Editing Veneto (section)

===Religion===
[[File:Venedig Basilika.jpg|thumb|[[St Mark's Basilica]], the seat of the [[Patriarch of Venice]]. It is one of the best known examples of [[Italo-Byzantine]] architecture<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.basilicasanmarco.it/WAI/eng/basilica/architettura/interne/fasi_costrutt.bsm|title =Basilica di San Marco|access-date =10 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150305102304/http://www.basilicasanmarco.it/WAI/eng/basilica/architettura/interne/fasi_costrutt.bsm|archive-date =5 March 2015}}</ref>]]
Veneto converted to [[Christianity]] during Roman rule. The region venerates as its patrons the 2nd-century bishop [[Hermagoras of Aquileia|St. Hermagoras]] and his deacon St. Fortunatus, both of Aquileia and both martyrs. [[Aquileia]] became the metropolitan see of Venetia. Aquileia had its own [[Christian liturgy|liturgical rites]] which were used throughout the dioceses of Veneto until the [[Late Middle Ages|later Middle Ages]] when the [[Roman Rite]] replaced the [[Aquileian Rite]]. By the 6th century the [[bishop of Aquileia]] claimed the title of [[patriarch]]. Rejection of the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] (553) led to a [[Schism of the Three Chapters|schism]] wherein the bishops of [[Aquileia]], [[Liguria]], [[Aemilia (Roman province)|Aemilia]], [[Milan]] and of the [[Istrian]] peninsula all refused to condemn [[Three-Chapter Controversy|the Three Chapters]] leading to the churches of Veneto to break communion with the [[Catholic Church|Church of Rome]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Councils of Aquileia}}</ref> The invasion of the non-Catholic Lombards in 568 only served to prolong the schism until 606 and then finally 699 when the [[Carmen de synodo ticinensi|Synod of Pavia]] definitively ended the schism.<ref>Nicholas Everett (2003), ''Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568–774'' (Cambridge), 286.</ref>

In 2004, over 95% of the population claimed to be [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]]. The region of Veneto along with the regions of Friuli and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol form the ecclesiastical region of Triveneto under the [[Patriarch of Venice|Patriarchate of Venice]]. The Patriarchate of Venice is an archdiocese and [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan see]] of an ecclesiastical region which includes suffragan episcopal sees of Adria-Rovigo, Belluno-Feltre, Chioggia, Concordia-Pordenone, Padua, Treviso, Verona, Vicenza, and [[Vittorio Veneto]].<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|country|r15it|Triveneto Region|21 January 2015}}</ref>

The [[Diocese|Archdiocese]] of Venice was elevated to an honorary [[Patriarchate]] by the pope on 8 October 1457 when the [[Patriarchate of Grado]], a successor to the [[Patriarchate of Aquileia (Episcopal)|Patriarchate of Aquileia]], was suppressed. The first patriarch of Venice was St. [[Lorenzo Giustiniani|Laurence]], a nobleman of the Giustiniani family.

During the 20th century the patriarchs were usually appointed [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]], and three cardinal patriarchs, [[Pope Pius X|Giuseppe Sarto]], [[Pope John XXIII|Angelo Roncalli]], and [[Pope John Paul I|Albino Luciani]], were elected pope: Pius X, John XXIII, and John Paul I, respectively. The [[Patriarch of Venice|Patriarchate of Venice]] claims [[Mark the Evangelist|St. Mark]] the Evangelist as its patron. The same saint, symbolised by a winged lion, had become the typical symbol of the Venetian Republic and is still represented on many civic symbols.