The Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople was an office established as a result of the

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and its

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in 1204. It was a

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replacement for the

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and remained in the city until the

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by the Byzantines in 1261, whereupon it became a

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. The office was abolished in 1964.

History

In the early middle ages, there were five patriarchs in the Christian world. In descending order of precedence:

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by the

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(who rarely used the title "Patriarch") and those of

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Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; , ) "Antioch on Daphne"; or "Antioch the Great"; ; ; ; ; ; ; . was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, it served as ...

, and

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. The sees of Rome and Constantinople were often at odds with one another, just as the Greek and Latin Churches as a whole were often at odds both politically and in things ecclesiastical. There were complex cultural currents underlying these difficulties. The tensions led in 1054 to a serious rupture between the

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called the

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, which while not in many places absolute, still dominates the ecclesiastical landscape. In 1204, the

invaded, seized and sacked Constantinople, and established the

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, who was not involved, initially spoke out against the Crusade, writing in a letter to his legate, "How, indeed, is the Greek church to be brought back into ecclesiastical union and to a devotion for the Apostolic See when she has been beset with so many afflictions and persecutions that she sees in the Latins only an example of perdition and the works of darkness, so that she now, and with reason, detests the Latins more than dogs?" However the popes accepted the Latin patriarchate established by Catholic clergy that accompanied the Crusade, similar to Latin patriarchates previously established in the

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of the

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. The pope recognised these "

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" sees at the

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. Furthermore, those Orthodox bishops left in their place were made to swear an oath of allegiance to the pope. However, the Latin Empire in Constantinople was eventually defeated and dispossessed by a resurgent

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in 1261. Since that time Latin Patriarch

Pantaleonе Giustinian Pantaleone Giustinian (before 1229 – 1286) was a Venetian nobleman and cleric, who served as the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople from 1253 until his death. Pantaleone Giustinian was the son of Philip Giustinian, lord of the Greek islands of ...

(d. 1286) resided in the West, though continuing to oversee the remaining Latin Catholic dioceses in various parts of

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. The continuing threat of a Catholic Crusade to restore the Latin Empire, championed by the ambitious

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, led to the first attempts, on the Byzantine side, to effect a Union of the Churches. After the

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John Bekkos John XI Bekkos (also Beccus; Greek: Ἰωάννης Βέκκος; 1225 – March 1297) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 2 June 1275 to 26 December 1282, and the chief Greek advocate, in Byzantine times, of the reunion of the Eastern Orthodo ...

was installed as a Greek Catholic Patriarch of Constantinople in 1275, but that did not affect the position of Pantaleonе Giustinian. His Greek Catholic counterpart was deposed in 1282 by

hierarchy, thus ending a short-lived union. in 1286, Latin Patriarch Pantaleonе Giustinian was succeeded by Pietro Correr who was the first holder of that office in a new form of a

. On 8 February 1314,

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united the Patriarchate with the episcopal see of Negroponte (

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), hitherto a

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of the Latin Archbishopric of Athens, so that the patriarchs could once more have a territorial diocese on Greek soil and exercise a direct role as the head of the Latin clergy in what remained of

. For a time, like many ecclesiastical offices in the West, it had rival contenders who were supporters or protégés of the rival popes. As to the title Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, this was the case at least from 1378 to 1423. Thereafter the office continued as an honorific title, during the later centuries attributed to a leading clergyman in Rome, until it ceased to be assigned after 1948 and in January 1964, along with the titles of the

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and

, it was no longer mentioned in the Vatican yearbook (rather than being announced as being abolished). This was after

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met with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (see Pope Paul VI and ecumenism), showing the Latin Church by this point was more interested in reconciliation with the Eastern Church, abolishing the titular title. A

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(until 1990, Constantinople) has existed from 1742 into the present day.

