Patriarchate of Venice

Patriarchate of Venice Patriarchatus Venetiarum Patriarcato di Venezia
St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
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
Information
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) 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.