Osor, Croatia

Osor channel between the islands Lošinj and Cres, Croatia
Sunset in Osor

Osor (Italian: Ossero) is a village and a small port on the Cres island in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia, population 60 (2011 census).[1]

Osor lies at a narrow channel that separates islands Cres and Lošinj. The channel was built in Roman times to make sailing possible. Now the islands are connected with a rotating bridge. Originally Cres and Lošinj were one island, Osor, before the channel was cut.

History

The first settlements of the area date in the prehistoric times. In Roman times, Osor, then called Apsoros, was an important center of trade on the route to the ports of Northern Adriatic. After the fall of Roman Empire, Osor became a part of Byzantine Empire and was a seat of diocese since the 6th century.

In 840 it was burned down by Saracens,[2] in the 10th century, it came under Croatian rule. In The 14th century it was under the rule of the Republic of Venice, in the 19th under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and after First World War part of the Kingdom of Italy.

After World War II Osor-Ossero was a part of the Republic of Yugoslavia.

Today, Osor is a tourist-oriented town in the Republic of Croatia, with sculptures of Ivan Meštrović and others scattered around the center. Several camping sites are located in the surroundings.

Ecclesiastical history

Residential Bishopric

The bishopric of what was called in Latin Absorus was founded circa 600, maybe as early as the 6th century, as a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Late Roman province Dalmatia Inferior's capital Salona (later of Split), but the first bishop of the see whose name is know was Dominicus in the last third of the 9th century. It has also bee called Absor and Lusin.

The diocese was from 1146 a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zadar/Zara. Its cathedral, the Church of the Assumption, was built in 1463–1497. The area was taken by the Ottoman Empire in 1621 and held for a short time, during which its Christians travelled to Šibenik to fulfil their Easter duty of Confession and Communion.

Absorus ceased in 1828 to be a residential see, when its territory was added to that of the Croatian diocese of Krk.[3][4][5]

Suffragan Bishops of Osor

(all Roman Rite; very incomplete : first centuries unavailable)

Titular see

It is today listed by the Catholic Church as a [6] since 1933, when the diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric Osor, also named Absorus in Latin and Ossore in Curiate Italian.

It has had the following incumbents of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :

References

  1. ↑ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Osor". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  2. ↑ The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095, Hilmar C. Krueger, A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years, Vol.I, ed. Kenneth Meyer Setton, Marshall W. Baldwin, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955), 47.
  3. ↑ F. Salata, L'antica diocesi di Ossero e la liturgia slava, Pola 1897
  4. ↑ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1, pp. 66-67; vol. 2, p. 77; vol. 3, pp. 91-92; vol. 4, p. 104; vol. 5, p. 107; vol. 6, p. 109
  5. ↑ Stefano Zucchi, Fonti e studi sul vescovo Gaudenzio di Ossero, 2011
  6. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 947

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Coordinates: 44°42′N 14°24′E / 44.700°N 14.400°E / 44.700; 14.400

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