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Archdiocese of Gorizia
The Archdiocese of Gorizia (Latin: Archidioecesis Goritiensis is a Latinarchdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. The archiepiscopal see of Gorizia (Friulian: Gurizza/Gurizze; German: Görz; Slovene: Gorica) was founded in 1751 when the Patriarchate of Aquileia was abolished, and its territory divided between two new dioceses, Udine and Gorizia. The diocese of Gorizia was suppressed in 1788 for the creation of the Diocese of Gradisca (union of the Archdiocese of Gorizia and Dioceses of Trieste and Pedena) and re-established in 1791 as the Diocese of Gorizia e Gradisca. It was raised again to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1830.
The diocese of Ljubljana (Laibach), Trieste-Koper (Capo d'Istria), PoreÄ-Pula (Parenzo-Pola), and Krk-Rab (Veglia-Arbe) were formerly under the metropolitan jurisdiction of this archdiocese; however, now the Diocese of Trieste is its only suffragan diocese.
The territory of the Archdiocese included the main part of the Austro-HungarianCounty of Gorizia and Gradisca until 1918 when it was transferred to Italy at the conclusion of the First World War.
Also from 1766, the archbishop was Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and, from its establishment in 1861 until 1918, a member of the Austrian House of Lords.