Roman Catholic Diocese of Suacia
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Suacia was a bishopric with see in the town of Svač, which is today the village lying to the east of Ulcinj in Montenegro that is called in Serbian Шас, in Croat Šas and in Albanian Shas.
History
The area was part of the late Roman province of Dalmatia Superior, and the Catholic Church, which includes the diocese in its list of Latin titular sees, accordingly treats it as a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Doclea.The diocese of Svač was established circa 1000.
The see of the Diocese of Svač was suppressed in 1530, when its canonical territory was incorporated into that of the Albanian then Diocese of Shkodrë, now the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shkodër-Pult.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Svač- Basilio
- Pietro
- Dominio
- G.
- ? Mark
- ? Peter
- Gregorio
- Benedetto, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Ragusa
- Zaccaria, Dominican Order O.P.)
- Sergio
- Paolo, Carmelite Order
- Pietro
- Minore, later Archbishop of Durrës
- Petrus Kirten
- Antonio da Firenze, Dominican Order
- Pietro, later Bishop of Ulcinj
- Sergio
- Paolo Dusso, later Bishop of Drivasto
- Antonio da Fabriano, Friars Minor O.F.M.), later Bishop of Caorle
- Francesco
- Stefano
- Nicola
- Giovanni Rosa, later Bishop of Skradin , then Bishop of Krk while remaining Apostolic Administrator of above Skradin
- Tommaso
Titular see
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal rank:
- Denis J. Moynihan, on emeritate, formerly Bishop of Ross and Bishop of Kerry ; died 1975
- Charles Roman Koester, as Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis and on emeritate
- Richard Edmund Pates, as Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ; later Bishop of Des Moines
- Bernardito Cleopas Auza, as papal diplomat: Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Permanent Observer to the Organization of American States