Patriarchate of Venice

Catholic patriarchate in Italy
Patriarchate of Venice

Patriarchatus Venetiarum

Patriarcato di Venezia
St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
Location
CountryItaly
Ecclesiastical provinceVenice
Statistics
Area871 km2 (336 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2015)
384,469
327,000 (85.1%)
Parishes128
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established774
CathedralBasilica Cattedrale Patriarchale di S. Marco
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
PatriarchFrancesco Moraglia
Map
Website
www.patriarcatovenezia.it

The Patriarchate of Venice (Latin: Patriarchatus Venetiarum), also sometimes called the Archdiocese of Venice, is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or patriarchal archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Venice, Italy. In 1451 the Patriarchate of Grado was merged with the Bishopric of Castello and Venice to form the Archdiocese of Venice.

The ordinary of the archdiocese is the Patriarch of Venice, who has traditionally been created a cardinal in consistory by the Pope. Immediately upon installation in office, however, the Patriarch of Venice has the right to wear scarlet vesture (like a cardinal) whether or not he has yet been elevated to the College of Cardinals. The mother church of the archdiocese is the St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

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]


Patriarchs of Venice

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. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
  • 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). Vol. 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). Vol. 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). Vol. 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). Vol. Tomo primo. Venice.
  • Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1851). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. Tomo secondo. Venezia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1853). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. Terzo. Venezia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1850). Storia della chiesa di Venezia dalla sua fondazione sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. Tomo sesto. Venice.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1855). Le chiese d'Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Vol. 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). Vol. II. Venice: Tip S. Marco.

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