Patriarchate of Venice

The Patriarchate of Venice (Latin: Patriarchatus Venetiarum), sometimes called the Archdiocese of Venice, is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy.

Patriarchate of Venice Patriarchatus Venetiarum Patriarcato di Venezia
St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Venice
Statistics
Area	871 km^2 (336 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2015) 384,469 327,000 (85.1%)
Parishes	128
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	774
Cathedral	Basilica Cattedrale Patriachale di S. Marco
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Patriarch	Francesco Moraglia
Map
Website
www.patriarcatovenezia.it

The ordinary of the archdiocese is the Patriarch of Venice, who was traditionally created a cardinal in consistory by the Pope. Pope Francis does not create cardinals as "automatically" as his predecessors used to, thus the present Archbishop, Francesco Moraglia, is not a cardinal. The Patriarch of Venice has, however, the right to wear cardinal's scarlet vestment. The mother church of the archdiocese is the Basilica di San Marco in Venezia.

As a metropolitan see, the Patriarch of Venice is the metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Venice. Its suffragan dioceses include Adria-Rovigo, Belluno-Feltre, Chioggia, Concordia-Pordenone, Padova, Treviso, Verona, Vicenza, and Vittorio Veneto.[1]

History

In 1451 the Patriarchate of Grado was merged with the Bishopric of Castello and Venice to form the Archdiocese of Venice.

Patriarchs of Venice

• Cardinal Giovanni Alberto Badoer (1688–1706)
• Piero Barbarigo (1706–1725)
• Marco Gradenigo (1725–1734)
• Francesco Antonio Correr, O.F.M. Cap. (1734–1741)
• Aloysius Foscari (1741–1758)
• Giovanni Bragadin (1758–1775)
• Fridericus Maria Giovanelli (1776–1800)
• Cardinal Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli (1801–1804)
• Nicolò Saverio Gamboni (1807–1808)
• Francesco Milesi (1815–1819)
• Ján Ladislaus Pyrker, O. Cist. (1820–1827), appointed Archbishop of Eger
• Cardinal Giacomo Monico (1827–1851)
• Pier Aurelio Mutti, O.S.B. (1852–1857)
• Angelo Ramazzotti (1858–1861)
• Cardinal Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato (1862–1877)
• Cardinal Domenico Agostini (1877–1891)
• Cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (1893–1903), elected Pope
• Cardinal Aristide Cavallari (1904–1914)
• Cardinal Pietro La Fontaine (1915–1935)
• Cardinal Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1936–1948)
• Carlo Agostini (1948–1952), died as Cardinal-designate
• Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1953–1958), elected Pope
• Cardinal Giovanni Urbani (1958–1969)
• Cardinal Albino Luciani (1969–1978), elected Pope
• Cardinal Marco Cé (1979–2002)
• Cardinal Angelo Scola (2002–2011), appointed Archbishop of Milan
• Francesco Moraglia (2012–)

Archbishop Francesco Moraglia (incumbent) wearing a cardinal's scarlet vestment

References

1. Archdiocese of Venezia, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, url accessed May 22, 2006

Books

Reference Works

• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link) (in Latin)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link) (in Latin)
• Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 946–947. (Use with caution; obsolete)
• Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. (in Latin)
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. (in Latin)
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. (in Latin)
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1968). Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi sive summorum pontificum, S. R. E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series... A pontificatu Pii PP. VII (1800) usque ad pontificatum Gregorii PP. XVI (1846) (in Latin). Volume VII. Monasterii: Libr. Regensburgiana.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Pirminus Sefrin (1978). Hierarchia catholica Medii et recentioris aevi... A Pontificatu PII PP. IX (1846) usque ad Pontificatum Leonis PP. XIII (1903) (in Latin). Volume VIII. Il Messaggero di S. Antonio.
• Pięta, Zenon (2002). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi... A pontificatu Pii PP. X (1903) usque ad pontificatum Benedictii PP. XV (1922) (in Latin). Volume IX. Padua: Messagero di San Antonio. ISBN 978-88-250-1000-8.

Studies

• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1849). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Tomo primo. Venice.
• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1851). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Tomo secondo. Venezia.
• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1853). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Volume Terzo. Venezia.
• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1850). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Tomo sesto. Venice.
• Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1855). Le chiese d'Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Tomo IX. Venice: G. Antonelli.
• Lentz, Harris M. III (2001). Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary. London: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4101-3.
• Orsoni, Alessandro (1833). Serie cronologica dei cardinali veneziani tratta dalle memorie inedite (in Italian). Venezia: Picotti.
• Piva, Vittorio (1938). Il Patriarcato di Venezia e le sue origini (in Italian). Venice: tip. San Marco.
• Piva, Vittorio (1960). Il Patriarcato di Venezia e le sue origini: libro 2 (in Italian). Volume II. Venice: Tip S. Marco.