Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople
TheLatin Patriarchate of Constantinoplewas an office established as a result of theFourth Crusadeand itsconquest of Constantinoplein 1204. It was aRoman Catholicreplacement for theEastern OrthodoxEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinopleand remained in the city until thereconquest of Constantinopleby the Byzantines in 1261, whereupon it became atitular see.The office was abolished in 1964.
History
[edit]In the early middle ages, there were five patriarchs in the Christian world. In descending order of precedence:Romeby theBishop of Rome(who rarely used the title "Patriarch" ) and those ofConstantinople,Alexandria,Antioch,andJerusalem.
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 theGreek East and Latin Westcalled theEast–West Schism,which while not in many places absolute, still dominates the ecclesiastical landscape.
In 1204, theFourth Crusadeinvaded,seized and sacked Constantinople,and established theLatin Empire.Pope Innocent III,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?"[1][2]However the popes accepted the Latin patriarchate established by Catholic clergy that accompanied the Crusade, similar to Latin patriarchates previously established in theCrusader statesof theHoly Land.The pope recognised these "Latin"sees at theFourth Council of the Lateran.Furthermore, those Orthodox bishops left in their place were made to swear an oath of allegiance to the pope.[3]
However, the Latin Empire in Constantinople was eventuallydefeated and dispossessedby a resurgentByzantiumin 1261. Since that time Latin PatriarchPantaleonе Giustinian(d. 1286) resided in the West, though continuing to oversee the remaining Latin Catholic dioceses in various parts ofLatin Greece.[4]The continuing threat of a Catholic Crusade to restore the Latin Empire, championed by the ambitiousCharles I of Anjou,led to the first attempts, on the Byzantine side, to effect a Union of the Churches. After theUnion of Lyon (1274),John Bekkoswas 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 byEastern Orthodoxhierarchy, thus ending a short-lived union. in 1286, Latin Patriarch Pantaleonе Giustinian was succeeded byPietro Correrwho was the first holder of that office in a new form of atitular see.
On 8 February 1314,Pope Clement Vunited the Patriarchate with the episcopal see of Negroponte (Chalcis), hitherto asuffraganof theLatin 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 ofLatin Greece.[5]
For a time, like many ecclesiastical offices in the West, it had rival contenders who were supporters or protégés of the rival popes.[citation needed]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 theLatin Patriarchate of AlexandriaandAntioch,it was no longer mentioned in the Vatican yearbook (rather than being announced as being abolished).[6]This was afterPope Paul VImet withEcumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople(seePope Paul VI and ecumenism), showing the Latin Church by this point was more interested in reconciliation with the Eastern Church, abolishing the titular title.[7]
AVicariate Apostolic of Istanbul(until 1990, Constantinople) has existed from 1742 into the present day.
List of Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople
[edit]- Tommaso Morosini(1204–1211)[8][9]
- Vacant(1211–1215)[10]
- 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)
- Pantaleonе Giustinian(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)
- Gozzio Battaglia (1335–1339)
- Rolando d'Asti(1339) (died immediately)
- Enrico d'Asti(1339–1345), bishop of Negroponte
- Stephen of Pinu(1346)
- William(1346–1364)
- Pierre Thomas(1364–1366)
- Paul(1366–1370)
- Ugolino Malabranca de Orvieto(1371–c. 1375), bishop of Rimini
- Giacomo da Itri (1376–1378), archbishop of Otranto
- Paul Palaiologos Tagaris(1379/80–1384)
- Vacant(1384–1390)
- Angelo Correr(1390–1405), later Pope Gregory XII
- Louis of Mytilene(Ludovico? Luiz?) (1406–1408)
- Antonio Correr(1408)
- Alfonso of Seville(1408)
- Francesco Lando(1409), patriarch ofGrado
- Giovanni Contarini(1409–c. 1412)[11]
- Jean de la Rochetaillée(1412–1423)
- Giovanni Contarini(1424–1430?), restored
- François de Conzié(1430–1432)
- Vacant(1432–1438)
- Francesco Condulmer(1438–1453)
- Gregory Mammas(1453–1458), formerly OrthodoxPatriarch of Constantinopleas Gregory III
- Isidore of Kiev(1458–1462)
- Bessarion(1463–1472)
- Pietro Riario(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)
- Marco Cornaro(1506–1507)
- Tamás Bakócz(1507–1521)
- Marco Cornaro(1521–1524), restored
- Giles of Viterbo(1524–1530),Cardinal bishopofViterbo
- Francesco Pesaro(1530–1545)Archbishop of Zadar
- Marino Grimani(1545–1546)
- Ranuccio Farnese(1546–1550)
- Fabio Colonna(1550–1554), bishop ofAversa
- Ranuccio Farnese(1554–1565) restored
- Scipione Rebiba(1565–1573)Cardinal bishopofAlbano
- Prospero Rebiba(1573–1593)Bishop of Troia
- Silvio Savelli (cardinal)(1594–1596)
- Ercole Tassoni(1596–1597)
- Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini(1598–1627?)
