The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pedena ( la, Dioecesis Petinensis) was a Catholic diocese located in the town of Pedena (modern day

Pićan Pićan ( it, Pedena, Chakavian: ''Pićon'', sl, Pičen,) is a village and municipality in the central part of Istria, Croatia, 12 km southeast of Pazin; elevation 360 m. The chief occupations are agriculture and livestock breeding. It is sit ...

) in the central part of

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, 12 km southeast of

Pazin Pazin ( it, Pisino, german: Mitterburg) is a town in western Croatia, the administrative seat of Istria County. It is known for the medieval Pazin Castle, the former residence of the Istrian margraves. Geography The town had a population of 8,6 ...

and is now a Latin

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History

* Established in 557 as the Diocese of Pedena (Italian) / Petina (Latin) / Pican (Croat) / Petinen(sis) (Latin adjective), on territory split off from the

Diocese of Trieste In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

. * Suppressed on 1788.03.08, its territory being reassigned to establish the Diocese of Gradisca."Titular Episcopal See of Pićan"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved 22 March 2017 In 1969 it was restored as a Titular Episcopal See.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Pedena'': :incomplete : notably lacking the first centuries * Vigardo (? – 1200) * Federico (1200 – 1203) * Popone (1203 – 1231) * Pietro di Montemarte (1239? – ?) * Otone da Parenzo (1247 – 1253) * Enrico (1254? – ?) * Bernardo (1263? – ?) * Viscardo (1267? – ?) * Bernardo (1275? – 1284?) * Ulrico (1295 – ?) * Odorisio Bertrami,

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(O.P.) (1300 – death 1310) * Enoch,

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(O.E.S.A.) (1310 – ?) * Demetrio (1324? – ?) * Guglielmo (1339? – ?) * Amanzio,

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(O.F.M. ?Conv.) (1343.02.17 – ?) * Stanislao da Cracovia, O.P. he name suggests a Silesian(1343.04.21 – ?) * Demetrio dei Matafari (1345.02.23 – 1354.02.22), next Bishop of Nona (Nin, Croatia) (1354.02.22 – death 1387) * Nicolò (1354.03.28 – ?) * Lorenzo (1372.04.19 – ?) * Andrea Bon (1394.02.16 – 1396.04.12), previously Bishop of

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(Italy) (1382 – 1394.02.16); later Bishop of La Canea (1396.04.12 – ?) * Enrico de Wildenstein, Conventual?

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(O.F.M.) (1396.12.23 – ?) * Paolo de Nostero,

(O.E.S.A.) (1409.08.23 – ?) * Giovanni Straus, Conventual?

(O.F.M.) (1411.04.18 – ?) * Gregorio di Carinzia, O.E.S.A. (1418.02.14 – ?) * Nicolò (1430 – death 1434) * Pietro Giustiniani, O.P. (1434.09.10 – 1457), next Bishop of Corfù (insular

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) (1458 – 1458) * ''uncanonical : Martino da Lubiana (1445 – 1447▼)'' * Jakob Krainburg (1457.01.04 – ?) * Konrad Arensteiner (1461.12.02 – death 1465) * Michele (1465.06.07 – 1478) * Michele (1465.06.07 – death 1478) * Giorgio Maninger (1491.01.31 – ?) * Ludovico Ruggeri (1501 – ?) * Georg von Slatkonia (1513? – 1522.04.26), next Bishop of

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(Vienna,

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, now Metropolitan) (1513.08.12 – 1522.04.26) * Nikolaus Creutzer, Conventual?

(O.F.M.) (30 Jan 1523 - death 2 Oct 1525) * Giovanni Barbo (16 April 1526 - death 16 Jan 1547) *

Zaccaria Giovanni Divanic Zaccaria Giovanni Divanic (died 9 March, 1562) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pedena, Croatia from 1550 to 1562.

(23 May 1550 - death 9 March 1562) *

Daniele Barboli Daniele Barboli, O.P. (died 25 February, 1570) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pedena (1563–1570).Order of Preachers The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

(O.P.) (4 June 1563 - death 25 Feb 1570) *

Giorgio Rautgartler Giorgio Rautgartler or Giorgio Reitgherlet (died 10 December, 1600) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pedena (1573–1600).Antonio Zara Antonio Zara (died 13 December 1621) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pedena (1601–1621).

