Bronx City Councilman Fernando Cabrera is petitioning Mayor Bloomberg to include prayer in next week’s ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — joining a chorus of the city’s religious leaders criticizing the mayor for excluding them from the memorial service.

During a radio broadcast last month, Bloomberg said the ceremony will feature a small group of current and former elected officials who will read pre-selected, nonreligious poems or texts.

Those scheduled to participate include: President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christi, former New York Gov. George Pataki, former mayor Rudy Guliani and Bloomberg himself.

“There’s an awful lot of people who would like to participate, and you just can’t do that,” Bloomberg said.

A spokeswoman for the mayor’s office told the Wall Street Journal and several other news outlets that there are no plans to amend the ceremony, and that religious rituals have never been included in any of the yearly memorials.

“It has been widely supported for the past 10 years and rather than have disagreements over which religious leaders participate, we would like to keep the focus of our commemoration ceremony on the family members of those who died,” said spokeswoman Evelyn Erskine.

But Cabrera, himself a pastor at the New Life Outreach International Church on Morris Avenue, is personally crusading against Bloomberg’s stance. He’s gone on a number of television news shows over the last few weeks to discuss the issue and started an online petition (at press time, it had some 700 signatures).

“During 9/11, the faith community served as pillars for many New Yorkers coping with the tragedy. As a pastor during the tumultuous aftermath, I know firsthand that it was a time where people were searching for meaning and things bigger than themselves,” Cabrera said in a statement. “People’s faith helped fill this void and continues to serve as spiritual and emotional support.”