Roman Catholic Diocese of Drivasto


The Diocese of Drivasto or Diocese of Drivast was a Roman Catholic bishopric with see in the town of Drivasto from circa 400 to 1650 and is now a Latin Catholic titular see. It was suppressed in 1650 but restored as Latin titular see.

History

List of Episcopal Ordinaries (incomplete)

? Paulus episcopus Prinatenus, signing the letter of the bishops from Epirus Novus province to Byzantine emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 after the lynching by Coptic mobs of Patriarch Proterius of Alexandria
  • ...Unknown - in 877 the anonymous incumbent attends a council at Dumno.
  • ...Unknown - The see is mentioned in various papal documents starting with a letter from Pope Alexander II to Metropolitan Petrus of the united archbishoprics of Doclea and Antivari, and lists Drivastum, in 1062, amongst its suffragans. The letter is dated 18 March 1067. This is confirmed on 8 January 1089 by Pope Clement III.? Elia : Pope Callixtus II mentions the diocese in 1122 as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ragusa Petrus I Martinus Petrus II Unknown Unknown
  • ...Dominicus Nicolaus, Order of Saint Augustine, next Bishop Argos
  • ...B... Only the "B" initial is known about this bishop.Giovanni Andrea , next Metropolitan Archbishop of Bar Bernardus , next Bishop of Kotor Athanasius He had served the church of Saint Andrea in Padova. Nicolaus II Bazie, Order of Friars Minor , next Bishop of Caorle Andreas de Montanea, O.F.M. Bartholomaus Puonbiolus Francesco da Scutari, O.F.M. , next Bishop of Ulcinj = Dulcigno Nicolaus III Wallibassa Dionisius of Knin, Order of Preachers Michael Paoli, previously Bishop of Balecio Paulus Dussus, gifted politician, sympathized with the oriental rites, mediator between Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg and his adversaries, instructed by the Holy See concerning a crusade against the Ottoman Turks; previously Bishop of Svač, from 1454 Bishop of Krain
  • Nicolaus IV
  • Thomas Terslav , last actual residential bishop, slain as the Ottoman conquerors sacked and destroyed the city.
  • Franciscus II ,
  • Girolamo Lucich, Order of Friars Minor, was appointed as residential bishop, but never took up residence and consented on 20 April 1641 to hand the diocesan administration to the Diocese of Scutari.

Titular see

During the Ottoman rule from 1489, the see was truly in paribus infidelium, and Rome appointed titular bishops who usually served as auxiliary bishop in some residential diocese;
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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Drivastum / Drivasto / Drivasten.
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank, with a few archiepiscopal exceptions :