Antonio Anastasio Rossi (18 July 1864 – 29 March 1948) was an Italian
Roman Catholic
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prelate
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Rossi was
Archbishop of Udine
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from 8 January 1910 to 1927.
On 19 December 1927, was appointed
Prelate of Pompei and
Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, and served in those roles until his death in 1948.
In the 1930s, as prelate he expanded the
Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei
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to accommodate the increasing number of pilgrims, and increased its social outreach among the poor and orphans. He was the last Latin Patriarch of Constantinople: the
titular see
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was suppressed in 1964 without a successor being appointed.
Rossi died on 29 March 1948, aged 83, and is entombed in the crypt of the Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei.
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1864 births
1948 deaths
Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
Bishops in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Territorial prelates
Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople