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 km^2 (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
Emeritus Bishops	Silvano Piovanelli 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. Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli is the Archbishop Emeritus of Florence.

List of Bishops and Archbishops of Florence

• Felix (313)
• Saint Zenobius (- 417)
• Mauritius (- 550)
• Reparatus (684)
• Alibrando (Hildebrand) (11th century)
• Angelo Acciaioli I (1342-1355)
• Francesco Zabarella (1410-1417)
• Ludovico Trevisan (6 August 1437 – 18 December 1439)
• …
• Rinaldo Orsini (1473 - )^[1]
• …
• Giulio de' Medici (1513 – 1523) Elected Pope Clement VII
• …
• Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici (1574 – 1596) Elected Pope Leo XI
• …
• Leone Strozzi (7 July 1700 – 4 October 1703)
• Tommaso della Gherardesca (12 November 1703 – 21 September 1721)
• Giuseppe Maria Martelli (20 May 1722 – 23 May 1741)
• Francesco Gaetano Incontri (1741 – 25 March 1781)
• Antonio Martini (7 July 1781 – 31 December 1809 )
• Pietro Francesco Morali (15 March 1815 – 29 September 1826)
• Ferdinando Minucci (28 January 1828 – 2 July 1856)
• Giovacchino Limberti (23 August 1857 – 27 October 1874)
• Eugenio Cecconi (21 December 1874 – 15 June 1888)
• Agostino Bausa (11 February 1889 – 15 April 1899)
• Alfonso Mistrangelo (19 June 1899 – 7 November 1930)
• Elia Dalla Costa (19 December 1931 – 22 December 1961)
• Ermenegildo Florit (9 March 1962 – 3 June 1977)
• Giovanni Benelli (3 June 1977 – 26 October 1982)
• Silvano Piovanelli (18 March 1983 – 21 March 2001)
• Ennio Antonelli (21 March 2001 – 7 June 2008)
• Giuseppe Betori (8 September 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.

Coordinates: 43°47′00″N 11°15′00″E / 43.7833°N 11.2500°E

1. Davies 1916, p. 366.