Roman Catholic Diocese of Imola

Diocese of Imola Dioecesis Imolensis
Cathedral of Imola
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Bologna
Statistics
Area	740 km2 (290 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 143,460 (est.) 136,280 (guess)
Parishes	108
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4th Century
Cathedral	Basilica Cattedrale di S. Cassiano Martire
Secular priests	77 (diocesan) 17 (religious Orders) 17 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Giovanni Mosciatti
Bishops emeritus	Tommaso Ghirelli
Website
www.diocesiimola.it (in Italian)

The Diocese of Imola (Latin: Diocesis Imolensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Romagna, northern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bologna.^[1][2] The diocese had originally been a suffragan of the metropolitan of Milan, and was then subject to the Archbishop of Ravenna until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII made Bologna an archbishopric and assigned it two suffragans, Imola and Cervia. In 1604, however, Pope Clement VIII returned them to the metropolitanate of Ravenna.^[3] Pope Pius VII transferred Imola back to the metropolitanate of Bologna.

The diocese of Imola is noted for having had a number of its bishops elected to the Papacy, including Cardinal Fabio Chigi (1652), afterwards Pope Alexander VII; Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti (1785), afterwards Pope Pius VII; and Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (1832), afterwards Pope Pius IX.