The Latin Patriarch of Constantinople was one of the four Roman Catholic "patriarchs of the east". He was not the same person as the "Patriarch of Constantinople".

Before the Great Schism in 1054, the church was ruled by five patriarchs, who sat in Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch. The Patriarch of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople held the most prestige of the five patriarchs. The two were often at odds with one another. Therefore both Patriarchs thought that that meant the other four patriarchs (and so, indirectly, all Christians) owed him obedience. The none of the other patriarchs accepted this position, and because of that and other differences, the Eastern and Western churches separated in 1054, becoming what we now know as the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

In 1204, the Fourth Crusade invaded, seized and sacked Constantinople, and established the Latin Empire. They brought with them Roman Catholic ecclesiatics, who set up a Latin Patriarchate loyal to the Pope. The Latin establishment was defeated and dispossessed in 1261, although the Latin Patriarchate persisted, based at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, until 1506. Although the office continued in titular form, it was finally abolished in 1964.

List of Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople

• Thomas Morosini (1204-1211)
• (Vacant 1211-1215)

• Gervase (1215-1219)
• (Vacant 1219-1221)
• Matthew (1221-1226)
• John Halgrin (1226), declined office
• Simon (1227-1233)
• (Vacant 1233-1234)
• Nicholas de Castro Arquato (1234-1251)
• (Vacant 1251-1253)
• Pantaleon Giustiani (1253-1286)

(Constantinople retaken in 1261; Patriarchate now titular only)

• Peter Correr (1286-1302)
• Leonard Faliero (1302- c. 1305)
• Nicholas of Thebes (c. 1308- c. 1331)
• Cardinalis (1332-1335)
• Gozio Battaglia (1335-1339)
• Roland of Ast (1339)
• Henry of Ast (1339-1345)
• Stephen of Pinu (1346)
• William (1346-1364)
• Peter Thomas (1364-1366)
• Paul of Thebes (1366-1370)
• Hugolin Malabranca (1371- c. 1375)
• James d'Itri (1376-1378)
• William of Urbino (1379)
• Paul of Corinth (1379)
• (Vacant 1379-1390)
• Angelo Correr (1390-1405), future Pope Gregory XII
• Louis of Mitylene (1406-1408)
• Antonio Cardinal Correr (1408)
• Alphonese of Seville (1408)
• Francis Lando (1409)
• John Contarini (1409- c. 1412)
• John de La Rochetaillee (1412-1423)
• John Contarini (restored) (1424- unknown)
• Gregory Mamme (1451-1459)
• Johannes Bessarion (1459-1472)
• Peter Riario (1472-1474)
• Jerome Lando (1474- c. 1496)
• John Michael (1497-1503)
• John, Cardinal Borgia (1503)
• Francis, Cardinal de Lorris (1503-1506)

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• Dominicus Lucciardi (1851-1860)
• Iosephus Melchiades Ferlisi (1860-1865)
• Rogerius Aloysius Emygdius Antici Mattei (1866-1878)
• Iacobus Gallo (1878-1881)
• (Vacant 1881-1887)
• Iulius Lenti (1887-1895)
• Ioannes Bapt. Casali del Drago (1895-1899
• Alexander Sanminiatelli Zabarella (1899-1901)
• Carlo Nocella (1901-1903), died 1908, former Latin Patriarch of Antioch
• Giuseppe Ceppetelli (1903-1917)
• (Vacant 1917-1923)
• Michele Zezza di Zapponeta (1923-1927)
• Antonio Anastasio Rossi (1927-1948)
• (Vacant 1948-1964)

Post abolished 1964

See Also

• List of Popes