Alba Maritima () is a Catholic
titular see
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. It corresponds to current
Biograd na Moru in Croatia. Its last titular was
archbishop
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Celso Morga Iruzubieta, until he was appointed as
coadjutor The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
These include:
* Coadjutor bishop ...
archbishop of
Mérida-Badajoz.
History
The
titular see
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refers to the diocese of
Zaravecchia (Biograd), and it is also known with the name of Alba Marittima, in
Dalmatia
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, built in the 11th century; when the city was destroyed bishops moved their titular see to
Scardona.
From the 20th century Alba Marittima has been restored as a full
Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbi ...
.
Titular bishops and archbishops
*Matthaeus Berniacovich, O.F.M. (20 December 1675 – 10 January 1707 )
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Lucas Natale (24 January 1709 Appointed – 19 January 1720 died)
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Anton von Thurn und Valsassina † (23 December 1729 – 2 March 1733)
*
Sandor Bodonyi (17 November 1806 – 1812 died)
*
Michael Johann Wagner (27 April 1833 – 1 February 1836 )
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Giovanni Battista Krapàc (20 January 1904 – 24 May 1910 )
*Dominik Premus (26 February 1915 – 27 March 1934 died)
[In the nomination act, the '']Acta Apostolicae Sedis
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'' refer to the see as ''Bellogradensis et Semendriensis graeci ritus''; while, reporting the death of the bishop in 1934, the same documents refer his titular see as Belgrad on the sea thus Alba Maritima.
*Frederick Hall, M.H.M. (9 April 1948 – 25 March 1953 nominated archbishop of Kisumu)
*
François-Marie Picaud (5 August 1954 – 29 March 1960 Died)
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Ignacy Ludwik Jeż (20 April 1960 – 28 June 1972 nominated bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg)
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Francesco Monterisi (24 December 1982 – 20 November 2010 nominated cardinal deacon of San Paolo alla Regola)
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Celso Morga Iruzubieta (29 December 2010 – 8 October 2014 nominated archbishop coadjutor of Mérida-Badajoz)
*
Augusto Paolo Lojudice, from 6 March 2015
*
Giovanni Gaspari (21 September 2020 – present)
Notes
Sources
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Dioceseat www.gcatholic.org
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Catholic titular sees in Europe