Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bar

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bar is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Montenegro. It is centred in the city of Bar. It was erected as a diocese in the 9th century and elevated to an archdiocese in 1089. The Archbishops regularly wear titles of "Serbian Primates" (Primas Serbiae), implemented as a permanent part of the title by Archbishop Stephen Tegliatti.

The archdiocese's cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bar. Zef Gashi currently serves as Archbishop in the archdiocese. Since the death of Bishop Marko Sopi of Kosovo's Prizren Diocese, Gashi has also served as its administrator.

The Catholics of this Archdiocese are mostly located on littoral (Bar, Ulcinj) and some small communities of Catholics in cities like Nikšić and Cetinje. The Church's faithful are mostly ethnic Albanians, as well as its current Archbishop, while the second by numbers are Croats (mostly on Littoral).

In 1923, Traboin, Tuzi, Grude, and Klezna were added to the Archbishopric from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shkodër (Scutari). In 1969, the territory of the municipalities of Plav, Gusinje, and Militarian Settlements were added to the Archbishopric from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Skopje.

[edit] Archbishops

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• Petar (1064 - 1094)
• Sergej (1094?/ca. 1110? - 1124?)
• Ilija (ca. 1124 - 1140)
• Grgur Grizgono (1172 - 1196), Author of the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
• Ivan I (? - 1247)
• Ivan II (1248 - 1252)
• Gufrid (April 1253 - 1254)
• Lovro I(1255 - 1270)
• Gašpar Adam (1270 - 1280)
• Mihailo (1282 - 1298)
• Marin Petrov Žaretić (1301 - 1306)
• Andrija I (1307 - 1324)
• Gijom Adam (1324 - 1341)
• Ivan III (1341 - 1347)
• Dominik (1349 - 1360)
• Stefan (1361 - 1363)
• Ivan IV (1363 - 1373)
• Ivan V (1373 - 1382)
• Antun (1383 - 1390)
• Rajmund (1391 - 1395)
• Ludovik Bonito (1395)
• Marin II (1396 - 1420)
• Ivan VI (1420 - 1422)
• Petar II (1423 - 1448)
• Andrija II (1448 - 1459)
• Lovro II (1459 - 1460)
• Marko I (1460 - 1461)
• Šimun Vosić (1462 - 1473)
• Stefan II Teglatije (1473 - 1485)
• Filip Gajo (1485 - 1509)
• Jeronim (1509 - 1517)
• Lovro III (1517 - 1525)
• Ivan VII (1525? - 1528?)
• Ludovik II (1528 - 1551)
• Ivan VIII (1551 - 1571)
• Teodor (1575)
• Ambrozije Kapić (1579 - 1598)
• Toma Ursini (1598 - 1607)
• Marin III Bici (1608 - 1624)
• Petar III (1624 - 1634)
• Đorđe Blanco (1635 - 1644)
• Frano I (Leonardi Franjo) (1644 - 1646)
• Josip Buonaldo (1646 - 1653)
• Marko II (1654 - 1656)
• Andrija III Zmajević (1671 - 1694)
• Marko III Đorga (1696 - 1700)
• Vićenco (Vicko) Zmajević (1701 - 1713)
• Egidio Kvinćo (1719 - 1722?)
• Matija (Štukanović?) (1722 - 1744?)
• Marko IV (1745 - 1749)
• Lazar Vladanji (1749 - 1786)
• Đerđa II Junki (1786 - 1787)
• Đerđa III (1787 - 1790)
• Frano II (1791 - 1822)
• Vinćenco II (1824 - 1839)
• Poten Karlo (1855 - 1886)
• Šimun Milinović (1886 - 1910)
• Nikola Dobrečić (1912 - 1955)
• Aleksandar Tokić (1955 - 1979)
• Petar Perkolić (1979 - 1997)
• Zef Gashi (1998 - Present)

[edit] Sources

• Istorijski Leksion Crne Gore Book One: A-Crn ISBN 86-7706-165-7

[edit] External links

• A short look at the history of the Bishoprics of Kotor and Bar