The Diocese of Skradin or Scardona ( la, Dioecesis Scardonensis) is an episcopal

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Skradin Skradin ( it, Scardona; grc, Σκάρδων) is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, with a population of 3,825 (2011 census). It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and ...

, central

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History

It was established in 1126, on the territory of the suppressed

Roman Catholic Diocese of Alba Maritima Alba Maritima ( it, Alba Marittima) is a Catholic titular see. It corresponds to current Biograd na Moru in Croatia. Its last titular was archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta, until he was appointed as coadjutor archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz. His ...

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. Its

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episcopal see was the Cathedral 'Porođenja Blažene Djevice Marije' of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which still stands in Skradin. The diocese was suppressed in 1828 by papal bull ''

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'', when its territory was merged into the long-existing

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, a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Split. Yet there later existed another

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of Skradin between 1878 and 1881, Francesco Lönhart.

Episcopal ordinaries

* Bishop Lampridio (1160? – 1171?) * Michele (1179? – 1199?) * Bartolomeo (1200 – 1222?), later Bishop of Nona (also in Croatia) (1222? – ?) * Bishop Niccolò (1229? – ?) * Bartolomeo,

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(O.F.M.) (1240 – 1247) *

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(O.P.) (1248? – 1265?) * Andrea, O.P. (1270? – ?) * Galvano, O.P. (1282? – 1284?) * Niccolò (1285? – 1293?) * Damiano (1300? – 1308?) * Niccolò (1315 – ?) * Paolo Draskovich (1320? – death 1320) * Andrea Muscolo (1326.07.07 – death 1350?) * Giovanni (1350.11.03 – ?) * Michele, O.P. (1356.06.15 – death 1388) * Francesco (1388 – death 1408?), previously Bishop of Korcula (? – 1388) * Pietro,

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(O.E.S.A.) (1410.07.30 – 1420.01.15), later Bishop of Castro del Lazio (Italy, 1420.01.15 – ?) * Juraj, O.F.M. (1420.01.15 – 1423), previously Bishop of

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(Bosnia and Herzegovina) (1406? – 1412.10.21), Bishop of

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(Croatia) (1412.10.21 – 1420.01.15); later again Bishop of Hvar (1423 – 1428) * Niccolò da Spalato (1426.04.08 – death 1428) * * * ... (yet incomplete)

Titular bishopric

It 1933, the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin

of the lowest (episcopal) rank, which has repeatedly -with interruptions- been assigned : * Cândido Lorenzo González, a Mercederian (O. de M.) (1969.12.05 – 1978.05.26) * Anthony Michael Pilla (1979.06.30 – 1980.11.13) * Jude Saint-Antoine, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Montréal (Canada) (1981.03.20 – ...) GCatholic retrieved 2015-8-13

References

External links

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