The Diocese of Knin ( la, Tininum, also ''Tinum'') was founded in 1050 and is today a

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of the

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of the

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. Its ''

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'' was located in

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History

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The history of the diocese of Knin can be traced from the mid-11th century when a court bishop was established by the

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under the title "Bishop of the Croats" (''episcopus Chroatorum''). Its see was originally located in the Romanesque church of Saint Mary in the royal village of Biskupija near Knin. Following the 1185 ecclesial council in

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, the bishop was transferred to

, and renamed "Bishop of Knin". The construction of a new cathedral was initiated in 1203, on the basis of a previous 10th-century royal monastery in Kapitul, and was consecrated during the tenure of Bishop Nicholas (1270-1272). A history of the successive bishops, from Mark in 1050 to Joseph in 1755, is given in

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's '' Illyricum sacrum'', IV (Venice, 1775). The bishops who held the title no longer resided in Knin after it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1522. After Venice captured the area in 1768, the bishop of

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was appointed to administer the diocese. In 1828

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erected the

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of Dalmatia in the

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, in the papal bull ''

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'', through which he suppressed the diocese and transferred its territory to the Diocese of Šibenik. PecatKninKaptol

Suffragan bishops of Knin

* Marco Giudice (mentioned in 1052) * Raniero (<1059 - 1069) * Anastasio I (1069 - ?) * Gregorio (<1074 - >1075) * Pietro (1080 - ?) * Anastasio II (mentioned in 1111) * V. (mentioned in 1145 circa) * Dede (1162 - ?) * Flasco (<1177 - >1187) * Giorgio (<1196 - >1199) * Unnamed bishop (? - 11 June 1208) * Michus (circa 1210 - >1226) * Ladislav (circa 1263 - death circa 1272) * Nikola I (1272 - death 1274) * Y. (1274 - >1275) * Pierre Boncher,

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(O.P.) (1290 - ?) * Leonardo da Spalato (? - death 1322) * Giovanni de Cors, O.P. (16 September 1334 - 1 October 1337), later Bishop of Tivoli (Italy) (1337.10.01 – death 1342) * Tommaso (mentioned in 1339) * Nikola II,

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(O.S.B.) (mentioned in 1344) * Dionizije Lacković (24 March 1348 - 1349), later Bishop of

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Titular bishopric

It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank : * Alex Jordánsky (28 February 1831 - 15 February 1840) * Martin Miskolczy (14 December 1840 - ?) * Josef Krautmann (15 March 1852 - ?) * János Nehiba (20 December 1855 - 1875) * József Lányi (7 November 1906 - 28 September 1931) * Leopoldo Buteler (8 January 1932 - 13 September 1934) * Joseph Laurent Philippe (25 April 1935 - 9 October 1935) * Adolfo Vorbuchner (18 April 1936 - 28 May 1938) * Luis Guízar y Barragán (7 October 1938 - 5 April 1954) * Manuel Pereira da Costa (31 May 1954 - 20 June 1959) * Maurits Gerard De Keyzer (24 April 1962 - 19 January 1994) * Jean-Pierre Blais (3 November 1994 - 12 December 2008) * Sebastian Francis Shah,

(O.F.M.) (14 February 2009 - 14 November 2013)

References

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