Roman Catholic Diocese of Knin

The Diocese of Tinum (now Knin) was founded in 1050 and is today a titular see of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church. Its cathedra was located in what is now called Knin.[1]

History

Knin is first mentioned in the 10th-century history of Constantine Porphyrogenitus as the centre of a parish. In the 11th century, at the request of King Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia, it became an episcopal see, whose bishop seems to have been attached to the royal court as preacher. A history of the successive bishops, from Mark in 1050 to Joseph in 1755, is given in Daniele Farlati's Illyricum sacrum, IV (Venice, 1775). The bishops who held the title no longer resided in Knin after it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1522. After Venice captured the area in 1768, the bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Šibenik was appointed to administer the diocese.[2] In 1828 Pope Leo XII erected the ecclesiastical province of Dalmatia in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, in the papal bull Locum Beati Petri,[3] through which he suppressed the diocese and transferred its territory to the Diocese of Šibenik.[2]

Suffragan bishops of Knin

Titular bishopric

It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

References

  1. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 991
  2. 1 2  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: MacErlean, Andrew (1912). "Tinin". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia 14. New York: Robert Appleton.
  3.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Krmpotic, Martin D. (1908). "Dalmatia". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia 4. New York: Robert Appleton.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 One of the episcopi Croyacenses (Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, I p. 140 and III, p. 181), whom some see as Croatians (Hrvatska revija, Volume 3,Edizioni 1-6), others as bishops of Krujë in Albania ( Ludwig von Thallóczy, Illyrisch-Albanische Forschungen, vol. I, München und Leipzig 1916, pp. 218-219 (footnote)

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