List of Latin patriarchs of Constantinople

* Tommaso Morosini (1204–1211)"Constantinople (Titular See)"
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''. David M. Cheney. retrieved March 24, 2016"Titular Patriarchal See of Constantinople"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 24, 2016 ** ''Vacant'' (1211–1215) * Gervasio (1215–1219) ** ''Vacant'' (1219–1221) * Matteo (1221–1226) * Jean Halgrin (1226), declined office * Simon of Maugastel (1227–1233) ** ''Vacant'' (1233–1234) * Niccolò Visconti da Castro Arquato (1234–1251) ** ''Vacant'' (1251–1253) *

(1253–1286); After 1261, resided in the West * Pietro Correr (1286–1302) * Leonardo Faliero (1302–c. 1305) * Nicholas of Thebes (c. 1308–c. 1335), later cardinal (1332–1335) * (1335–1339) *

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(1339) (died immediately) * Enrico d'Asti (1339–1345), bishop of Negroponte *

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(1346) *

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(1346–1364) * Pierre Thomas (1364–1366) *

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(1366–1370) * Ugolino Malabranca de Orvieto (1371–c. 1375), bishop of Rimini * (1376–1378), archbishop of Otranto *

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(1379/80–1384) ** ''Vacant'' (1384–1390) *

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(1390–1405), later Pope Gregory XII * Louis of Mytilene (Ludovico? Luiz?) (1406–1408) * Antonio Correr (1408) *

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(1408) *

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(1409), patriarch of

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* Giovanni Contarini (1409–c. 1412) Contarini was at the

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in November 1414. *

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(1412–1423) * Giovanni Contarini (1424–1430?), restored * François de Conzié (1430–1432) ** ''Vacant'' (1432–1438) * Francesco Condulmer (1438–1453) * Gregory Mammas (1453–1458), formerly Orthodox

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as Gregory III *

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(1458–1462) *

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(1463–1472) *

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(1472–1474) * Girolamo Lando (1474–c. 1496), Archbishop of Crete * Giovanni Michiel (1497–1503) Bishop of Verona, later Cardinal * Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor (1503) * Francisco Galcerán de Lloris y de Borja (1503–1506) *

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(1506–1507) *

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(1507–1521) *

(1521–1524), restored *

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(1524–1530),

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* Francesco Pesaro (1530–1545) Archbishop of Zadar * Marino Grimani (1545–1546) * Ranuccio Farnese (1546–1550) *

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(1550–1554), bishop of

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* Ranuccio Farnese (1554–1565) restored *

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(1565–1573)

of Albano * Prospero Rebiba (1573–1593) Bishop of Troia *

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(1594–1596) * Ercole Tassoni (1596–1597) *

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(1598–1627?) * Bonaventura Secusio (1599–1618)"Patriarch Bonaventura Secusio, O.F.M. Obs."
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 30, 2016 * Ascanio Gesualdo (1618–1638)"Patriarch Ascanio Gesualdo"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016 * Francesco Maria Macchiavelli (1640–1641) * Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli (1641–1643) * Giovanni Battista Spada (1643–1675?) *

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(1658–1660), later Cardinal *

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(1667–1681) * Odoardo Cibo (Cybo) (1689–1706?), titular archbishop of

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in Isauria * Luigi Pico della Mirandola (1706–1712) * Andrea Riggio (1716–1717) * Camillo Cibo (Cybo) (1718–1729) * Mondillo Orsini (1729–1751) * Ferdinando Maria de Rossi (1751–1759) * Filippo Caucci (1760–1771) * Juan Portugal de la Puebla (1771–1781), later cardinal * Francesco Antonio Marcucci (1781–1798) * Benedetto Fenaja (1805–1823) *

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(1823–1835) * Cardinal Giovanni Soglia Ceroni (1835–1839) * Antonio Maria Traversi (1839–1842) *

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(1843) * Cardinal Fabio Maria Asquini (1844–1845) * Giovanni Giuseppe Canali (1845–1851) * Domenico Lucciardi (1851–1860) *

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(1860–1865) *

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(1866–1878) * Giacomo Gallo (1878–1881) ** ''Vacant'' (1881–1887) * Giulio Lenti (1887–1895) *Cardinal Giovanni Battista Casali del Drago (1895–1899) *Cardinal Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella (1899–1901) * Cardinal Carlo Nocella (1901–1903), died 1908, former

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(1903–1917) ** ''Vacant'' (1917–1923) * Michele Zezza di Zapponeta (1923–1927) * Antonio Anastasio Rossi (1927–1948) * ''Vacancy from 1948 until the Latin titular patriarchate was abolished in 1964''.

References

Sources and external links

* Giorgio Fedalto, ''La Chiesa latina in Oriente'', Mazziana, Verona, 2nd ed. 1981, e vol. * * *
List of Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople
by GCatholic.org

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History

List of Latin patriarchs of Constantinople

See also

References

Sources and external links