Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bar

Archdiocese of Bar Archidioecesis Antibarensis Барска надбискупија Barska Nadbiskupija
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception near Stari Bar
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Rrok Gjonlleshaj
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The Archdiocese of Bar (

The Archbishops regularly bore titles of "Primates of Serbia" (Primas Serviae), implemented as a permanent part of the title by Archbishop Stephen Tegliatti in 1475.

The archdiocese's new cathedral is the

In 1571 when Ottomans captured Antivari the Catholic Church in border area and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bar began to collapse and main reasons for this is emigration of indigenous peoples, but also immigration of new ethnic and religious element, brought by the Ottomans. Because of a lack of Catholic priests, entire parishes were converted to Orthodoxy.^[5]

Archbishops

• Peter (1064–1094)
• Sergius (1094?/ca. 1110?–1124?)
• Elijah (ca. 1124 – 1140)
• John I (1199–1247)
• John II (Giovanni da Pian del Carpine) (1248–1252)
• Gufrid (April 1253 – 1254)
• Lawrence I (1255–1270)
• Gašpar Adam (1270–1280)
• Michael (1282–1298)
• Rudger (1298–1301), member of the
  
  Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea
• Marinus I (Marin Petrov Žaretić) (1301–1306)
• Andrew I (1307–1324)
• William I (Guillaume Adam) (1324–1341)
• John III (1341–1347)
• Dominic (1349–1360)
• Stephen (1361–1363)
• John IV (1363–1373)
• John V (1373–1382)
• Anton (1383–1390)
• Raymond (1391–1395)
• Ludovik I (Ludovik Bonito) (1395)
• Marinus II (1396–1420)
• John VI (1420–1422)
• Peter II (1423–1448)
• Andrew II (1448–1459)
• Lawrence II (1459–1460)
• Mark I (1460–1461)
• Simon I (Šimun Vosić) (1462–1473)^[6][7]
• Stephen II (Stephen Teglatius) (1473–1485)^[8]
• Philip (Philip Gaius) (1485–1509)
• Jeronim (1509–1517)
• Lawrence III (1517–1525)
• John VII (1525?–1528?)
• Ludovik II (Lodovico Chieregati) (1528–1551)
• John VIII (1551–1571)
• Theodore (1575)
• Ambrosius (
  Ambrozije Kapić
  ) (1579–1598)
• Thomas (Toma Ursini) (1598–1607)
• Marinus III (Marino Bizzi) (1608–1624)
• Peter III (Pjetër Mazreku) (1624–1634)
• George I (Gjergj Bardhi) (1635–1644)
• Francis I (
  Franjo Leonardi
  ) (1644–1646)
• Joseph (
  Josip Buonaldo
  ) (1646–1653)
• Mark II (Marco Crisio) (1654–1656)
• Andrew III (Andrija Zmajević) (1671–1694)
• Mark III (Marco Giorga) (1696–1700)
• Vincent I (Vićenco (Vicko) Zmajević) (1701–1713)
• Egidio Quinto (1719–1722?)
• Matthew (Matija Štukanović(?)) (1722–1744?)
• Mark IV (Marco de Luchi) (1745–1749)
• Lazarus I (Lazër Vladanji) (1749–1786)
• George II (
  Gjergj Junki
  ) (1786–1787)
• George III (
  Gjergj Radovani
  ) (1787–1790)
• Francis II (Francesco Borzi) (1791–1822)
• Vincent II (Vincenzo Battucci) (1824–1839)
• Charles (Karlo Poten) (1855–1886)
• Simon II (Šimun Milinović) (1886–1910)
• Nicholas (Nikola Dobrečić) (1912–1955)
• Alexander (Aleksandar Tokić) (1955–1979)
• Peter IV (Petar Perkolić) (1979–1997)
• Zef Gashi (1998–2016)
• Rrok Gjonlleshaj (5 April 2016 – )

See also

• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Montenegro

References

Sources

• Dragojlović, Dragoljub (1990). "Dyrrachium et les Évéchés de Doclea jusqu'a la fondation de l'Archevéche de Bar" (PDF). Balcanica. 21: 201–209.
• Шишић, Фердо, ed. (1928). Летопис Попа Дукљанина (Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja). Београд-Загреб: Српска краљевска академија.
• Кунчер, Драгана (2009). Gesta Regum Sclavorum. Vol. 1. Београд-Никшић: Историјски институт, Манастир Острог.
• Живковић, Тибор (2009). Gesta Regum Sclavorum. Vol. 2. Београд-Никшић: Историјски институт, Манастир Острог.

External links

• A short look at the history of the Bishoprics of Kotor and Bar
• Catholic Encyclopedia article, Antivari
• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy

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