Francesco Patton

Francesco Patton (born December 23, 1963) is an Italian friar who is the 168th Custodian of the Holy Land, an office to which he acceded in May 2016 and has been renewed in triennially since.

Patton was born in Trento, Italy and earned a Licentiate from the Pontifical Salesian University. He was ordained in 1989.