Daniel Vocatius

Daniel Vocatius sometimes Vocensis, Vocacensis or Vocacio (died 1577) was a Croat prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Duvno from 1551 to 1557, coadjutor bishop of Sigüenza from 1557 to 1575 and bishop of Muro Lucano from 1575 to 1577.

Biography[]

Daniel Vocatius was a native of Split in present-day Croatia. He was a Franciscan friar. On request of certain believers from the Diocese of Duvno, Pope Julius III appointed Daniel Vocatius as bishop of Duvno on 2 December 1551.^[1] He was consecrated a bishop in Rome.^[2] At the end of 1551 or in early 1552, Vocatius brought with him four diocesan priests to appoint them as vicars in the Diocese of Duvno in order to have clergy under his direct jurisdiction. However, the Bosnian Franciscans who considered that they had exclusive right on chaplaincy opposed to this and the diocesan priests were sent back.^[1] Vocatius remained bishop of Duvno until 1557, when he was appointed coadjutor bishop of Sigüenza.^[2] On 9 May 1575 Vocatius was appointed bishop of Muro Lucano by Pope Gregory XIII.^[3]

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Books

• Melchiorri de Cerreto, Stanislao (1844). Annales minorum seum trium ordinum a s. Francisco institutorum (in Latin). Ancona: Typographia Josephi Aureli.
• Perić, Ratko (2016). Svećenici glagoljaši na području BiH (in Croatian). Mostar: Crkva na kamenu.

External links and additional sources[]

• Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Muro Lucano". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
• Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Muro Lucano (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}