The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Split-Makarska ( hr, Splitsko-makarska nadbiskupija; la, Archidioecesis Spalatensis-Macarscensis) is a Metropolitan
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archdiocese
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History
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and metropolitan see in 1969, restoring the earlier status of the archdiocese of Split, as it is also known. The diocese was also known as Spalato-Macarsca.
The current archbishop is Dražen Kutleša.
History
The see was founded in or before 300 AD as Diocese of Salona. Eastern Roman EmperorLeo I (r. 457–474) appointed Glycerius as ''Bishop of Salona'' in 474, Glycerius had earlier served as Western Roman Emperor but was deposed by Julius Nepos. Around 500 AD it was promoted to a Metropolitan archdiocese.
The Archbishopric of Spalathon or Spalatum (also ''Salona'', lat, Spalatum) was a Christian archbishopric with seat in Salona,
Dalmatia
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Patriarch of Constantinople
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. During this period, the Salona archdiocese, in year 590, gained territory from the suppressed Roman Church of Makarska.
Salona was ravaged by the South Slavs ( Sclaveni) in 614, but in its place, Spalatum subsequently emerged.A history of Christianity in the Balkans /ref>Matthew Spinka, ''A history of Christianity in the Balkans: a study in the spread of Byzantine culture among the Slavs'' pp. 19–20 /ref> In 639 the city was again razed by the Slavs.
In 647 the city of Spalato (now Split) began to arise from the ruins of Salona, and after an interregnum of eleven years its archbishops took over the territory of the archbishops of Salona.
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During the rule of Vladislav of Croatia (821–835), all of Croatia except the Archdiocese of Nin became subject to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, under the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Spalatum. It lost territory in 1144 to establish the Diocese of Hvar.
It lost territory again in 1344 to re-establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Makarska, in 1400 it regained that territory from the re-suppressed the Diocese of Makarska, but again lost territory in 1615 to re-re-establish the Diocese of Makarska.
With the death of Archbishop
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(1807) began another interregnum which lasted twenty-three years. By papal bull '' Locum Beati Petri'' the Church in Dalmatia was reorganized in 1828, Makarska united with Split, and the latter demoted as a simple bishopric of Split-Makarska, made subject to the
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was appointed first bishop of the new diocese in 1830. It also absorbed the suppressed Tragurium (or Traù, now Trogir).
On 27 July 1969, it was promoted again as Metropolitan Archdiocese
It enjoyed a papal visit from Pope John Paul II in October 1998.
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(''Konkatedrala sv. Petar Apostola'').
There are former cathedrals in three former sees absorbed in the archdiocese:
* World Heritage Site: ''Katedrala sv. Lovre'', in Trogir, formerly Trau or Tragurium
* World Heritage Site: ''Crkva sv. Ivan Krstitelj'', also in Trogir
* ''Katedrala sv. Marka'', in
Makarska
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Its
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; ''Bishops of Salona''
Known bishops of Salona include :
* Saint Domnius is patron saint of both the Archdiocese and the city of Split.
* Hesychius III is mentioned in the twentieth book of St.
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(492–496) is addressed to bishop Honorius.
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Archbishop Honorius III conducted a synod in 530; Natalis at a Council in 590, unjustly deposed his
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Honoratus, but pope Gregory the Great took the latter's part.
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*Maximus the Schismatic
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*Petar II † (?)
*Martin I † (?)
*Leone † (?)
*Petar III † (840–860 Died)
*Justin † (860–876 Died)
*Marino † (881–886 Died)
*Teodozije † (887–893)
*Petar IV † (893–912)
*Ivan II † (914–928)
*Januarije II † (?–circa 940)
*Frontinijan III † (circa 940 – circa 970)
*Martin II † (970–1000)
*Pavao † (1015–1030)
*Martin III † (1030)
* Dobralj † (1030–1050 Deposed)
*Ivan III † (1050–1059 Resigned)
* Lawrence, Archbishop of Split † (1059–1099 Died)
*Crescenzio † (1110–1112 Died)
*Manasse † (1112 – 1114 o 1115 Deposed)
*''Sede vacante'' (1115–1135)
*Grgur † (1135)
*Gaudio † (1136–1158 Deposed)
*Absalom † (1159–1161 Died)
*Petar V † (2 July 1161 Appointed – 1166 Died)
*Albert de Morra † (1166)
*Gerardo † (1167–1175 nominated archbishop of Siponto)
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(d. 1180), and the unfortunate
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, who was deprived of his office after having filled it for fourteen years and died an apostate at Rome in 1624; Thomas, who resigned his office voluntarily (thirteenth century), is the author of a history of the bishops of Salona and Spalato.
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† (1175 – 4 August 1180 Died)
*''Sede vacante'' (1180–1185)
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*Petar VII † (1188–1196)
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*Göncöl † (29 Jul 1220 Appointed – 31 May 1242 Died)
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* Ivan de Buzad † (1266 Appointed – 1294 Died)
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*Belian † (26 Sep 1324 Appointed – 28 Jan 1328 Died)
*Domenico Luccari † (17 Oct 1328 Appointed – April 1348 Died)
*Ivan † (30 May 1348 Appointed – ?)
*Hugolin Branca † (25 June 1349 Appointed – 1388 Resigned)
* Andrea Gualdo † (29 May 1389 Appointed – 1402 Resigned)
*Pellegrino d'Aragona † (18 April 1403 Appointed – 7 Mau 1409 Died)
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* Andrea Cornaro † (1527 Appointed – 1537 Resigned)
*Marco Cornaro (Corner) † (11 Aug 1537 Appointed – 1566 Resigned)
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Alvise Michiel
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Leonard Bondumier
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Stephanus Cosimi
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Frane Franić
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† (24 Dec 1960 Appointed – ''see below'')
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Frane Franić
Frane Franić (29 December 1912 – 17 March 2007) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Split-Makarska, Split-Makarska from 1969 to his retirement in 1988. He also served as the last bis ...
† (''see above'' 24 Dec 1960 Appointed – 10 Sep 1988 Retired)
* Ante Jurić † (10 Sep 1988 Appointed – 21 June 2000 Retired)
* Marin Barišić (21 June 2000 Appointed – 13 May 2022 Retired)
* Dražen Kutleša (13 May 2022 Appointed – present)