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Ecclesiastical province
  
Venice

Denomination
  
Catholic Church

Established
  
774

Country
  
Italy

Cathedral
  
Saint Mark's Basilica

Parishes
  
128

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Area
  
871 km²

Bishop
  
Francesco Moraglia

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2012) 376,399 348,922 (92.7%)

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

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The ordinary of the archdiocese is the Patriarch of Venice, who is traditionally created a cardinal in consistory by the Pope. The mother church of the archdiocese is the Basilica di San Marco in Venezia.

As a metropolitan see, the Archdiocese of Venice is the chief diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Venezia. Its suffragan dioceses include Adria-Rovigo, Belluno-Feltre, Chioggia, Concordia-Pordenone, Padova, Treviso, Verona, Vicenza, and Vittorio Veneto.

Patriarchs of Venice

  • Gianalberto Badoaro (27 Sep 1688 Appointed - 7 Jun 1706 Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Brescia)
  • Francesco Antonio Correr, O.F.M. Cap. (1 Dec 1734 Appointed - 17 May 1741 Died)
  • Aloysius Foscari (3 Jul 1741 Appointed - 28 Oct 1758 Died)
  • Giovanni Bragadino (Bragadin) (27 Nov 1758 Appointed - 23 Dec 1775 Died)
  • Federico Maria Giovanelli (20 May 1776 Appointed - 10 Jan 1800 Died)
  • Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli (23 Dec 1801 Appointed - 29 Feb 1804 Died)
  • Nicolò Saverio Gamboni (24 Aug 1807 Appointed - 21 Oct 1808 Died)
  • Francesco Milesi (23 Sep 1816 Appointed - 18 Sep 1819 Died)
  • Ján Krstitel Ladislav Pyrker (Pryker), O. Cist. (2 Oct 1820 Appointed - 9 Apr 1827 Appointed, Archbishop of Eger)
  • Giacomo Monico (9 Apr 1827 Appointed - 25 Apr 1851 Died)
  • Giovanni-Pietro-Aurelio Mutti, O.S.B. (15 Mar 1852 Appointed - 9 Apr 1857 Died)
  • Angelo Ramazzotti (15 Mar 1858 Appointed - 24 Sep 1861 Died)
  • Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato (7 Apr 1862 Appointed - 28 Apr 1877 Died)
  • Domenico Agostini (22 Jun 1877 Appointed - 31 Dec 1891 Died)
  • Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (15 Jun 1893 Appointed - 4 Aug 1903 Elected, Pope Pius X)
  • Aristide Cavallari (13 Mar 1904 Appointed - 24 Nov 1914 Died)
  • Pietro La Fontaine (5 Mar 1915 Appointed - 9 Jul 1935 Died)
  • Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, O.C.D. (16 Dec 1935 Appointed - 1 Oct 1948)
  • Carlo Agostini (5 Feb 1949 Appointed - 28 Dec 1952 Died)
  • Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (15 Jan 1953 Appointed - 28 Oct 1958 Elected, Pope John XXIII)
  • Giovanni Urbani (11 Nov 1958 Appointed - 17 Sep 1969 Died)
  • Albino Luciani (15 Dec 1969 Appointed - 26 Aug 1978 Elected, Pope John Paul I)
  • Marco Cé † (7 Dec 1978 Appointed - 5 Jan 2002 Retired)
  • Angelo Scola (5 Jan 2002 Appointed - 28 June 2011 Appointed, Archbishop of Milan)
  • Francesco Moraglia (31 Jan 2012 Appointed - incumbent)

    • 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). 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. 

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