The Roman Catholic Diocese of Risan(o) or Risinio (Latin Risinium) was a Latin Catholic bishopric from the sixth to the 17th century and is now a Latin

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History

Established as Diocese of Risano (Italian; Latin Risinium) with see at

Risan Risan ( Montenegrin: Рисан, ) is a town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. It traces its origins to the ancient settlement of Rhizon, the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor. Lying in the innermost portion of the bay, the settlement was prot ...

, site of Ancient

Rhizon Rhizon ( grc, Ῥίζων; la, Risinium) was a city in classical and Roman antiquity. Rhizon is the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor and the modern town of Risan (modern Montenegro) stands near the old city. Originally it was an Illyrian sett ...

. It was a

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of the Metropolitan (also Montenegrine) Archdiocese of Diocleia in the Late

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Dalmatia Superior Dalmatia (; hr, Dalmacija ; it, Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria. Dalmatia is a narrow belt of the east shore of the Adriatic Sea, stre ...

. It was suppressed , its territory being merged into the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kotor The Diocese of Kotor ( cnr, Которска бискупија, Kotorska biskupija; hr, Kotorska biskupija; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Bay of Kotor and Municipality of Budva area in ...

(Cattaro), also in Montenegro.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Suffragan bishops of Risano'' (incomplete in the sixth and possibly until the 13th century) * Sebastiano(591? – 595?) :vacancy? * Michele,

Augustinians Augustinians are members of Christian religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo. There are two distinct types of Augustinians in Catholic religious orders dating back to the 12th–13 ...

(O.E.S.A.)(1271? – ?) * Davide da Ginevra, O.E.S.A.(1327? – 1349?) * Nicola,

Conventual Friars Minor The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM Conv) is a male religious fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church that is a branch of the Franciscans. The friars in OFM CONV are also known as Conventual Franciscans, or Minorites. Dating back to ...

(O.F.M. Conv.) (? – death 1350?) * Doimo, O.F.M.(1351.03.28 – 1352.10.25), next Bishop of

Kotor Kotor (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Котор, ), historically known as Cattaro (from Italian: ), is a coastal town in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Bay of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative c ...

(Cattaro) (Montenegro) (1352.10.25 – 1368?) * Cesario(? – 1355) * Dionigi(? – 1400), next Bishop of

(Cattaro) (Montenegro) (1400 – ?) * Andrea (1400 – ?) * Enrico de Tolnis,

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(O. Carm.) (1400.06.16 – ?) * Costantino Clementi, O.F.M. (1423.07.09 – ?) * Egidio Byedborch, O. Carm. (1428.11.29 – ?) * Antun Bogdanović (1434.04.12 – ?), apparently first Slavic native incumbent * Giovanni da Montemartino, O.F.M. (1434.09.01 – ?) * Dionisio Stefani, O. Carm. (1436.10.17 – ?) * Giovanni Mattei, O. Carm. (1453.01.12 – ?) * Heinrich Hopfgarten (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24), also

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of (1455.11.21 – death 1460.03.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Mayene, western Germany) (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24) * Daniele(1470.12.10 – ?) * Raphael (1487.02.16 – ?) * Adriano de Arnoldis, O. Carm. (1518.09.18 – ?) * Antonio Pasquali, O.F.M. Conv. (1520.10.12 – ?) * Miguel de Sanguesa,

Cistercians The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

(O. Cist.) (1537.04.29 – death 1548), also

of (1537.04.20 – 1548) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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) (1537.04.20 – 1548) * André Tissier, O.F.M. (1551.03.04 – ?) * György Zalatnaky (1551.03.04 – 1600.12.20), previously Bishop of

Knin Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...

(? – 1598.04.16); later Bishop of

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) (1600.12.20 – death 1605) * Alfonso de Requeséns Fenollet, O.F.M. (1610.08.30 – 1625.10.06); previously Bishop of

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(

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) (1610.08.30 – 1625.10.06); later Bishop of

Barbastro Barbastro (Latin: ''Barbastrum'' or ''Civitas Barbastrensis'', Aragonese: ''Balbastro'') is a city in the Somontano county, province of Huesca, Spain. The city (also known originally as Barbastra or Bergiduna) is at the junction of the rivers Cinc ...

(Spain) (1625.10.06 – 1639.04.08) * Vincenzo Zucconi (1627.08.30 – ?), also Bishop of

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Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

Titular bishopric A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

of Risinium (Latin name; Curiate Italian Risinio) It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting (lowest) episcopal rank ''with two archiepiscopal exceptions'': :TO BE ELABORATED * Ubald Langlois,

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, ...

(O.M.I.) (1938.03.30 – 1953.09.18) * Alphonse-Célestin-Basile Baud,

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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1954.04.10 – 1955.09.14) * Raul Zambrano Camader (1956.12.29 – 1962.04.26) * Charles Borromeo McLaughlin (1964.01.13 – 1968.05.02) * ''

Titular Archbishop 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 ...

Paolo Botto (1969.05.02 – 1970.12.03)'' * ''Titular Archbishop Reginaldo Giuseppe Maria Addazi,

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.) (1971.07.03 – 1975.02.07)'' * Giovanni Pes (1975.04.25 – 1979.05.23) * Władysław Ziółek (1980.03.12 – 1986.01.24) (later Archbishop) * Abraham Escudero Montoya (1986.05.22 – 1990.04.30) * John Richard McNamara (1992.04.14 – 2001.04.16) * Bishop Gáspár Ladocsi (2001.11.28 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Esztergom–Budapest (Hungary)

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