The Diocese of Arbe or Diocese of Rab or Diocese of Arba (Latin: ''Dioecesis Arbensis'') was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of
Arbe (modern day Rab) on the Croatian island of the same name located just off the Adriatic coast of northern
Dalmatia
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, in
Croatia
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, where still stands the former
cathedral
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, dedicated to the
Assumption of Mary
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It leaves open the question of w ...
.
History
The diocese was ancient as it was founded no later than 532, and in the papal sway, originally as
suffragan
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In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...
of the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Salona, later transferred to the
ecclesiastical province
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of the
Archdiocese of Spalato (later Salona, then Split, now Spalato-Macarsca).
On 17 October 1154 it became
suffragan
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In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...
of the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Zara.
On 30 June 1828, while inner Dalmatia was part of the
Austrian empire
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, the bishopric was suppressed by
Pope Leo XII
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's
papal bulla ''
Locum Beati Petri'', along with the
Diocese of Ossero, and their territories merged into the
Diocese of Veglia, also called the
Diocese of Krk.
["Titular Episcopal See of Arba"]
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Episcopal ordinaries
;''Suffragan Bishops of Arbe''
* Tiziano (Titianus), in 532 attended the
Council of Salona (now Split, Croatia)
* Pietro I (mentioned in 986)
* Maggio (in 1018)
* Dragone (before 1068 - till 1071)
* Pietro II (mentioned in 1072)
* Gregorio (in 1075)
* Domano ( circa 108)
* Vitale (Vitalis) (in 1086)
* Pietro III (in 1094)
* Lupo or Paolo (Paulus) † (circa 1097 - 1110)
* Bono (1111 – 1145)
* Andrea (1179? – 1193?)
* Prodano del Lauro (1205 – 1212)
* Venanzio (1216 – ?)
* Andrea (1220 – ?)
* Giovanni (1225 – 1225)
* Giordano (1225 – 1238)
* Paolo (1239 – 1243)
* Stefano de Dominis (1249 – 1258)
* Gregorio Ermolao (1260 – death 1289?)
* Matteo Ermolao I(1291? – 1292)
* Giorgio Ermolao I (1292 – death 1313)
* Aimone,
Order of Saint Benedict
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(O.S.B.) (1313.01.13 – 1317?), previously Bishop of
Oleno (peninsular
Greece
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) (1310? – 1313.01.13)
* Francesco de Filippo (1321 – ?)
* Giorgio Ermolao II (1329 – death 1363)
* Crisogono de Dominis (1363.06.07 – 1372.07.14), next Bishop of
Traù (Croatia) (1372.07.14 – 1403), Metropolitan Archbishop of
Kalocsa (
Hungary
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) (1403 – ? not possessed)
* Zodenigo Zodenighi (1372.11.03 – death 1412.01.06)
* Martino Carnota (Marino Carnota) (1414.02.11 – 1423.05.07), next Bishop of
Traù (
Trogir
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, Croatia) (1423.05.07 – 1424.12.11), Bishop of
Trieste
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(Italy) (1424.12.11 – 1441)
* Francesco Servandi,
Dominican Order
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(O.P.) (1423.05.07 – 1428.02.24); next Bishop of
Koper
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(
Slovenia
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) (1428.02.24 – death 1448.03.29)
* Angelo Cavazza (23 Feb 1428 - 7 Jan 1433), next Bishop of
Poreč
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(Croatia) (1433.01.07 – 1440.04.11), Bishop of
Traù (Trogir, Croatia) (1440.04.11 – death 1452.05)
* Jean de Parenzo (7 Jan 1433 - 11 April 1440), next Bishop of
Poreč
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(Croatia) (1440.04.11 – 1457), Bishop of
Cittanova (1442 – death 1448)
* Matteo Ermolao II (11 April 1440 - ?death ?1443), previously Bishop of
Sapë (
Albania
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) (1433.03.06 – 1440.04.11)
*
Nicola da Zara, O.P. (24 July 1443 - death 1447), previously Bishop of
Senj
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The symbol of the town is the Nehaj Fortress () which was completed in 1558. For a time this was the seat of the Uskoks, who were ...
(Croatia) (1442.05.04 – 1443.07.24)
*
Giovanni Scaffa (18 Sep 1450 - death ?1471)
*
Leonello Chiericato (8 Jan 1472 - 19 Jan 1484), next Bishop of
Traù (Trogir, Croatia) (1484.01.19 – 1488.10.22), Bishop of
Concordia (Italy) (1488.10.22 – death 1506.08.19)
*
Alonso Malumbra (19 Jan 1484 - death 1514)
*
Vincenzo Negusanti (20 Nov 1514 - resigned 1567)
* Biagio Sideneo (1567.10.08 – death 1583.06.11)
* Andrea Cernota, Observant?
