Diocese of Hvar-Brač-Vis
The Diocese of Hvar is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in the Dalmatian islands in Croatia.
The diocese was established in 1147 after the Venetian conquest of the island. The seat of the bishop was set up in Stari Grad, and the present-day Church of St. Stephen was its cathedral. The first bishop was Zadranin Martin I. Manzavini.
The new diocese was initially subject to the Archbishop of Zadar who was already under Venetian control. In 1180, the island of Hvar fell to King Bela III of Hungary and Croatia, who transferred the diocese to the archdiocese of Split in 1185.
In 1278 the seat of the diocese was transferred to Hvar which under pressure from Venice was then being developed into the major town on the island.
It is also known as the diocese of Lesina.
Ordinaries
Diocese of Hvar
1144 Erected from the Archdiocese of Salona1300: Lost territory to establish the Diocese of Korcula
Latin Name: Pharensis
Italian Name: Lesina
- Tommaso Tommasini, O.P.
- Nicolas de Crucibus
- ...
- Bernardino de Fabiis
- Frane Pritić
- Giovanni Battista Pallavicino
- Zaccaria Trevisani
- Gerolamo Argentini
- Marco Malipiero
- Zaccaria Delfino
- Martino de Martinis, S.J.
- Pietro Cedolini
- Nicolaus de Georgiis
- Vincenzo Milani
- Giovanni de Andreis
- Gerolamo Priuli, C.R.S.
- Giovanni Tommaso Rovetta, O.P.
- Raimondo Asperti, O.P.
- Domenico Nicola Condulmer
- Cesare Bonajuti
- Antun Becić
- Gioacchino Maria Pontalti, O. Carm.
- Giovanni Pietro Riboli
- Giovanni Domenico Straticò, O.P.
- Angelo Pietro Galli
- Ivan Skakoc
- Filippo Domenico Bordini
- Djorje Duboković
- Andrija Ilić
Diocese of Hvar
Latin Name: Pharensis
- Fulgencije Carev, O.F.M.
- Jordan Zaninović, O.P.
- Luca Pappafava
- Miho Pušić
- Celestin Bezmalinović, O.P.
- Slobodan Štambuk
- Petar Palić
- Ranko Vidović