Diocese of Arbe
The Diocese of Arbe or Diocese of Rab or Diocese of Arba was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Arbe on the Croatian island of the same name located just off the Adriatic coast of northern Dalmatia, in Croatia, where still stands the former cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.
History
The diocese was ancient as it was founded no later than 532, and in the papal sway, originally as suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salona, later transferred to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Spalato.On 17 October 1154 it became suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zara.
On 30 June 1828, while inner Dalmatia was part of the Austrian empire, the bishopric was suppressed by Pope Leo XII'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.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Arbe- Tiziano, in 532 attended the Council of Salona
- Pietro I
- Maggio
- Dragone
- Pietro II
- Gregorio
- Domano
- Vitale
- Pietro III
- Lupo or Paolo †
- Bono
- Andrea
- Prodano del Lauro
- Venanzio
- Andrea
- Giovanni
- Giordano
- Paolo
- Stefano de Dominis
- Gregorio Ermolao
- Matteo Ermolao I
- Giorgio Ermolao I
- Aimone, Order of Saint Benedict, previously Bishop of Oleno
- Francesco de Filippo
- Giorgio Ermolao II
- Crisogono de Dominis, next Bishop of Traù, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kalocsa
- Zodenigo Zodenighi
- Martino Carnota, next Bishop of Traù, Bishop of Trieste
- Francesco Servandi, Dominican Order ; next Bishop of Koper
- Angelo Cavazza, next Bishop of Poreč, Bishop of Traù
- Jean de Parenzo, next Bishop of Poreč, Bishop of Cittanova
- Matteo Ermolao II, previously Bishop of Sapë
- Nicola da Zara, O.P., previously Bishop of Senj
- Giovanni Scaffa
- Leonello Chiericato, next Bishop of Traù, Bishop of Concordia
- Alonso Malumbra
- Vincenzo Negusanti
- Biagio Sideneo
- Andrea Cernota, Observant? Franciscans
- Pasquale da Padova, Camaldolese Benedictines
- Theodorus Georgi, Order of Saint Benedict
- Pietro Gaudenzi (bishop)
- Domnii Gaudenzi
- Ottavio = Octavius Spader, Order of Friars Minor, next Bishop of Assisi
- Antonio Rosignoli, next Bishop of Nona
- Vincenzio Lessio, next Bishop of Krk
- Doymus Zeni
- Andrea Carlovich
- Pacifico Bizza, next Archbishop of Metropolitan Salona
- Giovanni Calebotta, next Bishop of Šibenik
- Giovanni Luca Garagnin, next Archbishop of Metropolitan Salona
- Giovanni Battista Jurileo, next Bishop of Nona
- Giovanni Maria Antonio dall'Ostia
- Giovanni Pietro Galzigna, previously Bishop of Traù
Titular see
It was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Arba / Arbe / Arben.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B. as last Apostolic Vicar of Bahama Islands ; next promoted first Bishop of Nassau ; died 1984
- Edward Ernest Swanstrom first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of New York, then as emeritate
- Patricio Maqui Lopez as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia
- Jan Pawel Lenga, Marian Fathers as only 'permanent' Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan ; next promoted only Bishop of Karaganda, promoted again Archbishop-Bishop of Karaganda
- Cyryl Klimowicz as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev ; later Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk and Apostolic Administrator of Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk
- Zacharias C. Jimenez, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Butuan, then on emeritate ; previously Bishop of Diocese of Pagadian .