Roman Catholic Diocese of Knin


The Diocese of Knin was founded in 1050 and is today a titular see of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church. Its cathedra was located in Knin, Croatia (925–1102)|Croatia].

History

The history of the diocese of Knin can be traced from the mid-11th century when a court bishop was established by the Kings of Croatia under the title "Bishop of the Croats". Its see was originally located in the Romanesque church of Saint Mary in the royal village of Biskupija near Knin. Following the 1185 ecclesial council in Split, the bishop was transferred to Knin, and renamed "Bishop of Knin". The construction of a new cathedral was initiated in 1203, on the basis of a previous 10th-century royal monastery in Kapitul, and was consecrated during the tenure of Bishop Nicholas.
A history of the successive bishops, from Mark in 1050 to Joseph in 1755, is given in Daniele Farlati's Illyricum sacrum, IV. The bishops who held the title no longer resided in Knin after it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1522. After Venice captured the area in 1768, the bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Šibenik] was appointed to administer the diocese. In 1828 Pope Leo XII erected the ecclesiastical province of Dalmatia in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, in the papal bull Locum Beati Petri, through which he suppressed the diocese and transferred its territory to the Diocese of Šibenik.

List of bishops

Residential bishops

  • Marco Giudice
  • Raniero
  • Anastasio I
  • Gregorio
  • Pietro
  • Anastasio II
  • V.
  • Dede
  • Flasco
  • Giorgio
  • Unnamed bishop
  • Michus
  • Ladislav
  • Nikola I
  • Y.
  • Pierre Boncher
  • Leonardo da Spalato
  • Giovanni de Cors, later Bishop of Tivoli
  • Tommaso
  • Nikola II
  • Dionizije Lacković, later Bishop of Zagreb , Metropolitan Archbishop of Kalocsa
  • Blaž
  • Johann von Töckheim, later Bishop of Gurk
  • Miklós I, later Bishop of Csanád
  • Pál
  • uncanonical Pierre de Marnhac
  • Michele da Ragusa
  • László
  • Miklós II
  • Miklós III
  • Ivan
  • Demetrij Čupor Moslavački 1°, next Bishop of Zagreb
  • Benedikt de Zolio, previously Bishop of Zagreb ; later again Bishop of Zagreb
  • Demetrij Čupor Moslavački 2° , next again Bishop of Zagreb , finally Bishop of Győr
  • Franjo Speravić
  • Marco da Fiume, previously Bishop of Senj
  • Miklós IV
  • Niccolò de Monte
  • Brizio, previously Bishop of Croia ; later Bishop of Chersonissos
  • Martino
  • Andrea Lagogne
  • Matthaeus Unadopya
  • Ferdinandus de Saxamone
  • Franciscus de Reucon
  • Andrea
  • Jean de Vaulx
  • Jean Vallier, later Bishop of Grasse
  • Matthias Zabergyei, later Bishop of Roman Catholic [Diocese of Oradea Mare|Oradea Mare]
  • Pavao de Churina
  • János Újlaky, later Bishop of Vác
  • Andrija Dudić ), later Bishop of Csanád , Bishop of Pécs
  • István Fejérkővy, later Bishop of Veszprém , Bishop of Nitra , Metropolitan Archbishop of Esztergom
  • Zakariás Mossóczy , later Bishop of Vác , Bishop of Nitra
  • Petar Herešinec, later Bishop of Zagreb , Bishop of Győr
  • János Cserödy ; later, uncanonically, Bishop of Pécs and Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Eger
  • Miklós Mikáczy, later Bishop of Risano, Bishop of Pécs
  • Matija Drašković
  • Mátyás Máthészy
  • Pál David
  • János Jovanczy
  • Juraj Bjelavić
  • Cristóbal de Rojas y Spínola, later Bishop of Wiener Neustadt
  • Aleksandar Ignacije Mikulić Brokunovečki, later Bishop of Zagreb
  • Blažej Jáklin, Bishop of Nitra
  • Miklós Antal Esterházy
  • Franz Ferdinand von Rummel, later Bishop of Wien (Vienna)
  • András Matusseck
  • György Gyllany
  • Gregor Sorger, later Bishop of Transilvania
  • Sándor Máriássy
  • Jozef Karol Zbiško
  • János Szily , later Bishop of Szombathely
  • József Pierer, previously Bishop of Šibenik
  • Dávid Szolnai
  • László Csáky de Keresztszegh

    Titular bishops

It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest rank :