The Diocese of Svač ( la, Dioecesis Suacinensis, sq, Dioqeza e Shasit, sr, Svačka biskupija) was a bishopric with see in the town of Svač (Latinized as Suacia), which is today the village lying to the east of

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that is called in Serbian Шас, in Croat Šas and in Albanian Shas.

History

The area was part of the late

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of Dalmatia Superior, and the

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, which includes the diocese in its list of Latin

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s, accordingly treats it as a

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of the

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. The diocese of Svač (Suacia in Italian, Šas in Croatian, Suacium in Latin) was established circa 1000. The see of the Diocese of Svač was suppressed in 1530, when its canonical territory was incorporated into that of the Albanian then Diocese of Shkodrë, now the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shkodër-Pult.

Episcopal ordinaries

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; probably incomplete, notably much of the first centuries) ;''Suffragan (?) Bishops of Svač * Basilio (1141? – 1150?) * Pietro (1166.06 – ?) * Dominio (1190? – 1199.09) * G. (1200–?) * ? Mark (ca. 1262) * ? Peter (ca. 1284) * Gregorio (1303?–1307) * Benedetto (1307.12.24 – 1317.07.08), later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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) (1317.07.08 – death 1317) * Zaccaria,

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O.P.) (1318.07.13 – ?) * Sergio (? – death 1345?) * Paolo,

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(O. Carm.) (1345–?) * Pietro (1363?–?) * Minore (? – 1403.09.13), later Archbishop of Durrës (Durazzo,

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) (1403.09.13 – ?) * Petrus Kirten (1404.02.27 – ?) * Antonio da Firenze,

(O.P.) (1418.08.12 – ?) * Pietro (1420 – 1435.05.14), later Bishop of

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) (1435.05.14 – death 1441?) * Sergio (1439.05.18 – ?death ?1440) * Paolo Dusso (1440.11.16 – 1445.12.22), later Bishop of

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(Albania) (1445.12.22 – 1455) * Antonio da Fabriano,

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O.F.M.) (1446.07.18 – 1465.04.20), later Bishop of

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(northeastern

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) (1465.04.20 – death 1469) * Francesco (? – death 1507?) * Stefano (1507.02.07 – ?) * Nicola (1517.04.08 – ?) * Giovanni Rosa (1520.01.27 – 1524.10.12), later Bishop of Skradin (Croatia) (1524.10.12 – 1531.04.23), then Bishop of

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(Croatia) (1531.04.23 – 1549) while remaining

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of above Skradin (1531.04.23 – 1549) * Tommaso (1530.07.13 – ?)

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as titular bishopric of Suacia. It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank: * Denis J. Moynihan (17 July 1969 – 10 December 1970), on emeritate, formerly Bishop of

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History

Episcopal ordinaries

Titular see

See also

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