The Patriarch of Venice ( la, Patriarcha Venetiarum; it, Patriarca di Venezia) is the ordinary

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of the

Archdiocese of Venice The Patriarchate of Venice ( la, 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 ...

. The bishop is one of the few

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s in the

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of the Catholic Church (currently three other Latin bishops are accorded the title of Patriarch:

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, the

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and

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). Presently, the only advantage of this purely formal title is the bishop's place of honor in papal

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s. In the case of Venice, an additional privilege allows the patriarch, even if he is not a

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, the use of the colour red in non-liturgical vestments. In that case, the red biretta is topped by a tuft, as is the custom with other bishops who are not cardinals. The diocese of

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was created in 774 as

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of the

Patriarchate of Grado This is a list of the Patriarchs of Grado (north-eastern Italy).
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Translatio patriarchalis Ecclesiae Graden. ad civitatem Venetiarum, cum suppressione tituli eiusdem Ecclesiae Gradensis
, in: ''Bullarum, diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum pontificum Taurinensis editio'', vol. 5 (Turin: Franco et Dalmazzo, 1860), pp. 107–109. that, in consideration of the political influence of the city, its bishops were accorded the title of patriarch by the

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. By a relatively recent tradition, the Patriarch of Venice is created a

at the

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following his appointment, though nothing requires the pope to do so. The current patriarch

Francesco Moraglia Francesco Moraglia (born 25 May 1953) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been Patriarch of Venice since March 2012; he is the first native of Genoa to hold that position. He was bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato from 2008 to ...

remains an archbishop. In the last centuries of the

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(to 1797), exceptionally among Catholic bishops, the patriarch was elected by the

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, who always chose a member of one of the hereditary patrician families of the city, and usually a layman who was only ordained to take up the patriarchate. The papacy obliged them to pass an examination in theology, though many evaded this. Usually the new patriarch was a Venetian diplomat or administrator, as with

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in 1591 or Francesco Vendramin in 1608, though some were career clerics, who had usually been previously in positions in Rome, such as Federico Cornaro in 1631. The patriarchs normally remained in Venice, and in this period none were elected pope. Since the end of the republic, patriarchs have rarely been of Venetian origin, and three of them became pope in the 20th century alone:

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(1903),

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(1958) and

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(1978).

Ecclesiastical history

Early history

The Venetian islands at first belonged to the diocese of Altino or of Padua, under jurisdiction of the archbishop of Aquileia, believed to be the successor of St. Mark. During the Lombard invasion (568–572) many bishops of the invaded mainland escaped under protection of the

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fleet in the eastern lagoons. The archbishop himself took refuge in

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, where he was claimed as patriarch, during the

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. At the end of the invasion, many of the ancient dioceses of the mainland were restored by the Lombards, while the exiles supported the new sees in the lagoons. Two patriarchs emerged: the

Patriarchate of Old Aquileia The Patriarchate of Old Aquileia existed between 607 and 698 because of the Tricapitoline Schism in the Patriarchate of Aquileia. It was allied with the Arian Lombards, while the rival Patriarchate of Grado was allied with the Byzantine Empire. B ...

on the mainland and

Patriarchate of Grado This is a list of the Patriarchs of Grado (north-eastern Italy).
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and John IV, Patriarch of Grado, authorized the establishment of an episcopal see on the

island of Olivolo San Pietro di Castello ( vec, San Piero de Casteło), formerly Olivolo ( it, Olivòlo; vec, Ołivoło), is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, forming part of the Castello sestiere. It is linked to the main islands of Venice by ...

. The first bishop, Obelerius, was nominated, invested and enthroned by the

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and consecrated by the patriarch. The Bishop of Olivolo was subordinate to Grado and had jurisdiction over the islands of Olivolo,

Rialto The Rialto is a central area of Venice, Italy, in the ''sestiere'' of San Polo. It is, and has been for many centuries, the financial and commercial heart of the city. Rialto is known for its prominent markets as well as for the monumental Rialto ...

, Luprio, Gemini, Scopulo or

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, Spinalonga, Biria and other minor islands of the central group.The original source for this is

Andrea Dandolo Andrea Dandolo (13067 September 1354) was elected the 54th doge of Venice in 1343, replacing Bartolomeo Gradenigo who died in late 1342. Early life Trained in historiography and law, Andrea Dandolo studied at the University of Padua, where ...