Franciscans
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(O.F.M. Obs.) (1583.08.08 – death 1588)
* Pasquale da Padova,
Camaldolese Benedictines (O.S.B. Cam.) (1588.09.19 – death 1621)
*
Theodorus Georgi,
Order of Saint Benedict
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(O.S.B.) (25 Oct 1621 - death 1635)
*
Pietro Gaudenzi (bishop) (3 March 1636 - death 1664)
*
Domnii Gaudenzi (9 June 1664 - death June 1695)
* Ottavio =
Octavius Spader,
Order of Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (28 Nov 1695 - 19 Dec 1698), next Bishop of
Assisi
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It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Prope ...
(Italy) (1698.12.19 – death 1715.03.24)
* Antonio Rosignoli (30 March 1700 - 27 Nov 1713), next Bishop of
Nona (now Nin, Croatia) (1713.11.27 – ?death)
* Vincenzio Lessio (11 Dec 1713 - 2 Oct 1719), next Bishop of
Krk
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(Croatia) (1719.10.02 – ?)
* Doymus Zeni (6 May 1720 - March death 1728)
* Andrea Carlovich (15 Dec 1728 - death 12 Jan 1738)
* Pacifico Bizza (24 Nov 1738 - 17 Jan 1746), next Archbishop of Metropolitan
Salona
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(now Split, Croatia) (1746.01.17 – death 1756)
* Giovanni Calebotta (14 June 1746 - 16 Feb 1756), next Bishop of
Šibenik
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(Croatia) (1756.02.16 – death 1759.02.28)
* Giovanni Luca Garagnin (24 May 1756 - 5 June 1765), next Archbishop of Metropolitan
Salona
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(now Split, Croatia) (1765.06.05 – death 1780.10.20)
* Giovanni Battista Jurileo (9 Dec 1765 - 29 July 1771), next
Bishop of Nona (now Nin, Croatia) (1771.07.29 – death 1788)
* Giovanni Maria Antonio dall'Ostia (16 Dec 1771 - death 26 Oct 1794)
* Giovanni Pietro Galzigna (1 June 1795 - death 26 Dec 1823), previously Bishop of
Traù (Trogir, Croatia) (1790.11.29 – 1795.06.01)
''See suppressed: 30 June 1828''
Titular see
It was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
Titular bishopric
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of Arba (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Arbe / Arben(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B. (1950.06.25 – 1960.07.05) as last
Apostolic Vicar
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*The Twelve Apostles of Jesus, or something related to them, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles
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of
Bahama Islands (
Bahamas
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) (1950.06.25 – 1960.07.05); next (see) promoted first Bishop of Nassau (Bahamas) (1960.07.05 – retired 1981.06.17); died 1984
* Edward Ernest Swanstrom (1960.09.14 – death 1985.08.10) first as
Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of
Archdiocese of New York
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(NY, USA) (1960.09.14 – retired 1978.04.04), then as emeritate
* Patricio Maqui Lopez (1985.10.16 – death 1991.02.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia
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The archdiocese was erected in 1595 in ...
(
Philippines
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) (1985.10.16 – 1991.02.20)
* Jan Pawel Lenga,
Marian Fathers (M.I.C.) (Ukrainian) (1991.04.13 – 1999.07.07) as only 'permanent'
Apostolic Administrator
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of
Kazakhstan
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(
Kazakhstan
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) (1991.04.13 – 1999.07.07); next (see) promoted only Bishop of
Karaganda (Kazakhstan) (1999.07.07 – 2003.05.17), (personally) promoted again
Archbishop-Bishop of Karaganda (2003.05.17 – retired 2011.02.05)
* Cyryl Klimowicz (1999.10.13 – 2003.04.17) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev (
Belarus
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) (1999.10.13 – 2003.04.17); later Bishop of
Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (
Russia
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) (2003.04.17 – ...) and
Apostolic Administrator
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of
Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) (2003.04.17 – ...)
* Zacharias C. Jimenez (2003.06.11 – ...), first as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Butuan (
Philippines
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) (2003.06.11 – 2009.05.07), then on emeritate (2009.05.07 - ...); previously Bishop of
Pagadian
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(Philippines) (1994.12.02 – 2003.06.11).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Croatia
*
Catholic Church in Croatia
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References
Sources and external links
GCatholic - former & titular see; Bibliography
*
papal bulla 'Locum beati Petri', in ''Raffaele de Martinis, Iuris pontificii de propaganda fide. Pars prima'', vol. IV, Rome 1891, p. 697
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, pp. 394–395
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, p. 101; vol. 2, p. 92; vol. 3, p. 115; vol. 4, p. 91; vol. 5, p. 95; vol. 6, p. 95
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