TheDiocese of Arbe orDiocese of Rab orDiocese of Arba (Latin:Dioecesis Arbensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town ofArbe (modern day Rab) on the Croatian island of the same name located just off the Adriatic coast of northernDalmatia, inCroatia, where still stands the formercathedral, dedicated to theAssumption of Mary.
The diocese was ancient as it was founded no later than 532, and in the papal sway, originally assuffragan of the MetropolitanArchdiocese of Salona, later transferred to theecclesiastical province of theArchdiocese of Spalato (later Salona, then Split, now Spalato-Macarsca).[citation needed]
On 17 October 1154 it becamesuffragan of the MetropolitanArchdiocese of Zara.[citation needed]
On 30 June 1828, while inner Dalmatia was part of theAustrian empire, the bishopric was suppressed byPope Leo XII'spapal bullaLocum Beati Petri, along with theDiocese of Ossero, and their territories merged into theDiocese of Veglia, also called theDiocese of Krk.[1][2]
Episcopal ordinaries
[edit]- Suffragan Bishops of Arbe
- Tiziano (Titianus), in 532 attended theCouncil 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 (O.S.B.) (1313.01.13 – 1317?), previously Bishop ofOleno (peninsularGreece) (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 ofTraù (Croatia) (1372.07.14 – 1403), Metropolitan Archbishop ofKalocsa (Hungary) (1403 – ? not possessed)
- Zodenigo Zodenighi (1372.11.03 – death 1412.01.06)
- Martino Carnota (Marino Carnota) (1414.02.11 – 1423.05.07), next Bishop ofTraù (Trogir, Croatia) (1423.05.07 – 1424.12.11), Bishop ofTrieste (Italy) (1424.12.11 – 1441)
- Francesco Servandi,Dominican Order (O.P.) (1423.05.07 – 1428.02.24); next Bishop ofKoper (Slovenia) (1428.02.24 – death 1448.03.29)
- Angelo Cavazza (23 Feb 1428 - 7 Jan 1433), next Bishop ofPoreč (Croatia) (1433.01.07 – 1440.04.11), Bishop ofTraù (Trogir, Croatia) (1440.04.11 – death 1452.05)
- Jean de Parenzo (7 Jan 1433 - 11 April 1440), next Bishop ofPoreč (Croatia) (1440.04.11 – 1457), Bishop ofCittanova (1442 – death 1448)
- Matteo Ermolao II (11 April 1440 - ?death ?1443), previously Bishop ofSapë (Albania) (1433.03.06 – 1440.04.11)
- Nicola da Zara, O.P. (24 July 1443 - death 1447), previously Bishop ofSenj (Croatia) (1442.05.04 – 1443.07.24)
- Giovanni Scaffa (18 Sep 1450 - death ?1471)
- Leonello Chiericato (8 Jan 1472 - 19 Jan 1484), next Bishop ofTraù (Trogir, Croatia) (1484.01.19 – 1488.10.22), Bishop ofConcordia (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 (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 (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 (O.F.M.) (28 Nov 1695 - 19 Dec 1698), next Bishop ofAssisi (Italy) (1698.12.19 – death 1715.03.24)
- Antonio Rosignoli (30 March 1700 - 27 Nov 1713), next Bishop ofNona (now Nin, Croatia) (1713.11.27 – ?death)
- Vincenzio Lessio (11 Dec 1713 - 2 Oct 1719), next Bishop ofKrk (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 MetropolitanSalona (now Split, Croatia) (1746.01.17 – death 1756)
- Giovanni Calebotta (14 June 1746 - 16 Feb 1756), next Bishop ofŠibenik(Croatia) (1756.02.16 – death 1759.02.28)
- Giovanni Luca Garagnin (24 May 1756 - 5 June 1765), next Archbishop of MetropolitanSalona (now Split, Croatia) (1765.06.05 – death 1780.10.20)
- Giovanni Battista Jurileo (9 Dec 1765 - 29 July 1771), nextBishop 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 ofTraù (Trogir, Croatia) (1790.11.29 – 1795.06.01)
See suppressed: 30 June 1828
It was nominally restored in 1933 as LatinTitular bishopric of Arba (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Arbe / Arben(sis) (Latin adjective).[1]
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
Sources and external links
[edit]- Bibliography
- papal bulla 'Locum beati Petri', inRaffaele 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
