Francesco Antonio Correr
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Francesco Antonio Correr (7 October 1676 - 17 May 1741) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and patriarch.


Life

He was born in Venice into the
Correr The House of Correr or Corraro was a major Patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician family in the history of the Republic of Venice. The family belonged to the Venetian nobility. History Said to have originated in Torcello, the family moved t ...
family. He was ordained a priest of the
Capuchin Order The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFMObs, now OFM), the o ...
on 16 April 1730 at
Il Redentore The Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (), commonly known as Il Redentore, is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located on Giudecca (island) in the ''sestiere'' of Dorsoduro, in the city of Venice, Italy. It was designed by Italian Renaissance ...
. On 1 December 1734 he was made
Patriarch of Venice The Patriarch of Venice (; ) is the ordinary of the Patriarchate of Venice. The bishop is one of only four patriarchs in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. The other three are the Patriarch of Lisbon, the Patriarch of the East Indies an ...
and was consecrated as a bishop on 30 June the following year. He died in 1741 at Villa Correr in Altaura, near
Montagnana Montagnana is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Padova, in Veneto (northern Italy). Neighbouring communes are Borgo Veneto, Casale di Scodosia, Urbana, Bevilacqua, Pojana Maggiore, Pressana, Minerbe and Roveredo di Guà. , the popul ...
. His body was taken to Venice and buried in
St Mark's Basilica The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica (; ), is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cath ...
.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Correr, Francesco Antonio 1676 births 1741 deaths Patriarchs of Venice Francesco Antonio Capuchin bishops