We give a systematic method to construct self-injective algebras which are d-representation-finite in the sense of higher-dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory. Such algebras are given as orbit algebras of the repetitive categories of algebras of finite global dimension satisfying a certain finiteness condition for the Serre functor. The condition holds, in particular, for all fractionally Calabi-Yau algebras of global dimension at most d. This generalizes Riedtmann's classical construction of representation-finite self-injective algebras. Our method is based on an adaptation of Gabriel's covering theory for k-linear categories to the setting of higher-dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory.Applications include n-fold trivial extensions and higher preprojective algebras, which are shown to be d-representation-finite in many cases. We also get a complete classification of all d-representation-finite self-injective Nakayama algebras for arbitrary d.An autoequivalence φ of a Krull-Schmidt category C is said to be admissible if φ i acts freely on isomorphism classes of indecomposable objects in C for all i > 0. For C = Λ, this is equivalent to Λ/φ being a finite-dimensional algebra (see Lemma 3.4).The aim of the present paper is to generalize Riedmann's construction from the point of view of higher-dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory.After Gabriel's and Riedtmann's seminal results, the theory of representation-finite algebras over algebraically closed fields had two culmination points. One is the paper [14] by Bautista-Gabriel-Roiter-Salmeron showing that it is a finite problem, concerning the combinatorics of ray categories, to determine whether or not a given algebra is representation finite (see also [24, Chapters 13,14]). The other one is the characterization of Auslander-Reiten quivers of representation-finite algebras by Igusa-Todorov [34] and Brenner [16] (see also [35]). In view of Auslander's bijection [9] between representation-finite algebras and Auslander algebras (that is, algebras of global dimension at most two and dominant dimension at least two), the latter result can be seen as a structure theorem for Auslander algebras.Seeking to generalize Auslander's result, one is naturally led to consider d-Auslander-algebras, i.e., algebras of global dimension at most d + 1 and dominant dimension at least d + 1. Such algebras correspond bijectively to equivalence classes of so-called d-cluster-tilting modules [37] (see Definition 2.1) below. The question thus occurs if there are generalizations of the fundamental results about representation-finite algebras to algebras possessing a d-cluster-tilting module, that is, to d-representation-finite algebras. Significant progess in this and related directions has been made in recent years; see, for example, [5,25,28,29,31,32,39,40,41,43,44,45,46,50,52,53].The fundamental idea of this paper is to construct d-representation-finite self-injective algebras as orbit algebras of the repetitive categories of certain algebras Λ of finite global dimension, called ν d -finite algeb...