| Type: | priest |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
| Francesco Patton, O.F.M. | |
| Custodian of the Holy Land | |
| Appointed: | 20 May 2016 |
| Retired: | --> |
| Predecessor: | Pierbattista Pizzaballa |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Trento, Italy |
| Tomb: | --> |
| Alma Mater: | Pontifical Salesian University |
Francesco Patton (born 23 December 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 triennially since.[1] [2]
Patton was born in Trento, Italy and earned a Licentiate from the Pontifical Salesian University. He was ordained in 1989.[3]