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Diocese of Venice, USA 🇺🇸

Celebrations

History

  • 1984.06.16: Established as Diocese of Venice / Venetiarum in Florida (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Miami, Diocese of Orlando and Diocese of Saint Petersburg and became suffragan of Miami)

Contact Info

Address: 1000 Pinebrook Rd., Venice, FL 34284, USA

Phone: +1 (941) 484-9543

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Bishops of Venice (Roman Rite)

Bishop Frank Joseph Dewane (74)Bishop Frank Joseph Dewane (74)
(2007.01.19 – ...)

Bishop of Venice (USA)

Justitia pax gaudium

Born:1950.03.09 (Green Bay, WI, USA)
Ordained Priest:1988.07.16
Consecrated Bishop:2006.07.25

Priest of Green Bay (USA) (1988.07.16 – 2006.04.25)

Chaplain of His Holiness (1992.09.07 – 2001.06.15)

Undersecretary of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2001.03.22 – 2006.04.25)

Prelate of Honour of His Holiness (2001.06.15 – 2006.04.25)

Coadjutor Bishop of Venice (USA) (2006.04.25 – 2007.01.19)

Bishop of Venice (USA) (2007.01.19 – ...)

Bishop John Joseph Nevins
(1984.07.17 – 2007.01.19)

To serve with mercy

Born:1932.01.19 (New Rochelle, NY, USA)
Ordained Priest:1959.06.06
Consecrated Bishop:1979.03.24
Died:2014.08.26 († 82)

Titular Bishop of Rusticiana (1979.01.25 – 1984.07.17)

Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (USA) (1979.01.25 – 1984.07.17)

Bishop of Venice (USA) (1984.07.17 – 2007.01.19)

Former Prelates

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 22,685 km²

Population: 242,156 Catholics (9.9% of 2,444,235 total)

Pastoral Centres: 61 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 195 priests (149 diocesan, 46 religious), 28 deacons, 87 religious (51 brothers, 36 sisters), 12 seminarians