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The election of the patriarch belonged to the Senate of Venice, and this practice sometimes led to differences between the republic and the Holy See.

Likewise, parishioners elected their parish priests, by the right of patronage.

Girolamo Quirini, O. P.

( 1519 – 54 ), had many disputes with the clergy, the Government, and the Holy See.

To avoid these disputes, the Senate decreed that in future only senators should be eligible.

Those elected after this were frequently laymen.

Giovanni Trevisano, O. S. B.

( 1560 ), introduced the Tridentine reforms, founding the seminary, holding synods and collecting the regulations made by his predecessors ( Constitutiones et privilegia patriarchatus et cleri Venetiarum ).

In 1581 the visita Apostolica was sent to Venice ; a libellus exhortatorius was published, in which the visita highly praised the clergy of Venice.