Leo III, papa (795–816)

Pope Leo III confers the pallium upon Fortunatus II, the incumbent patriarch of Grado.

Pope Leo III writes to Emperor Charlemagne regarding the situation of Fortunatus, the patriarch of Grado who had been exiled from his see by the Venetians and "the Greeks". The pope agrees that the Church of Pula should be bestowed upon Patriarch Fortunatus as his new seat.

At the Synod of Rome, convened in order to settle the conflict between the patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado, Pope John XIX condemns Patriarch Poppo’s invasion of Grado, revokes his earlier privilege according to which he was given ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the “island of Grado”, and confirms the metropolitan status of the Patriarchate of Grado.

Following the Synod of Rome, convened to resolve the recently rekindled conflict between the patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado, Pope Benedict IX writes to Urso, the patriarch of Grado, informing him of the Synod’s decision to support the cause of his church against the Aquileian Patriarch Poppo, who had recently launched a second military invasion of Grado before his untimely death; the pope confirms the metropolitan status together with the ecclesiastical and secular jurisdictions of the Patriarchate of Grado, dubbed “New Aquileia” for the very first time in an authentic papal document.