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History

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. Pope Eugene III made it a suffragan of the

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, was older; Pope John VIII wrote to its bishop in 870. The fifty-fifth bishop, Raccamarich, was transferred to the Diocese of Cattaro in 1818. The Diocese of Arbe or

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in 530. The fifty-eight bishop, Galzigna (d. in 1823), was also the last, as his diocese was then merged into that of Veglia.

Bishops

*Vitalis (1000 – aft. 1030) *Gregory (1050–1069) **Cededa (1065), anti–bishop *Peter I (1069–1094) *Dominic (c. 1106 – aft. 1133) *Peter II (1153) *Dabro (1170 – aft. 1179) *John I (1186 – aft. 1188) *''A bishop is mentioned in 1212 and in 1252 without being named.'' *Marino (1270– circa 1290 deceduto) *Lambert, OFM (8 March 1290 – 25 May 1297), transferred to the diocese of Aquino *Jerome Girolamo (1297–1298) *Matthew, OFM (1299–????) *Thomas I, OFM (13 August 1302 – c. 1311) *Jacopo Bertaldo (bef. 26 August 1313 – 3 April 1315) *Bongiovanni (c. 1315 – aft. 1326) *Lompradio (fl. 1330) *Nicolò I (1332–????) *John II (2 July 1358 – ????) *John III (7 October 1360 – ????) *Thomas II (5 March 1389 – ????) *Nicolò II (21 April 1421 – 1435) *Angelo da Bologna, OP (8 October 1436 – ????) *Francesco, OFM (2 December 1444 – 29 October 1456), transferred to the diocese of Krbava * Nicolas Valentini (1457–1484 Died) * Donato della Torre (1484–1515 Appointed,

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(1564–1589 Died) * Giovanni della Torre (1589–1623 Died) * Alvise Lippomano (1623–1640 Died) *

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, C.R.S. (1640–1653 Died) *

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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 29, 2016 *

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(1660–1667 Died) *

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, OFM (1668–1681 Died) * Stefano David (1684–1687 Died)"Bishop Stefano David"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 9, 2016 * Baldassarre Nosadini (1688–1712 Died) *Pietro Paolo Calorio (Calore), C.R.S. (1713–1717 Died) *Vincenzio Lessio (1719–1729 Died) *Giovanni Federico Orsini Rosa (1729–1738 Appointed,

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(1778–1788 Died) *Giacinto Ignazio Pellegrini, O.P. (1789–1792 Died) *Ivan Antun Sintić (1792–1837 Died) *Bartol Bozanić (1839–1854 Died) *Ivan Josip Vitezić (1855–1877 Died) *Franjo Anijan Ferrettić (1880–1893 Died) *Andrija Marija Sterk (1894–1896 Appointed, Bishop of Trieste e Capodistria) *Anton Mahnič (1896–1920 Died) *

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(1923–1966 Died) * Karmelo Zazinović (1968–1989 Retired) *

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(1989–1997 Appointed, Archbishop of Zagreb) * Valter Župan (1998–2015 Retired) * Ivica Petanjak,

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References

* Daniele Farlati, ''Illyrici sacri'', V (Venice, 1775); Veglia, 294-316, 639-47; Ossero, 182-223; Arbe, 223-294; * Augustin Theiner, ''Monumenta Slavorum meridionalium, hist. illustr.'' (Rome, 1863), 46, 79 sq., 107 sq., 112, 122, 163, 323, 422 sq., 432 sq., 519 sq., 575, 581, 613 sq.; *Mon. Hung. Rom., I (1859): Veglia, 425, 110, 112, 195, 220 sq., 323, 539 sq., Absor, 573, Arbe, 247, 281 sq.

Notes

External links

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Official website

at Catholic-Hierarchy.org {{authority control 900 establishments Dioceses established in the 9th century

Krk 9th-century establishments in Croatia