's ''Chronica per extensum descripta'' (in: ''Rerum Italicarum Scriptores'', new ed., Bologna: Zanichelli, 1938, vol. 12, part 1, here: lib. VII, cap. 12, part. 16 on p. 121). Dandolo also states that these islands had previously been subordinated to the diocese of Met(h)amaucum. But as he wrote his chronicle almost six centuries after the fact and since both these assertions cannot be corroborated by any document, they have been called into question, see

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,
Rom und Venedig bis ins XII. Jahrhundert
, in: ''Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken'', vol. 19 (1927), pp. 1–180, here p. 43. See p. 41 for a similar lack of corroboration regarding the story, first attested in the ''Chronicon Altinate'' (written sometime between the 11th and 13th century) and repeated by Dandolo (''Chronica'', lib. VI, cap. 7, part. 14), that the dicocese of Met(h)amaucum was supposedly founded by the Bishop of Padua who is said to have taken refuge there during the Lombard invasion. The diocese's cathedral was

San Pietro di Castello San Pietro di Castello ( vec, San Piero de Casteło), formerly Olivolo ( it, Olivòlo; vec, Ołivoło), is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, forming part of the Castello sestiere. It is linked to the main islands of Venice by ...

. In 828 the body of Saint

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was smuggled from

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, Egypt, to Venice. When the ship reached

Olivolo island San Pietro di Castello ( vec, San Piero de Casteło), formerly Olivolo ( it, Olivòlo; vec, Ołivoło), is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, forming part of the Castello sestiere. It is linked to the main islands of Venice by ...

in Venice, the saint made signs (or so it was claimed) showing he did not want to be placed in the custody of the bishop. Instead, he was taken to the doge's chapel, and planning began to create a magnificent new temple,

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, suitable for such important relics. The legend that St. Mark himself had preached the Gospel at Venice grew up in later times. In 1074, the Bishop of Olivolo began to be styled the Bishop of Castello.

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was the first to hold this title. In 1084 the Emperor

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in his

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recognized the full independence of Venice, along with freedom from tributes, trade restrictions and customs duties. The Republic of Venice began its

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under the Doge

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(1192–1205). Under him the French Crusading army of the

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was used to bring

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and Zara under Venetian sway, and then to obtain a large part of the Latin Empire of Constantinople along the east coast of the Adriatic, most of the Peloponnesus and settlements in the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and the Aegean. The relationship between the bishop, the patriarch and the doge was complex. The bishops of Olivolo, and then Castello, were technically suffragans of the Patriarch of Grado. In practice they maintained independence. From the middle of the 11th century the patriarchs took up residence for most of the time at

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, while the bishop was based at San Pietro on the east of the city. An important role was played by the ''primicerio'', based in Saint Mark's, who represented the doge and the city government. The ''primicerio'' invested the bishops, abbots and patriarchs.

Patriarchate's history

In 1451, upon the death of Domenico Michel, Patriarch of Grado,

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suppressed the Patriarchate of Grado and the Diocese of Castello, incorporating them both in the new Patriarchate of Venice by the Papal Bull "Regis aeterni." Thus Venice succeeded to the whole metropolitan jurisdiction of Grado's ecclesiastical province, including the sees of

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. In 1466 the territory of the Patriarchate was expanded by merging the suppressed Diocese of Equilio. The election of the patriarch belonged to the Senate of Venice, and this practice sometimes led to differences between the republic and the Holy See. Likewise, parishioners elected their parish priests, by the

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. Girolamo Quirini, O.P. (1519–54), had many disputes with the clergy, the Government, and the Holy See. To avoid these disputes, the Senate decreed that in future only senators should be eligible. Those elected after this were frequently laymen. Giovanni Trevisano,

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(1560), introduced the Tridentine reforms, founding the seminary, holding synods and collecting the regulations made by his predecessors (Constitutiones et privilegia patriarchatus et cleri Venetiarum). In 1581 the ''visita Apostolica'' was sent to Venice; a ''libellus exhortatorius'' was published, in which the visita highly praised the clergy of Venice. In 1751,

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abolished the

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by creating two new archbishops in

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and

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. With this act the Patriarchate of Venice became sole heir to the throne of St. Mark in northeastern Italy. After 1797 and the

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under the rule of

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, the bishopric rule of the doge on the Basilica and St. Mark's relics was lacking. Then in 1807, by favor of the

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, the Neapolitan Nicola Gambroni was promoted to the Patriarchate and of his own authority transferred the patriarchal seat to the Basilica of St. Mark, uniting the two chapters. He also reduced the number of parish churches from seventy to thirty. The work of enlarging the choir of the basilica brought to light the relics of St. Mark in 1808. In 1811 Napoleon intruded into the See of Venice

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were merged in the Patriarchate of Venice, while the dioceses of the Venetian territory were placed under its metropolitan jurisdiction. Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, afterwards Pius X, succeeded in 1893; he was refused recognition by the Italian Government, which claimed the right of nomination formerly employed by the

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and in earlier times by the

, but after eleven months this pretension was abandoned. During the twentieth century, no less than three patriarchs of Venice achieved election as pope: Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, elected

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in 1903; Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected

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in 1958; and Albino Luciani, elected

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in 1978.

