The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodomeria was a late-medieval
Latin rite
Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, are Catholic rites of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the largest particular church ''sui iuris'' of the Catholic Church, that originated in Europe where the Latin language once ...
Catholic diocese in
Lodomeria
Lodomeria is the Latinized name of Volodymyr (Old Slavic: , ; uk, Лодомерія, ; pl, Lodomeria; sk, Lodomeria; hu, Lodomeria; cz, Vladiměř; ; ro, Lodomeria), a Ruthenian principality also referred to as the Principality of Volhyni ...
(roughly
Volhynia
Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...
, in modern
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
) from 1375 till 1425. Lodomeria is a derivative of Wolodomeria based in
Volodymyr. The diocese preceded
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk which was formed on its territory. In 1425 the diocese of Lodomeria was merged with its former junior diocese moving its bishop see to Lutsk by
Andrzej Spławski
Andrzej is the Polish form of the given name Andrew.
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* Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and ma ...
.
History
* Established in 1375 as Diocese of Lodomeria (Latin) / Włodzimierz (Polish) / Volodymyr (Ukrainian), on territory split off from the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Halyč
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
.
* Lost territory in 1404 to establish the
Diocese of Luceoria
The Roman Catholic diocese of Lutsk was first established in the 13th century as the diocese of Luceoria (Latin) or Łuck (Polish). After the victory of Napoleon, the diocese was joined with the diocese of Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́ ...
/ Luck (Polish) / Lutsk
* Suppressed on 1425.12.19, its territory being merged into the
Diocese of Luck and Włodzimierz
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman Rite
The Roman Rite ( la, Ritus Romanus) is the primary liturgical rite of the Latin Church, the largest of the ''sui iuris'' particular churches that comprise the Catholic Church. It developed in the Latin language in the city of Rome and, while dist ...
)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Lodomeria''
* Mikołaj (1380 – retired 1400.02.17), emeritate as
Titular Bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Selymbria
Selymbria ( gr, Σηλυμβρία),Demosthenes, '' de Rhod. lib.'', p. 198, ed. Reiske. or Selybria (Σηλυβρία), or Selybrie (Σηλυβρίη), was a town of ancient Thrace on the Propontis, 22 Roman miles east from Perinthus, and 44 Roman ...
(1400.02.17 – ?death ?)
* Zbigniew z Łapanowa (1400 – 1413.08.20), next Bishop of
Kamyanets-Podilsky
Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...
(Ukraine) (1413.08.20 – death 1428)
* Jarosław z Lublina,
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...
(O.P.) (1414.04.30 – ?).
See also
*
(overlapping territory but Byzantine Rite)
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine
The Catholic Church in Ukraine comprises
* one Latin ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan archbishop of Lviv, with 6 suffragan dioceses each headed by a bishop
* a more extensive hierarchy of the Eastern Catholic consisting of
** ...
Sources and references
GCatholic with Google map - data for all sections
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Ex-Soviet Europe
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