Andrew () served as an

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appointed Andrew as Archbishop of Antivari in 1307. However, around this time, King

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began persecuting Catholics. In 1319, he was prosecuted by the

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on three charges. These charges included using the false deposal of Albanian bishop Mihovil to install abbot Lazarus in his place, without the knowledge of

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. Andrew was also accused of seizing the right to name the bishop of Drivast. Because of these accusations, the Pope ordered an ecclesiastical suspension to which Andrew voluntarily stepped down as Archbishop in 1324. By one hypothesis, Andrew was the author of the ''

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'' (1308), a geographical treatise on southeastern Europe composed for

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.Alexandru Madgearu, ''The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins'' (The Scarecrow Press, 2008), p. 30.

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