Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice

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The Roman Catholic 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. ^[1]

[edit] 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 of Rome)
• 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)
• Bl. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli † (15 Jan 1953 Appointed - 28 Oct 1958 Elected, Pope of Rome)
• Giovanni Urbani † (11 Nov 1958 Appointed - 17 Sep 1969 Died)
• Albino Luciani † (15 Dec 1969 Appointed - 26 Aug 1978 Elected, Pope of Rome)
• Marco Cé (7 Dec 1978 Appointed - 5 Jan 2002 Retired)
• Angelo Scola (5 Jan 2002 Appointed - )

[edit] References

1. ^ Archdiocese of Venezia, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, url accessed May 22, 2006

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