niccolò Ridolfi (1524–1532)
• Andrea Buondelmonti (1532–1542)
• Niccolò Ridolfi, second time (1453–1548)
• Antonio Altoviti (1548–1573 Died)
• Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici (1574–1605), Elected Pope Leo XI
• Alessandro Marzi de' Medici (1605–1630 Died)
• Cosimo de' Bardi (1630–1631 Died)
• Pietro Niccolini (1632–1651 Died)
• Francesco Nerli (seniore) (1652–1670 Died)
• Francesco Nerli (iuniore) (1670–1682 Resigned)
• Giacomo Antonio Morigia, B. (1683–1699 Resigned)
• Leone Strozzi, O.S.B. (1700–1703 Died)
• Tommaso Bonaventura della Gherardesca (1703–1721 Died)
• Giuseppe Maria Martelli (1722–1741 Resigned)
• Francesco Gaetano Incontri (1741–1781 Died)
• Antonio Martini (1781–1809 Died)
• Pietro Francesco Morali (1815–1826 Died)
• Ferdinando Minucci (1828–1856 Died)
• Giovacchino Limberti (1857–1874 Died)
• Eugenio Cecconi (1874–1888 Died)
• Agostino Bausa, O.P. (1889–1899 Died)
• Alfonso Mistrangelo (1899–1930 Died)
• Elia Dalla Costa (1931–1961 Died)
• Ermenegildo Florit (1962–1977 Retired)
• Giovanni Benelli (1977–1982 Died)
• Silvano Piovanelli (1983–2001 Retired)
• Ennio Antonelli (2001–2008 Appointed, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family)
• Giuseppe Betori (2008–present)

Sources

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Davies, Gerald Stanley (1916). Renascence: The Sculptured Tombs of the Fifteenth Century in Rome, with Chapters on the Previous Centuries from 1100. E. P. Dutton.