Roman Catholic Diocese of Drivasto

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The Diocese of Drivasto or Diocese of Drivost (Latin: Dioecesis Drivastensis) was a Roman Catholic bishopric with see in the town of Drivasto (modern day Drisht in Postribë, 16 km north of Scutari, northern Albania) from circa 400 to 1650 and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.[1] It was suppressed in 1650 (merged into the Diocese of Shkodrë) but restored as Latin titular see.[1]

History[]

  • Established probably in the fifth century (certainly no later than the ninth) as the Diocese of Drivasto (Curiate Italian) / Drisht (Shqipetar) / Drivasten(sis) (Latin), without direct precursor [1] It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Doclea (Albania; later united with Antivari) in the papal sway, and part of the twelfth century a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ragusa.
  • Suppressed in 1650, merged into the Diocese of Shkodrë[1]
  • 1933: Restored as Episcopal Titular see of Drivasto, see below

Episcopal Ordinaries[]

(all Latin Rite)

incomplete, notably lacking almost completely the first 9 centuries
Suffragan Bishops of Drivastrum
  • ? 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[2]
  • ...
  • in 877 the anonymous incumbent attends a council at Dumno (concilium Delmitanum).
  • ...
  • The see is mentioned (not its incumbent) in various papal documents starting with a letter from Pope Alexander II (1061–1073) to Metropolitan Petrus (Pietro) of the united archbishoprics of Doclea and Antivari in 1062, amongst its suffragans
  • Pope Callixtus II (1119–1124) mentions the diocese in 1122 as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ragusa (in Dalmatia, Croatia), but so after Antivari is its Metropolitan again
  • Petrus (Pietro) I (recorded from 1142 – 1153? Deposed according to Farlati)
  • Martinus (from 1166 – last in 1167)
  • Petrus = Pietro II (recorded in 1199)
  • ...
  • Domenico (? – death 1322)
  • Nicola, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (28 Feb 1323 – 17 Dec 1324), next Bishop Argos (insular Greece) (1324.12.17 – death 1334)
  • ...
  • Bernardo (1351.12.26 – ?)
  • Giovanni Andrea (1359 – 1373.05.18), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro) (1373.05.18 – 1382)
  • Bernardo (1373 – 1374.04.29), next Bishop of Kotor (Cattaro, Montenegro) (1374.04.29 – ?)
  • Atanasio (1374.04.29 – ?)
  • Nicola Bazie, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1391.02.15 – 1394.02.16), next Bishop of Caorle (1394.02.16 – ?)
  • Andrea de Montanea, O.F.M. (1398.08.16 – ?)
  • Bartolomeo Puonbiolus (1400? – 1404 deposed)
  • Francesco da Scutari, O.F.M. (1405.12.01 – 1424.05.24), next Bishop of Ulcinj = Dulcigno (1424.05.24 – ?)
  • Nicola Wallibassa (1424.05.24 – 1425 not possessed), previously
  • = Dionigi da Knin, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (29 Nov 1425 – 1428.10.11 deposed)
  • Michele Paoli (1428.10.11 – death 1445?), previously Bishop of Balecio (1424.09.01 – 1428.10.11)
  • Paolo Dusso (1445.12.22 – from 1454 in commendam – death? 1455), 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 (1440.11.16 – 1445.12.22), from 1454 Bishop of (Carniola, Slovenia)
  • Terslav (? – death 1489), last actual residential bishop, slain as the Ottoman conquerors sacked the city
  • , Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (3 March 1636 – death 2 January 1648),[1] was appointed as (last) 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;

  • Francesco de Ecclesia (1489.12.02 – ?)
  • Benedetto Kornis, Norbertines (O. Praem.) (1512.10.29 – ?)
  • , O.F.M. (10 Nov 1518 – death 1520)
  • Giovanni de Zaguis, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1520.01.13 – 1520?)
  • , Mercedarians (O. de M.) (6 Feb 1521 – 1525?)
  • Bishop-elect Pedro Fernández de Jaén, O.P. (Spanish) (1525.03.20 – ?), also Auxiliary Bishop of Jaén (Andalusia, southern Spain) (1525.03.20 – ?)
  • Francisco Solís (? – death 1540?)
  • (4 May 1541 – ?)
...