(13 May 1601 - death 13 Dec 1621) *

Pompeo Coronini Pompeo Coronini (1581 – 14 March 1646) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Trieste (1631–1646) and Bishop of Pedena (1625–1631).

(21 April 1625 - 27 Jan 1631), next Bishop of

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(Italy) (1631.01.27 – 1646) *

Gaspard Bobek Gaspard Bobek (1593–1635) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pedena (1631–1635).

(7 April 1631 - 1635 Died)"Bishop Gaspard Bobek"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016 *

Antonio Marenzi Antonio Marenzi (22 September 1596 – 22 October 1662) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Trieste (1646–1662) and Bishop of Pedena (1637–1646). ''(in Latin)''Roman Catholic Diocese of Trieste The Italian Roman Catholic Diocese of Trieste ( la, Dioecesis Tergestina) in the Triveneto, has existed since no later than 524, and in its current form since 1977. The bishop's seat is in Trieste Cathedral. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese o ...

(Italy) ( 646.04.261646.09.10 – 1662.10.20) * Franz Maximilian Vaccano (born Italy) (1 March 1649 Confirmed - 12 March 1663), next Bishop of

(Italy) ( 662.11.061663.03.12 – 1672.08.15) *

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(O.F.M.) (13 Aug 1663 - death 1 Feb 1667); previously ''uncanonical Bishop of

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) (1662.09.19 – 1663.08.13▼)'' * Paul Budimir, O.F.M. (1 Oct 1668 - death 3 April 1670) * Andreas Daniel von Rauchnach (15 Dec 1670 - death 9 Dec 1686) * Johann Markus Rossetti (12 Dec 1689 - death 10 Nov 1691) * Peter Anton Gaus von Homberg (9 March 1693 - death 25 April 1716) * Georg Xaver Marotti (25 April 1716 - death 20 August 1740), succeeded as former

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of Pedena (? – 25 April 1716) * Bonifatius Cecchotti,

(O.F.M.) (3 July 1741 - death 1 May 1765) * Aldrago Antonio de Piccardi (born Italy) (1 Dec 1766 - 14 Feb 1785) Confirmed, next Bishop of Senj-Modruš (Croatia) ( 784.08.311785.02.14 – death 1789.09.13).

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as Latin

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of Pićan (Hrvatski) / Pedena (Italian) / Petina (Latin) / Petinen(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception : * ''Titular Archbishop: Josip Pavlišić (1969.08.20 – 1974.04.18) as

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of Rijeka–Senj (Croatia) (1969.08.20 – 1974.04.18), later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Rijeka–Senj (1974.04.18 – retired 1990.01.05); previously Titular Bishop of

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(1951.12.13 – 1969.08.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of Senj-Modruš (Croatia) (1951.12.13 – 1969.08.20); died 2005 * John Edward McCarthy (1979.01.23 – 1985.12.19) as Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston (

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, USA) (1979.01.23 – 1985.12.19); later Bishop of

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(Texas, USA) (1985.12.19 – retired 2001.01.02) * Rafael Palmero Ramos (1987.11.24 – 1996.01.09) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (

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) (1987.11.24 – 1996.01.09); later Bishop of

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(Spain) (1996.01.09 – 2005.11.26), Bishop of Orihuela–Alicante (Spain) (2005.11.26 – retired 2012.07.27) *

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(1996.07.23 – 2001.12.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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) (1996.07.23 – 2001.12.20); later Bishop of

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(Germany) (2001.12.20 – 2007.11.30), Metropolitan Archbishop of München und Freising (Munich and Freising, Germany) (2007.11.30 – ...), Vice-President of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (2009.03 – 2012.03.22), created

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of S. Corbiniano (2010.11.20 011.06.05– ...), President of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (2012.03.22 – ...), Member of Council of Cardinals to assist in the governance of the Universal Church and to reform the Roman Curia (2013.04.13 – ...), Coordinator of Council for the Economy (2014.03.08 – ...), President of German Episcopal Conference (2014.03.12 – ...) * Valentin Pozaić,

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(S.J.) (2005.02.02 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Croatia) (2005.02.02 – ...), no previous prelature.

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