Roman Catholic Diocese of Drivasto

History

• Established probably in the fifth century as the Diocese of Drivasto / Drisht / Drivasten, without direct precursor It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Doclea in the papal sway, and part of the twelfth century a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ragusa.
• Suppressed in 1650, merged into the Diocese of Shkodrë
• 1933: Restored as Episcopal Titular see of Drivasto, see below

  Episcopal Ordinaries

• ? Paulus, episcopus Prinatenus, signing the letter of the bishops from Epirus Novus province to Byzantine emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 after the lynching by Coptic mobs of Patriarch Proterius of Alexandria
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• in 877 the anonymous incumbent attends a council at Dumno.
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• The see is mentioned in various papal documents starting with a letter from Pope Alexander II to Metropolitan Petrus of the united archbishoprics of Doclea and Antivari in 1062, amongst its suffragans
• Pope Callixtus II mentions the diocese in 1122 as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ragusa, but so after Antivari is its Metropolitan again
• Petrus I
• Martinus
• Petrus = Pietro II
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• Domenico
• Nicola, Order of Saint Augustine , next Bishop Argos
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• Bernardo
• Giovanni Andrea, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Bar
• Bernardo, next Bishop of Kotor
• Atanasio
• Nicola Bazie, Order of Friars Minor , next Bishop of Caorle
• Andrea de Montanea, O.F.M.
• Bartolomeo Puonbiolus
• Francesco da Scutari, O.F.M., next Bishop of Ulcinj = Dulcigno
• Nicola Wallibassa, previously
• Denis von Knin = Dionigi da Knin, Order of Preachers
• Michele Paoli, previously Bishop of Balecio
• Paolo Dusso, gifted politician, sympathized with the oriental rites, mediator between Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg and his adversaries, instructed by the Holy See concerning a crusade against the Ottoman Turks; previously Bishop of Svač, from 1454 Bishop of Krain
• Terslav, last actual residential bishop, slain as the Ottoman conquerors sacked the city
• Girolamo Lucich, Order of Friars Minor , was appointed as residential bishop, but never took up residence and consented on 20 April 1641 to hand the diocesan administration to the Diocese of Scutari.

  Titular see

• Francesco de Ecclesia
• Benedetto Kornis, Norbertines
• Francisco Mora, O.F.M.
• Giovanni de Zaguis, Benedictine Order
• Gonzalo de Ubeda, Mercedarians
• Bishop-elect Pedro Fernández de Jaén, O.P. , also Auxiliary Bishop of Jaén
• Francisco Solís
• Alfonso de Sanabria

• Cipriano Cassini, Jesuits as last Apostolic Vicar of Bengbu 蚌埠 , next promoted first Bishop of Bengbu 蚌埠
• Daniel Liston, Holy Ghost Fathers as Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Louis , next succeeding as Bishop of Port-Louis, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Summa, died 1986
• João Floriano Loewenau, O.F.M. as Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Santarém , later Bishop-Prelate of daughter see Territorial Prelature of Óbidos
• Rafael Barraza Sánchez as Auxiliary Bishop of Durango , later Bishop of Mazatlán
• Titular Archbishop: Traian Crisan , Secretary of Congregation for the Causes of Saints ; previously Undersecretary of Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints
• Bruno Bertagna , as Secretary of Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State, Secretary of Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Auditor General of Apostolic Camera ; previously Cleric Prelate of Apostolic Camera
• '' Titular Archbishop: Bruno Bertagna as Auditor General of Apostolic Camera, Vice-President of Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts and as emeritate
• Paul Tighe , Roman Curia official : Adjunct Secretary of Pontifical Council for Culture, Member of Vatican Media Committee as Secretary of Pontifical Council for Social Communications ; previously Member of Committee for the reform for the Vatican Media.