Georgius Parchich ( la, Georgius Parchich, it, Giorgio Parchich, hr, Juraj Parčić; 1658–1703) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as
Bishop of Nona
This is a list of the bishops of Nin, named after the town of Nin, Croatia. The Bishopric was most likely founded in the middle of the 9th century. Fine, 1991, p. 254Sebenico (Šibenik),
Republic of Venice
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(now
Croatia
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) on 28 April 1658.
On 8 May 1690, he was appointed during the papacy of
Pope Alexander VIII
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as
Bishop of Nona
This is a list of the bishops of Nin, named after the town of Nin, Croatia. The Bishopric was most likely founded in the middle of the 9th century. Fine, 1991, p. 254Fabrizio Spada
Fabrizio Spada (Rome, 17 March 1643 – Rome, 15 June 1717) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and served as Secretary of State under Pope Innocent XII.
Life
Born on March 17, 1643 in Rome, he was the son of Orazio Spada and ...
,
Cardinal-Priest
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of
San Crisogono
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with
Francesco Martelli
Francesco Martelli (1633 – 28 September 1717) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal.
Biography
Martelli was born in Florence of a patrician family.
He studied canon and civil law in the University of Pisa and became canon of the cathedral chap ...
,
titular Archbishop
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Bishop of Vercelli
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, serving as co-consecrators. During his office, he informed Rome on the large community of Orthodox in his bishopric, and sought for Rome to send missionaries to Catholicise ( Uniatise) them. He called the inhabitants of Budin (a former settlement in
Posedarje
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area) the "worst Schismatic rthodoxpeople".
When notable ''
hajduk
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Islam Grčki
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Islam Grčki is located in the Ravni Kotari area, away from Benkovac and away from Zadar. The village is also only away from the Adriatic Sea but i ...
, despite the fact that Mitrović was Orthodox and not Catholic. The local
Serbian Orthodox
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priest forbade Parchich to carry out a
requiem
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, of which he informed the
Congregation of Propaganda
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on 8 July 1692.
In his April 1693 report, Parchich registered 5,486 Roman Catholics and 7,363 Orthodox people in the territory of the bishopric of Nin. The Catholics had 21 priests while the Orthodox had 15. Parchich actively worked on the Uniatisation of Orthodox Serbs, and is known to have converted villages, such as that of Poličnik, "from Schismatic mistakes".
He served as Bishop of Nona until his death in February 1703. He was styled "Eminentiarum Vestrarum Humillimus Addictissimus, et Obseqentissimus Servus Georgius Parchich, Episcopus Nonensis".