Patriarchate of Venice Patriarchatus Venetiarum Patriarcato di Venezia |
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St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Venice |
Statistics | |
Area | 871 km2 (336 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2012) 376,399 348,922 (92.7%) |
Parishes | 128 |
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Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 774 |
Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale Patriachale di S. Marco |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Patriarch | Francesco Moraglia |
Map | |
Website | |
www.patriarcatovenezia.it |
The Patriarchate of Venice, (Latin: Patriarchatus Venetiarum), sometimes called the Archdiocese of Venice, is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Italy.
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.