List of Patriarchs of Venice

* Saint Lawrence Giustiniani (1451–1456) * Maffio Contarini (1456–1460) * Andrea Bondimerio, O.S.A. (1460–1464) *

Gregorio Correr Gregorio Correr (Corraro) (1409 – 1464) was an Italian humanist and ecclesiastic from Venice. In the last year of his life he was elected Patriarch of Venice. Life He was born into a patrician family of Venice; Antonio Correr was his uncle. As ...

(1464) * Giovanni Barozzi (1465–1466) * Cardinal

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, O.S.B. (1466–1492) * Tomaso Dona, O.S.D. (1492–1504) * Antonio Soriano (1504–1508) * Alvise Contarini (1508) * Antonio Contarini (1508–1524) * Girolamo Quirino, O.S.D. (1524–1554) * PierFrancesco Contarini (1554–1555) * Vincenzo Diedo (1556–1559) * Giovanni Trevisano (1560–1590) * Cardinal

Lorenzo Priuli (cardinal) Lorenzo Priuli (1537–1600) was a Roman Catholic cardinal and Patriarch of Venice. Like many Venetian patriarchs, he was a lay member of the Venetian Senate, who was only ordained in 1590, at the age of 54, after he won the Senate's election t ...

(1591–1600) * Matteo Zane (1600–1605) * Cardinal Francesco Vendramin (1605/1608–1619) * Giovanni Tiepolo (1619–1631) * Cardinal

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(1631–1644) * Giovan Francesco Morosini (1644–1678) * Alvise Sagredo (1678–1688) * Cardinal

Giovanni Alberto Badoer Giovanni Alberto Badoer or ''Gianalberto Badoaro'' (12 May 1649 – 17 May 1714) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal who served as Patriarch of Venice and Bishop of Brescia. Life ...

(1688–1706) * Piero Barbarigo (1706–1725) * Marco Gradenigo (1725–1734) *

Francesco Antonio Correr Francesco Antonio Correr (7 October 1676 - 17 May 1741) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and patriarch. Life He was born in Venice into the Correr family. He was ordained a priest of the Capuchin Order on 16 April 1730 at Il Redentore. On 1 De ...

, 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,

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(1820–1827) * Cardinal

Giacomo Monico Giacomo Monico (1776–1851) was an Italian prelate who was named Patriarch of Venice in 1827 and Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal in 1833. Life Born in Riese Pio X, Riese, he was educated in the seminary of the diocese of Treviso and ordain ...

(1827–1851) * PierAurelio Mutti, O.S.B. (1852–1857) *

Angelo Ramazzotti Angelo Francesco Ramazzotti (3 August 1800 – 24 September 1861) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Patriarch of Venice. He established the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in 1850. Ramazzotti had served as the Bis ...

(1858–1861) * Cardinal

Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato (15 February 1801 – 28 April 1877) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who served as the Patriarch of Venice from 1862 until his death. Life Events

1801 births 1877 deaths 19th-century I ...

(1862–1877) * Cardinal

Domenico Agostini Domenico Agostini (31 May 1825 — 31 December 1891) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and Patriarch of Venice. Born near Treviso, he studied in the local seminary, then in the University of Padua. He took a doctorate of philosophy and law, b ...

(1877–1891) * Cardinal

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(1893–1903), elected

* Cardinal Aristide Cavallari (1904–1914) * Cardinal Pietro La Fontaine (1915–1935) * Cardinal

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, O.C.D. (1936–1948), appointed Prefect of the

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(1948–1952), was to have become Cardinal in 1953 * Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1953–1958), elected

* Cardinal

Giovanni Urbani Giovanni Urbani (26 March 1900 – 17 September 1969) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Patriarch of Venice from 1958 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. He was considered to be ov ...

(1958–1969) * Cardinal Albino Luciani (1969–1978), elected

* Cardinal

Marco Cé Marco Cé (; 8 July 1925 – 12 May 2014) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Patriarch of Venice from 1978 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979. Biography Marco Cé was born in Izano in 1925 to ...

(1979–2002) * Cardinal

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(2002–2011), appointed

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(2012–)

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