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) 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.