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www.patriarcatovenezia.it. The Patriarchate of Venice (Italian: Patriarcato di Venezia; Latin: Patriarchatus Venetiarum), also sometimes called the Archdiocese of Venice, is a patriarchate of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, located in the Metropolitan City of Venice. Its episcopal seat is in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Mark in Venice.
The Patriarch of Venice (Latin: Patriarcha Venetiarum; Italian: Patriarca di Venezia) is the ordinary bishop of the Archdiocese of Venice. The bishop is one of only four patriarchs in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church. The other three are the Patriarch of Lisbon, the Patriarch of the East Indies and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Venetian nobility. Coat of arms of the Republic of Venice, featuring the Lion of Saint Mark. The Great Council in a voting session at the Doge's Palace, 1648. The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided ...
He was born in Venice on 13 July 1503 to the patrician Paolo di Andrea Trevisan and Anna di Giovanni Emo. [1] He entered the Benedictine Order and, after graduating in utroque iure at the University of Padua, in 1530 he became abbot of the monastery of San Cipriano in Murano, succeeding his paternal uncle of the same name who had renounced the ...
Z. Matteo Zane. Categories: History of Venice after 1797. Republic of Venice clergy. Bishops of Venice. Roman Catholic archbishops in Italy by diocese. Patriarchs in Italy. Latin patriarchs.
Contarini. The Contarini is one of the founding families of Venice [1][2] and one of the oldest families of the Italian Nobility. [2] In total eight Doges to the Republic of Venice emerged from this family, [2][3][4] as well as 44 Procurators of San Marco, [3] numerous ambassadors, diplomats and other notables.
The following is a list of all 120 of the Doges of Venice ordered by the dates of their reigns. For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice and later of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge , a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux .
The exiled Patriarch of Grado, Fortunatus, returns to Venice from the court of Charlemagne at Aachen and proposes that, in return for his being re-instated at Grado, and the Doge's acceptance of the authority of Charlemagne (who was crowned Emperor of the West by the Pope on Xmas Day AD 800) the Venetians could count on the protection of the ...