The Diocese of Skradin or Scardona ( la, Dioecesis Scardonensis) is an episcopal
titular see and former
Roman Catholic bishopric with see in
Skradin, central
Dalmatia
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(coastal
Croatia).
["Diocese of Scardona (Skradin)"]
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 29, 2016["Titular Episcopal See of Skradin"]
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved October 29, 2016
History
It was established in 1126, on the territory of the suppressed
Roman Catholic Diocese of Alba Maritima
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His ...
, as a
suffragan
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of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salona.
Its
cathedral episcopal see was the Cathedral 'Porođenja Blažene Djevice Marije' of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which still stands in Skradin.
The diocese was suppressed in 1828 by
papal bull ''
Locum Beati Petri'', when its territory was merged into the long-existing
Roman Catholic Diocese of Šibenik
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, a suffragan of the
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Split.
Yet there later existed another
Coadjutor Bishop
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of Skradin between 1878 and 1881, Francesco Lönhart.
Episcopal ordinaries
* Bishop Lampridio (1160? – 1171?)
* Michele (1179? – 1199?)
* Bartolomeo (1200 – 1222?), later Bishop of
Nona (also in Croatia) (1222? – ?)
* Bishop Niccolò (1229? – ?)
* Bartolomeo,
Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1240 – 1247)
*
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,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (1248? – 1265?)
* Andrea, O.P. (1270? – ?)
* Galvano, O.P. (1282? – 1284?)
* Niccolò (1285? – 1293?)
* Damiano (1300? – 1308?)
* Niccolò (1315 – ?)
* Paolo Draskovich (1320? – death 1320)
* Andrea Muscolo (1326.07.07 – death 1350?)
* Giovanni (1350.11.03 – ?)
* Michele, O.P. (1356.06.15 – death 1388)
* Francesco (1388 – death 1408?), previously Bishop of
Korcula (? – 1388)
* Pietro,
Augustinians
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(O.E.S.A.) (1410.07.30 – 1420.01.15), later Bishop of
Castro del Lazio (Italy, 1420.01.15 – ?)
* Juraj, O.F.M. (1420.01.15 – 1423), previously Bishop of
Duvno
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(Bosnia and Herzegovina) (1406? – 1412.10.21), Bishop of
Hvar (Croatia) (1412.10.21 – 1420.01.15); later again Bishop of Hvar (1423 – 1428)
* Niccolò da Spalato (1426.04.08 – death 1428)
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(yet incomplete)
Titular bishopric
It 1933, the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin
titular see of the lowest (episcopal) rank, which has repeatedly -with interruptions- been assigned :
* Cândido Lorenzo González, a
Mercederian (O. de M.) (1969.12.05 – 1978.05.26)
* Anthony Michael Pilla (1979.06.30 – 1980.11.13)
* Jude Saint-Antoine,
Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Montréal (Canada) (1981.03.20 – ...)
GCatholic retrieved 2015-8-13
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Skradin, Diocese
1828 disestablishments
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Croatia
Catholic titular sees in Europe