Voghiera (Ferrarese: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the northeastern Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northeast of Bologna and about southeast of Ferrara.
As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,924 and an area of .
Remarkable the Delizia di Belriguardo, a House of Este residence.
The municipality of Voghiera contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Ducentola, Gualdo, Montesanto and Voghenza (a former bishopric).
Voghiera borders the following municipalities: Argenta, Ferrara, Masi Torello and Portomaggiore.
Of these, Voghenza (in Latin, Vicohabentia) was once a residential bishopric, believed to have been renamed, due to a see shift, in 950 as Diocese of Ferrara (now Metropolitan Archdiocese of FerraraâÂÂComacchio). See also: Maurelius of Voghenza
It is now included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.
In 1966, the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Voghenza (Curiate Italian) or Vicohabentia in Latin, adjective Vicohabentin(us).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal promotion in this title as exception: