Roman Catholic Diocese of Novigrad

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Novigrad (alias Diocese of Cittanova in Italian) was a Latin rite diocese located in the city of Novigrad, Istria, Croatia until it was suppressed to the Diocese of Trieste in 1831.[1][2]

History

TO ELABORATE [2]
  • Established in 520 as the Diocese of Cittanova/ Novigrad, on reassigned territory from the suppressed Diocese of Emona
  • Lost territory in 542 to establish the Diocese of Trieste (Italy)
  • Gained territory back in 557 from above daughter Diocese of Trieste
  • Lost territory in 811 to the Patriarchate of Aquileia (Italy)
  • Held in personal union ('United aeque principaliter) with the (also Croatia]]) Diocese of Poreč 1442–1448
  • united aeque principaliter with the Patriarchate of Grado (Italy) 1448–1451.10.08
  • united aeque principaliter with the Patriarchate of Venice (Venezia, Italy; Grado's Patriarchal successor see) 1451.10.08–1465
  • Gained territory back in 1784 from above Italian daughter Diocese of Trieste
  • Suppressed on 30 June 1828, its territory being merged into the Diocese of Trieste[2] via the papal bull, Locum Beati Petri, issued by Pope Leo XII on 30 June 1828; other sources state the official suppression came later on 23 May 1831[2]

Residential Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

incomplete : first centuries lacking
Suffragan Bishops of Cittanova/ Novigrad
  • Leonardo (1212? – death 1224)
  • Canziano (1228? – ?)
  • Gerardo (1230.06.05 – 1237?)
  • Bonaccorso (1243? – 1260?)
  • Nicolò (1269? – ?)
  • Egidio (1279? – 1283?)
  • Simone (1284.05.15 – 1301?)
  • Giraldo, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1308 – 1310?)
  • Canziano (1318 – death 1330.04.04)
  • Natale Bonafede (1330 – death 1344?)
  • Giovanni Morosini, O.E.S.A. (1347.02.12 – death 1358?)
  • Guglielmo Conti, O.P. (1359.03.15 – ?)
  • Giovanni Grandi(s), Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (21 April 1363 - death 1365)
  • Marino Michiel (1366.01.14 – death 1374?)
  • Nicolò Montaperto, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1376.05.14 – 1377.02.18), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily, Italy) (1377.02.18 – death 1382)
  • Archbishop-bishop Ambrogio da Parma (1377.02.20 – 1380.10.10), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Oristano (Italy) (1364 – 1377.02.20); later Archbishop-Bishop of Concordia (Italy) (1380.10.10 – 1389), Archbishop-Bishop of Tuscanella (1389 – 1391), Archbishop-Bishop of Viterbo (Italy) (1389 – death 1391)
  • Paolo da Montefeltro, O.E.S.A. (1382.04 – 1400.08)
  • Tommaso Tommasini Paruta, O.P. (1409 – 1420.03.04), next Bishop of Pula (Croatia) (1420.03.04 – 1423.09.24), Bishop of Urbino (Italy) (1423.09.24 – 1424.12.11), Bishop of Traù (1424.12.11 – 1435.10.24), Bishop of Macerata (Italy) (1435.10.24 – 1440.10.15), Bishop of Recanati (Italy) (1435.10.24 – 1440.10.15), Bishop of Feltre (Italy) (1440.10.15 – death 1446.03.24)
  • Giacomo de Montina, O.F.M. (1409.09.09 – ?)
  • Daniel Rampi Scoto (26 Feb 1421 - 7 Jan 1426), ?next Bishop of Poreč
  • Filippo Paruta (1426.01.07 – 1426.04.02), next Bishop of Torcello (Italy) (1426.04.02 – 1448.02.20), Metropolitan Archbishop of Crete (insular Greece) (1448.02.20 – death 1458)
  • Giovanni Morosini (1426.11.05 – 1442?), succeeding as previous Apostolic Administrator of Cittanova (1426.05.27 – 1426.11.05)
  • Giovanni di Parenzo (1442 – retired 1448), died 1457; previously Bishop of Arba (Croatia) (1433.01.07 – 1440.04.11), Bishop of Poreč (Croatia) (1440.04.11 – 1457)
Patriarch of Grado and Suffragan Bishop of Cittanova/ Novigrad
  • Domenico Michiel (1448 – 1451), only incumbent in personal union Patriarch of Grado (Italy) (1445.01.08 – 1451)
Patriarchs of Venice and Suffragan Bishops of Cittanova/ Novigrad
  • Saint Lorenzo Giustiniani (1451.10.08 – 1456.01.08), first in personal union Patriarch of Venezia (Venice, Italy) (1451.10.08 – 1456.01.08); previously Bishop of Castello (1433.05.12 – 1451.10.08)
  • Maffio Contarini (1456 – 1460)
  • Andrea Bondimerio, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (1460 – 1464)
  • Gregorio Correr (1464 – 1464)
  • Giovanni Barozzi (1465.01.07 – death 1465); previously Bishop of Bergamo (Italy) (1449.10.31 – 1465.01.07)
Suffragan Bishops of Cittanova/ Novigrad
  • Francesco Contarini (1466 – 1495)
  • Marcantonio Foscarini (1495 – death 1521)
  • Archbishop-bishop Antonio Marcello, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (1521.09.06 – 1526), previously Titular Archbishop of Patrasso (Patrae, peninsular Greece) (1520.05.21 – 1521.09.06)
  • Vincenzo de Benedictis (1535.05.10 – death 1536)
  • Alessandro Orsi (1536.09.01 – 1559)
  • Matteo Priuli (bishop) (1561.09.05 – 1565.04.13)
  • Gerolamo Vielmi, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1570.07.19 – death 1582.03.07)
  • Antonio Saraceno (1582.03.28 – death 1606.11.07)
  • Franciscus Manin(i) (4 July 1607 - death Sep 1619)
  • Eusebius Caimus (10 Feb 1620 - death Oct 1640)
  • Jacobus Philippus Tomasini (16 June 1642 - death June 1655)
  • Giorgio Darmini (30 August 1655 - death Oct 1670), previously Bishop of Caorle (1653.11.24 – 1655.08.30)
  • Giacomo Bruti (1 July 1671 - death Nov 1679)
  • Nicolaus Gabrieli (19 June 1684 - 12 April 1717)
  • Daniele Sansoni (14 June 1717 - death March 1725), previously Bishop of Caorle (1712.07 – 1717.07.14)
  • Vittorio Mazzocca, O.P. (11 June 1725 - death 14 May 1732)
  • Gaspar Negri (21 July 1732 - 22 Jan 1742), next Bishop of Diocese of Poreč (Croatia) (1742.01.22 – death 1778.01)
  • Marino Bozzatini (9 July 1742 - death 9 July 1754)
  • Stefano di Leoni (16 Sep 1754 - death May 1776)
  • Giovanni Domenico Straticò, O.P. (15 July 1776 - 20 Sep 1784), next Bishop of Hvar (Croatia) (1784.09.20 – death 1799)
  • Antonio Giovanni Giuseppe Lucovich (20 Sep 1784 - death 2 Dec 1794)
  • Teodoro Lauretano Balbi (1 June 1795 - death 23 May 1831).

Titular see

In 1969 the see was nominally restored but demoted as Latin Titular bishopric of Novigrad.[2]

It has had the following titular incumbents, either of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank or of higher, archiepiscopal rank:

See also

References

  1. "Diocese of Novigrad (Cittanova)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Titular Episcopal See of Novigrad" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016

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