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In 1623, the Latin Province of the Holy Land was split into a number of smaller entities, called Custodies – creating Custodies of Cyprus, Syria, and the Holy Land proper. The Custody of the Holy Land included the monasteries of Saint-Jean-d'Acre, Antioch, Sidon, Tyre, Jerusalem and Jaffa. In 1847, a resident Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem ...
The custos thus chosen was called Custos custodum, ... The Custodian of the Holy Land is an appointed office in the Franciscan Order, which is approved by the Vatican.
Francesco Patton (born 23 December 1963) is an Italian friar who is the 168th Custodian of the Holy Land, an office to which he acceded in May 2016 and has been renewed triennially since. [1] [2] Patton was born in Trento, Italy and earned a Licentiate from the Pontifical Salesian University. He was ordained in 1989. [3]
In 1113, they became consubstantial with the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre after their recognition by Pope Paschal II, as a military branch, Militi Sancti Sepulcri; after 1291, the Knighthood was awarded to prominent pilgrims by the Custos of the Holy Land. [9] Reorganised as Sacred and Military Order of the Holy Sepulchre in 1496 by Pope ...
The alms taken up by the bishops at the annual collections for the Holy Land are conveyed to the custos in Jerusalem through the commissary in whose district the dioceses of the bishops are situated. There were in the early 20th century forty commissariats throughout the Christian world, the most ancient being that of Naples, founded in 1333 ...
In 1342, Pope Clement VI officially committed the care of the Holy Land to the Franciscans [7] and the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Lands (the grand masters of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre) held the title ex officio under the papal bull Gratiam agimus by Clement VI, unless someone was specifically appointed to the honorary office.
Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM (born 21 April 1965) is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since 6 November 2020. [1] A Franciscan friar, he served as Custos of the Holy Land from 2004 to 2016 and as Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate from 2016 to 2020.
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