Benedictus Faletro

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Benedetto Falier ( Benedictus Faletro ; * before 1180; † 1207 ) was Patriarch of Grado from 1201 to 1207.

family

The Faletro or Falier family belonged to the ancient families of Venice . It is already counted among the oldest and noblest in the oldest register of Venetian noble families, which was created around the middle of the 10th century. Two doges emerged from it, Vitale Falier (1084-1096) and Ordelaffo Falier (1101 / 2-1117 / 8), also a bishop of Castello or Olivolo , the city Venetian diocese, came from the family: Bonifacio Falier, bishop of Castello 1120 -1133.

Start of career

Benedetto Falier was first pastor of the rich parish of S. Maria del Giglio near S. Marco; In 1180, under the Doge Aurio Mastropietro , he was elected primicerius of S. Marco. This made him the highest-ranking clergyman in the Doge's palace chapel; in the ecclesiastical hierarchy he took the place of the Venetian bishops, but before all other secular clergy. Among other things, he performed important representative tasks; so after the election of a new doge he received him at the portal of S. Marco and presented him with the insignia of his rule. Benedetto Falier must have received Enrico Dandolo in 1192 after his election.

Election and ordination as patriarch

After the death of the patriarch Giovanni Signolo in 1201, Benedetto Falier was elected as his successor. There must have been doubts about the legitimacy of his election as well as about the suitability of the candidate, because the Pope had both examined intensively. Three years after the election, the patriarch was still not ordained; Pope Innocent III accused him of having delayed his ordination himself, through illness and obesity, more of the heart than of the body ( propter infirmitatem et pinguedinem, sed magis cordis quam corporis, plus mentis quam ventris ).

politics

As a patriarch, Benedetto Falier had to deal with the effects of the Fourth Crusade on his rights. Constantinople had been conquered in April 1204; the Venetian Tommaso Morosini was elected the first Latin Patriarch of Constantinople and was elected in January 1205 by Pope Innocent III. raised. He came into competition with the Patriarch of Grado; In 1137 Pope Hadrian IV granted the then Patriarch of Grado Enrico Dandolo and his successors the right to ordain and consecrate the bishop in Constantinople and in all cities of the Byzantine Empire in which the Venetians owned several churches. In March 1205, after the rebellion of Tommaso Morosini, Benedetto Falier appointed the prior Ada as procurator in the administration of the properties of the patriarchate in Constantinople. Tommaso Morosini was apparently urged in Venice in May 1205 to clarify the jurisdiction and to make concessions to the Patriarch of Grado and his rights. So on May 15, 1205, with the consent of his cathedral chapter , he declared to the Patriarch of Grado and all his bishops and abbots as well as all other prelates who owned churches in the empire that all churches of the Venetians in the city of Constantinople and in the rest of the empire of every spiritual and secular jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople should be free, although Pope Innocent granted him full and unrestricted jurisdiction over all churches in Romania. In October 1206, the Venetian Podestà of Constantinople, Marino Zeno, transferred a long series of buildings and properties to the Patriarch of Grado, Benedetto Falier.

death

Benedetto Falier died between March and August of the year 1207; in March he was named as patriarch, and in August his successor Angelo Baroci.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Giovanni Signolo Patriarch of Grado
1201 - 1207 		Angelo Barozzi
personal data
SURNAME Faletro, Benedictus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falier, Benedetto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Patriarch of Grado (1201–1207)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1180
DATE OF DEATH 1207