- Bonaventura Secusio(1599–1618)[12]
- Ascanio Gesualdo(1618–1638)[13]
- Francesco Maria Macchiavelli(1640–1641)
- Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli(1641–1643)
- Giovanni Battista Spada(1643–1675?)
- Volumnio Bandinelli(1658–1660), later Cardinal
- Stefano Ugolini(1667–1681)
- Odoardo Cibo(Cybo) (1689–1706?), titular archbishop ofSeleuciain 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)
- Giuseppe della Porta Rodiani(1823–1835)
- CardinalGiovanni Soglia Ceroni(1835–1839)
- Antonio Maria Traversi(1839–1842)
- Giovanni Giacomo Sinibaldi(1843)
- CardinalFabio Maria Asquini(1844–1845)
- Giovanni Giuseppe Canali(1845–1851)
- Domenico Lucciardi(1851–1860)
- Giuseppe Melchiade Ferlisi(1860–1865)
- Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei(1866–1878)
- Giacomo Gallo(1878–1881)
- Vacant(1881–1887)
- Giulio Lenti(1887–1895)
- CardinalGiovanni Battista Casali del Drago(1895–1899)
- CardinalAlessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella(1899–1901)
- CardinalCarlo Nocella(1901–1903), died 1908, formerLatin Patriarch of Antioch
- Giuseppe Ceppetelli(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.
See also
[edit]- List of Popes
- Latin Patriarch of Alexandria
- Latin Patriarch of Antioch
- Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Latin Archbishop of Athens
- Latin Archbishop of Corinth
- Latin Archbishop of Crete
- Latin Archbishop of Neopatras
- Latin Archbishop of Patras
- Latin Archbishop of Thebes
References
[edit]- ^Phillips, J., (2009) Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (Vintage Books; London), p195.
- ^Pope Innocent III -To Peter, Cardinal Priest of the Title of St. Marcellus, Legate of the Apostolic See.However, on the way to attack Constantinople the crusaders attacked another Christian city, Zara, and received papal absolution for this. de Villehardouin, G., (1908)Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople(J.M. Dent; London), p26.
- ^Papadakis, A., (1994)The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy,(St Vladimir’s Seminary Press; Crestwood, NY), p204.
- ^"Giustinian, Pantaleonе".Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani,Volume 57: Giulini–Gonzaga(in Italian). Rome:Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.2001.ISBN978-8-81200032-6.
- ^Loenertz 1966,pp. 266–267.
- ^"Three Latin quriarchafes dropped, yearbook reveals".1964. p. 2.Retrieved7 April2023.
- ^McCormack, Alan (1997)."The Term" privilege ": A Textual Study of Its Meaning and Use in the 1983 Code of Canon Law".Gregorian Biblical BookShop. p. 184.ISBN9788876527739.Retrieved5 June2020.
- ^"Constantinople (Titular See)"Catholic-Hierarchy.org.David M. Cheney. retrieved March 24, 2016
- ^"Titular Patriarchal See of Constantinople"GCatholic.org.Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 24, 2016
- ^Wolff 1954.
- ^Hazlitt, W. Carew (1860).History of the Venetian republic: her rise, her greatness, and her civilisation, Vol. IV.London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill. p. Chapter 22.Contarini was at theCouncil of Constancein November 1414.
- ^"Patriarch Bonaventura Secusio, O.F.M. Obs."Catholic-Hierarchy.org.David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 30, 2016
- ^"Patriarch Ascanio Gesualdo"Catholic-Hierarchy.org.David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
Sources and external links
[edit]- Giorgio Fedalto,La Chiesa latina in Oriente,Mazziana, Verona, 2nd ed. 1981, e vol.
- Loenertz, R.-J. (1966)."Cardinale Morosini et Paul Paléologue Tagaris, patriarches, et Antoine Ballester, vicaire du Papae, dans le patriarcat de Constantinople (1332-34 et 1380-87)".Revue des études byzantines(in French).24:224–256.doi:10.3406/rebyz.1966.1373.
- Wolff, Robert Lee (1948). "The Organization of the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1204–1261: Social and Administrative Consequences of the Latin Conquest".Traditio.VI.Cambridge University Press: 33–60.doi:10.1017/S0362152900004359.JSTOR27830170.S2CID151901021.
- Wolff, Robert Lee (1954). "Politics in the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1204–1261".Dumbarton Oaks Papers.8.Dumbarton Oaks:225–303.doi:10.2307/1291068.JSTOR1291068.
- List of Latin Patriarchs of Constantinopleby GCatholic.org
- Catholic Hierarchy