Patriarchate of Venice

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Patriarchate of Venice

Patriarchatus Venetiarum

Patriarcato di Venezia
St. Mark's Basilica, St Mark's Square, Venice, Italy.jpg
St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
Location
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Venice
Statistics
Area871 km2 (336 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2015)
384,469
327,000 (85.1%)
Parishes128
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established774
Cathedral Basilica Cattedrale Patriarchale di S. Marco
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Patriarch Francesco Moraglia
Map
Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Venice in Italy.svg
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.

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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 vestments (like a cardinal) whether or not he has yet been elevated to the College of Cardinals. 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]

Patriarchs of Venice

Archbishop Francesco Moraglia (incumbent) wearing a cardinal's scarlet vestment Moraglia Mira 4.JPG
Archbishop Francesco Moraglia (incumbent) wearing a cardinal's scarlet vestment

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

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