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Drivastum (Latin) / Drivasto (Curiate Italian) / Drivasten(sis) (Latin adjective).[1]

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with a few archiepiscopal exceptions :[1]

  • Cipriano Cassini (趙信義), Jesuits (S.J.) (1936.12.23 – 1946.04.11) as last Apostolic Vicar of Bengbu 蚌埠 (PR China) (1937.01.15 – 1946.04.11), next promoted first Bishop of Bengbu 蚌埠 (1946.04.11 – 1951.06.11)
  • Daniel Liston, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (born Ireland) (1947.03.13 – 1949.12.19) as Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Louis (Mauritius) (1947.03.13 – 1949.12.19), next succeeding as Bishop of Port-Louis (1949.12.19 – retired 1968.04.23), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Summa (1968.04.23 – resigned 1970.12.07), died 1986
  • João Floriano Loewenau, O.F.M. (born Poland) (1950.09.08 – 1979.06.04) as Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Santarém (Brazil, now a diocese) (1950.09.08 – 1957.09.12), later Bishop-Prelate of daughter see Territorial Prelature of Óbidos (Brazil) (1957.09.12 – 1972)
  • Rafael Barraza Sánchez (1979.10.26 – 1981.10.19) as Auxiliary Bishop of Durango (Mexico) (1979.10.26 – 1981.10.19), later Bishop of Mazatlán (Mexico) (1981.10.19 – retired 2005.03.03)
  • Titular Archbishop: Traian Crisan (born Romania) (1981.12.07 – death 1990.11.06), Secretary of Congregation for the Causes of Saints (1981.12.07 – 1990.02.24); previously Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints (1979 – 1981.12.07)
  • Bruno Bertagna (Italian) (1990.12.15 – 2007.02.15 see below), as Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State (1990.12.15 – 1994), Secretary of Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts (1994 – 2007.02.15), Auditor General of Apostolic Camera (2006.12.18 – 2010.10.12); previously Cleric Prelate of Apostolic Camera (1989.02.28 – 1990.12.15)
  • Titular Archbishop: Bruno Bertagna (see above 2007.02.15 – death 2013.10.31) as Auditor General of Apostolic Camera (2006.12.18 – 2010.10.12), Vice-President of Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts (2007.02.15 – 2010.10.12) and as emeritate
  • Paul Tighe (Irish) (2015.12.19 – ...), Roman Curia official : Adjunct Secretary of Pontifical Council for Culture (2015.12.19 – ...), Member of as Secretary of Pontifical Council for Social Communications (2007.11.30 – 2015.12.19); previously Member of (2014.07.09 – 2015).

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Titular Episcopal See of Drivastum" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved July 17, 2016
  2. ^ assigned by Lequin, contested by Farlati and Gams

Sources and external links[]

Bibliography
  • Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, vol. II, coll. 252–253
  • John Van Antwerp Fine, The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century, Ann Arbor 2000, p. 223
  • John Van Antwerp Fine, The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, Ann Arbor 1994, pp. 45–46
  • J. Valentini, 'Drivasto', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIV, Paris, 1960, coll. 796–798
  • Daniele Farlati-Jacopo Coleti, Illyricum Sacrum, vol. VII, Venice 1817, pp. 232–248
  • Acta et diplomata res Albaniae mediae aetatis illustrantia, ed. Ludovicus de Thallóczy, Constantinus Jireček e Emilianus de Sufflay, Vol. I, Vienna 1913 - Vol. II, Vienna, 1918
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, pp. 406, 408
  • Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1, p. 227; vol. 2, p. 145; vol. 3, pp. 187–188; vol. 4, p. 177
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