Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice

Patriarchate of Venice Patriarchatus Venetiarum Patriarcato di Venezia
File:55BasilicaSMarco.jpg St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
Location
Country	Italy
Ecclesiastical province	Venice
Statistics
Area
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
File:Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Venice in Italy.svg
Website
patriarcatovenezia.it

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, also known as 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.

Ordinaries

• Gianalberto Badoaro † (27 Sep 1688 Appointed - 7 Jun 1706 Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Brescia)
• Francesco Antonio Correr, O.F.M. Cap. † (1 Dec 1734 Appointed - 17 May 1741 Died)
• Aloysius Foscari † (3 Jul 1741 Appointed - 28 Oct 1758 Died)
• Giovanni Bragadino (Bragadin) † (27 Nov 1758 Appointed - 23 Dec 1775 Died)
• Federico Maria Giovanelli † (20 May 1776 Appointed - 10 Jan 1800 Died)
• Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli † (23 Dec 1801 Appointed - 29 Feb 1804 Died)
• Nicolò Saverio Gamboni † (24 Aug 1807 Appointed - 21 Oct 1808 Died)
• Francesco Milesi † (23 Sep 1816 Appointed - 18 Sep 1819 Died)
• Ján Krstitel Ladislav Pyrker (Pryker), O. Cist. † (2 Oct 1820 Appointed - 9 Apr 1827 Appointed, Archbishop of Eger)
• Giacomo Monico † (9 Apr 1827 Appointed - 25 Apr 1851 Died)
• Giovanni-Pietro-Aurelio Mutti, O.S.B. † (15 Mar 1852 Appointed - 9 Apr 1857 Died)
• Angelo Ramazzotti † (15 Mar 1858 Appointed - 24 Sep 1861 Died)
• Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato † (7 Apr 1862 Appointed - 28 Apr 1877 Died)
• Domenico Agostini † (22 Jun 1877 Appointed - 31 Dec 1891 Died)
• St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (15 Jun 1893 Appointed - 4 Aug 1903 Elected, Pope Pius X)
• Aristide Cavallari † (13 Mar 1904 Appointed - 24 Nov 1914 Died)
• Pietro La Fontaine † (5 Mar 1915 Appointed - 9 Jul 1935 Died)
• Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, O.C.D. † (16 Dec 1935 Appointed - 1 Oct 1948 Appointed, Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation)
• Carlo Agostini † (5 Feb 1949 Appointed - 28 Dec 1952 Died)
• St. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli † (15 Jan 1953 Appointed - 28 Oct 1958 Elected, Pope John XXIII)
• Giovanni Urbani † (11 Nov 1958 Appointed - 17 Sep 1969 Died)
• Albino Luciani † (15 Dec 1969 Appointed - 26 Aug 1978 Elected, Pope John Paul I)
• Marco Cé † (7 Dec 1978 Appointed - 5 Jan 2002 Retired)
• Angelo Scola (5 Jan 2002 Appointed - 28 June 2011 Appointed, Archbishop of Milan)
• Francesco Moraglia (31 Jan 2012 Appointed - incumbent)