The main subject of this doctoral dissertation is the Chapter of St. Anastasia's Cathedral of Zadar, its dignitaries and the goods during the last hundred years of the of the Venetian government in Dalmatia. During the research of the Chapter's archive documentation, preserved in the Archive of Archdiocese of Zadar, and numerous documents of the State Archives in Zadar, Venice and Rome as well as available documentation regarding this issue in the Scientific Library of Zadar, the author set the main goals which are presented in the following thesis: The medieval history of the Chapter of Zadar is relatively well known in the Croatian ecclesiastical historiography as it will be shown bellow. Opposite to that the Renaissance and the early modern history are still uncovered. That fact was the initial incentive to the author for researching the economic aspect of the Chapter of Zadar during the 18th century and its influence on the ecclesiastical life in Zadar during the last century of the Venetian government in Dalmatia. It was inevitable therefore to analyze the historical background as the starting point of the research. In our case, it is a specific relationship between two polarities – the Venetian republic, as a representative of a political and social power on the East Adriatic coast and the Holy See, as a spiritual authority of all known Christian world at the time. This relationship had a direct influence on the Catholic Church in Dalmatia and therefore on the institution of the Chapter of Zadar as a part of the Church hierarchy. Two main events in the ecclesiastical field marked the future of the Catholic Church and at the same time the future of the Chapter of Zadar – on the one hand the Reformation and on the other hand the Council of Trent. The echoes of these events resulted in the loss of some old rights, privileges and benefits for the Chapter of Zadar and caused the constant struggle between the Chapter itself and the archbishops of Zadar during the 18th century especially on the issue of the choosing and allocation of the canonries and prebendaries. Beside that the frequent Venetian and Ottoman wars during the 16th and the 17th centuries had a huge impact on the Chapter's material state since many of its possessions in the Zadar's hinterland were destructed and lost for good. Since the Venetian republic ignored so called ius postliminii according to which it would have been necessary to return the land in the re-conquered territories to its previous owners, the Chapter of Zadar remained without its old possessions in the Zadar's hinterland. Because of that the Chapter of Zadar became poor and dependent on the help and grace of the Venetian republic which had started to have a great influence on the inner ecclesiastical life in Dalmatia as well as in Zadar itself. During the research it has been proved that these political and social events as well as the ecclesiastical changes had determined the status of the Chapter of Zadar in both economical and ecclesiastical sense. This is especially seen in the comparison of capitural income during the 16th and 17th centuries with the income during the 18th century and the extent of its possessions in that period. The analysis of the collected archival documentation and the synthesis of the results reached at, reveal an important fragment of the economic, political and social life of dignitaries who composed the Chapter of Zadar during the last hundred years of the Venetian government in Dalmatia.