The Roman Catholic Diocese of Balecium (
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name) or of Balecio/Balezo (in
Curiate/Venetian Italian) or of
Baleč
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(in
Serbian) is a former
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bishopric
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History
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and present
titular see
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of the
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in
Albania
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. The town that was its seat was destroyed in 1356 by the Serbian kingdom of
Rascia.
History
Circa 1300 (possibly much earlier) was established a Diocese of Balecium alias Balezo.
At the beginning of the 14th century,
Baleč
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(alias Baleš) was the see of a small Catholic
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
. In 1356, Bishop Andreas Citer complained that his
bishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
was full of
schismatics. The diocese had been laid waste and impoverished by Serbian "schismatics of the kingdom of
Rascia", who had completely destroyed the monastery situated 5000 paces from the cathedral. In response,
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granted him ''in commendam'', on 26 September of the same year, the
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monastery of St. John in
Drivast
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. At this time Baleč must have ceased to exist as a town, so that, although bishops continued to be appointed to the see, by 1448, when even the fortress rebuilt by
Skanderbeg
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was destroyed, the town was no more than a memory.
In the late 15th century the bishopric was formally suppressed after its see had been utterly destroyed.
Residential suffragan bishops
(all
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* ...
* Gulielmus alias Guglielmo
* Gerwicus de Grünberg,
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(O.F.M.) (5 March 1347 – 1350)
* Andreas Citer, O.F.M. (1 June 1351 – ?)
* ...
* Ioannes alias Giovanni (?–?)
* ...
* Alfonso da Caceres, O.F.M. (27 March 1420 – ?)
* Domenico Godani (4 June 1422 – ?)
* Michele Paoli (1424.09.01 – 1428.10.11), later Bishop of
Drivasto
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(1428.10.11 – death 1445?)
* Bernardo da Viviers, O.F.M. (3 November 1428 – c. 1459)
* Leonardo da Napoli,
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(O.P.) (1459.08.31 – ?)
* Leonardo (? – 1488.07.30), later Bishop of
Lesina (1488.07.30 – ?)
Titular see
The bishopric of Balecium, no longer a residential see, is today listed by the
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as a
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[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 845] since it was nominally restored as Latin
titular bishopric
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under the names Balecium (Latin; adjective Balcien(sis) ) or Balecio (Curiate Italian).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :
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(O.S.B.) (1938.12.13 – 1953.04.29) as last
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(Copenhagen, Denmark) (1953.04.29 – 1964.10.06), emeritate as Titular Bishop of
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(M.C.C.J.) (Italian) (1953.06.29 – 1974.12.12) as last
Apostolic Vicar
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) (1953.06.29 – 1974.12.12); later promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(Sudan) (1974.12.12 – resigned 1981.10.10),
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(now South) Sudan) (1982 – retired 1983), died 2001
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Amaury Castanho
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(1976.07.19 – 1979.11.30) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Sorocaba (
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Valença (Brazil) (1979.11.30 – 1989.05.03),
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(Brazil) (1989.05.03 – 1996.10.02) succeeding as Bishop of Jundiaí (1996.10.02 – retired 2004.01.07); died 2006
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Claude Feidt
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(1980.07.05 – 1985.02.16) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise
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of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (1985.02.16 – 1985.05.14), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (1985.05.14 – 1999.06.17), next last Metropolitan Archbishop of
Aix(-en-Provence) (France) (1999.06.17 – 2002.12.08), see demoted Archbishop of Aix (2002.12.08 – retired 2010.03.29)
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Peter Kang U-il
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(강우일 베드로) (1985.12.21 – 2002.07.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of
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(O.F.M.) (2002.10.23 – 2013.11.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Graz–Seckau (
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) (2002.10.23 – 2013.11.18); later Metropolitan Archbishop of
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Herwig Gössl (24 January 2014 – ...),
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), no previous prelature.
See also
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List of Catholic dioceses in Albania
The Catholic Church in Albania is composed of:
* two Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces, comprising two metropolitan archdioceses and three suffragan dioceses
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References
Sources and external links
GCatholic with incumbent bio links - data for all sections;Bibliography
* Oliver Jens Schmitt, ''Das venezianische Albanien'' (1392-1479), pp. 96–97
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, pp. 395–396
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, pp. 125–126; vol. 2, p. 101
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