Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar

Archdiocese of Zadar Archidioecesis Iadrensis Zadarska nadbiskupija
Map of deaneries and parishes
Location
Country	Croatia
Metropolitan	Subjected directly to the Holy See
Statistics
Area	3,009 km2 (1,162 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	~164.310[1] ~151.215[2] (92.03%)
Parishes	119
Schools	2
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	• 3rd century (Diocese) • 1154 (Archdiocese) • 1828 (Dalmatian Metropolitanate) • 1932 (Lost status of Metropolitanate; annexed to Šibenik) • 1948 (Archdiocese declared again)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Anastasia
Saint	Anastasia of Sirmium
Secular priests	77[3]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Želimir Puljić
Vicar General	Josip Lenkić[4]
Map
Archdiocese of Zadar
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar (Croatian: Zadarska nadbiskupija; Latin: Archidioecesis Iadrensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Croatia.^[5][6] The diocese was established in the 3rd century AD and was made an archdiocese by the Pope Anastasius IV in 1154. Today, it is not part of any ecclesiastical province of Croatia but is only Croatian Archdiocese subjected directly to the Holy See.

History

Zadar (modern Croatia) has been a Roman Catholic diocese in Dalmatia since AD 381 and, since 1146, an archdiocese. Its succession of bishops numbers over eighty without noteworthy interruption. Bishop Sabinianus is mentioned in the "Register" of Gregory the Great. In one of his letters Pope John VIII names St. Donatus as patron of Jadera, Zadar's former name. Archaeologists find in Zadar many traces of ecclesiastical sculpture with German characteristics dating from the migration of the Germanic tribes. Zadar was the capital of Byzantine Dalmatia, but an example of Carolingian architecture is also found there, indicating that Zadar may once have belonged to the Franks and possibly explaining a visit of Bishop Donatus to Charlemagne in Dietenhofen.

Since Zadar belonged to Venice, the bishops of Grado had exercised patriarchal jurisdiction over it. In 1276 Patriarch Ægidius summoned Archbishop John with his suffragans to the Council of Grado where they were, however, represented by deputies. Archbishop Nicholas III of Zadar was present at the synod convened by Cardinal Guido of Santa Cecilia at Padua in 1350. Twenty constitutions were published, chiefly against the civil life of the clergy and the power of the laity as used against the clergy and church property. Worthy of high respect was Ægidius of Viterbo who governed the archdiocese for two years. In the first session of the Fifth Lateran Council he said: "Homines per sacra immutari fas est non sacra perhomines" ("Man must be changed by what is holy, not what is holy by man"). He also addressed the following words to the warlike Julius II, who sought to increase the possessions of the Church:

Archbishop Godeassi attended the Synod of Vienna in 1849. Archbishop Pietro Doimo Maupas was present at the First Vatican Council.

Ordinaries

Deaneries and parishes

Gallery

• 
  Church of St. Donatus and Archbishops palace (orange building)
• 
  St. Anastasia Cathedral
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  Benedictine monastery of St. Mary
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  St. Simeon's Church
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  St Dominic's Church
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  Church of Our Lady of Health
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  Monastery of St. Francis Assisi (Zadar)
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  Church of St Andrew's and St Peter the Elder's
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  Chapel of St Demetrius
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  Archdiocesan seminary
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  Church of Our Lady of Loreto in Arbanasi
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  Church of St. Grisogono
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  Church of the Holy Cross in Nin
• 
  Church of St. Nicholas in Nin

See also

• The church and monastery of St. Michael in Zadar - Croatia

References

1. ↑ http://www.zadarskanadbiskupija.hr/?page_id=10
2. ↑ http://www.zadarskanadbiskupija.hr/?page_id=10
3. ↑ http://www.zadarskanadbiskupija.hr/?page_id=3848
4. ↑ http://www.zadarskanadbiskupija.hr/?page_id=9410
5. ↑ "Archdiocese of Zadar (Zara)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016. 
6. ↑ "Archdiocese of Zadar" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
7. ↑ http://www.zadarskanadbiskupija.hr/?page_id=3447
8. ↑ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/zada0.htm
9. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=2aAuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover
10. ↑ Sethre, Janet (2003). The Souls of Venice. pp. 54–55. ISBN 0-7864-1573-8.
11. ↑ Facts on File Yearbook. Vol. 5. p 78
12. ↑ "Archbishop Mattias Dvornik". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 June 2015. 
13. ↑ "Archbishop Vincent Pulisic". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 June 2015. 
14. ↑ "Archbishop Pietro Doimo Munzani". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 13 March 2015. 
15. ↑ "Archbishop Mate Garkovic". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 13 March 2015. 
16. ↑ "Archbishop Marijan Oblak". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 8 March 2015. 
17. ↑ "Archbishop Ivan Prendja". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 8 March 2015. 
18. ↑ "Archbishop Želimir Puljić". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 8 March 2015. 
19. ↑ http://www.zadarskanadbiskupija.hr/?page_id=3447
20. ↑ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/zada0.htm
21. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=2aAuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover

External links

• Zadarska nadbiskupija (Croatian)

Coordinates: 44°06′57″N 15°13′28″E / 44.1159°N 15.2245°E / 44.1159; 15.2245