Archiepiscopal Chapel - one of the oldest churches in Ravenna, built in the late 5th - early 6th centuries by Emperor Theodoric on the ground floor of the episcopal palace. It is the smallest of the famous buildings of Ravenna, decorated with mosaics. Dedicated to the Apostle Andrew, in 1996, the chapel was added to the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

Archbishop's Chapel, Ravenna has the shape of a Greek cross, the eastern end of which ends with an apse. At the entrance is a rectangular porch vault is decorated with mosaic white lilies, roses and colorful birds. It is also decorated with mosaic lunette above the entrance to the chapel - here you can see a young soldier of Christ in Roman armor. In the apse survived another mosaic with the image of a cross on a background of the sky. On the vault painted monogram of Christ and the symbols of the evangelists. It is believed that a part of the image of Christ speaks of the desire to emphasize the chapel customer divine nature of Jesus, who reject the Goths-Arians.

To have survived not all original mosaics - some of them in the 16th century was covered with tempera painting Luca Longhi. In 1914, the chapel was restored by altering the input. Today, you can see inside the silver cross of the local archbishop Agnellusa with medallions of the 6th and 16th centuries.

Archiepiscopal Chapel is today the only surviving early Christian private chapel in Europe.