The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodomeria was a late-medieval
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Catholic diocese in
Lodomeria
Lodomeria is the Latinized name of Volodymyr ( Old Slavic: , ; , ; ; ), a Ruthenian principality also referred to as the Principality of Volhynia, which was founded by the Rurik dynasty in 987 in the western parts of Kievan Rus'. It was centere ...
(roughly
Volhynia
Volhynia or Volynia ( ; see #Names and etymology, below) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and northwestern Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but in ...
, in modern
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
) from 1375 till 1425. Lodomeria is a derivative of Wolodomeria based in
Volodymyr. The diocese preceded
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk which was formed on its territory. In 1425 the diocese of Lodomeria was merged with its former junior diocese moving its bishop see to Lutsk by
Andrzej Spławski.
History
* Established in 1375 as Diocese of Lodomeria (Latin) / Włodzimierz (Polish) / Volodymyr (Ukrainian), on territory split off from the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Halyč.
* Lost territory in 1404 to establish the
Diocese of Luceoria / Luck (Polish) / Lutsk
* Suppressed on 1425.12.19, its territory being merged into the
Diocese of Luck and Włodzimierz.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman Rite
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)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Lodomeria''
* Mikołaj (1380 – retired 1400.02.17), emeritate as
Titular Bishop
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 ...
of
Selymbria
Selymbria (),Demosthenes, '' de Rhod. lib.'', p. 198, ed. Reiske. or Selybria (Σηλυβρία), or Selybrie (Σηλυβρίη), was a town of ancient Thrace on the Propontis, 22 Roman miles east from Perinthus, and 44 Roman miles west from Cons ...
(1400.02.17 – ?death ?)
* Zbigniew z Łapanowa (1400 – 1413.08.20), next Bishop of
Kamyanets-Podilsky (Ukraine) (1413.08.20 – death 1428)
* Jarosław z Lublina,
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic Church, Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilians, Castilian priest named Saint Dominic, Dominic de Gu ...
(O.P.) (1414.04.30 – ?).
See also
*
Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia (overlapping territory but Byzantine Rite)
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Ukraine
Sources and references
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Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Ex-Soviet Europe
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