Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice

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]

Ordinaries

References

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