Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult

• Former cathedral: Church of St. Nicholas, at Xhan, Shkodër
• National Shrine of the Virgin of Good Counsel: Shenjtërorja e Zojës së Shkodrës.

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Ecclesiastical province

• the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lezhë
• the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë.

  History

• The diocese of Scutari was established circa 305. The first known bishop was Bassus. The bishops of Scutari were at first subject to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salonica, Primatial see of all Illyricum, but when Byzantine emperor Justinian I transferred the primacy, they became suffragans of the Archdiocese of Justiniana Prima. In the early Middle Ages Scutari was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dioclea. From 1063 to 1886 53 bishops of Scutari are known.
• In 1571 it gained territory from the suppressed diocese of Suacium. The ancient diocese of Ulcinium, in the territory of Scutari, was, in 1571, occupied by the Ottoman Turks and ceased to exist. Its bishops were suffragans of the Archbishop of Antivari.
• In 1650 it gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Drivasto. Other ancient sees in this territory were the Diocese of Dinnastrum and Diocese of Balazum.
• On 1867.03.14 it was promoted as Archdiocese of Shkodrë / Scodren when Scutari was aeque principaliter united with the Archdiocese of Antivari, and in this way Pope Pius IX made Scutari an archdiocese. The first archbishop of the united diocese, Mgr. Karl Pooten, native of Teveren near Geilenkirchen, Germany, who had been Apostolic Administrator of Antivari, died at Scutari on 15 January 1886.
• On 23 October 1886, it was promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shkodrë / Scodren, while the Archdiocese of Scutari was again separated from that of Antivari, and remained an archdiocese with three suffragans : the diocese of Alessio, diocese of Sappa and diocese of Pulati.
• On 2005.01.25 it was renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shkodrë–Pult / Shkodër–Pult / Shkodra–Pulati / Scutari–Pult / Scodren–Pulaten, having gained merged-in territory from the suppressed Diocese of Pult
• It enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II in April 1993.

  Episcopal ordinaries

• Bassus
• Senecio
• Andrew
• Stephen
• John
• Constantine

• George I
• Peter I
• Anonymous
• Stephen = Stefano
• Miroslav
• Teodorico
• Peter II ?= Pietro
• Marcus = Marco I
• Martinus = Martino I
• Antin de Seluciis = da Saluzzo, Dominican Order
• Francis = Francesco I
• Henry = Enrico, Friars Minor
• Andruin = Andruino
• Christopher = Cristoforo, Augustinian Order , next Bishop of Polignano
• Migliorino Manfredi, O.F.M.
• Bartolomeo Vanni, O.E.S.A., previously Bishop of Kotor , Bishop of Calvi ; later Bishop of Bovino
• Progon = Progano Printzenago
• John = Giovanni I
• Emmanuel = Emanuele, O.P.
• Thaddeus = Taddeo Pascaligo
• Bartholomew , also Apostolic Administrator of Sapë ; later Bishop of Poreč
• Francis II, O.F.M.
• Nicholas = Nicolò Lupi
• Nicholas II
• Jacob , O.E.S.A.
• Peter II = Pedro Cardona, Augustinian Canons Regular
• Jerome = Girolamo Vascheri, O.F.M., next Bishop of Guardialfiera
• Anthony I = Antonio Beccari, O.P.
• Melchiorre Pelletta
• Theodore = Teodoro Calompsi
• Paul I = Paolo da Zara, O.P.
• Duka
• Andrew I = Andrea
• Dominic I = Domenico Andreassi, O.F.M.
• ? Benedict
• Francis III = Francesco Cruta
• Gregory = Gregorio Frasini, O.F.M.
• Peter III = Pietro Bogdano, also Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Bar ; next Metropolitan Archbishop of Skopje
• Dominic II = Domenico Bubić
• Andrew II
• * Apostolic administrator Marinus II = Marino Drago, while Bishop of Kotor ; later Bishop of Budua, Bishop of Korcula
• Anthony II
• Anthony III = Antonio Negri
• * Apostolic Administrator Father Peter Karagić, O.F.M., no previous prelature; later Bishop of Pult , Metropolitan Archbishop of Skopje
• Antonio IV Babbi
• Anthony V = Antonio Vladagni
• Paul II = Paolo Campsi, also Bishop of Lezhë
• George II = Giorgio Angelo Radovani, previously Apostolic Vicar of Sofia–Plovdiv ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Bar and Bishop of Budua
• Francis IV , next Metropolitan Archbishop of Bar and Bishop of Budua
• Matthew
• Antonio Angelo Radovani, previously Bishop of Sapë , previously Bishop of Pult
• Nikolla Muriqi
• Ambrogio Bruci
• Benigno Albertini, Franciscans
• Loius I , next Bishop of Verona
• *Apostolic Administrator Giovanni Topić, O.F.M. Obs., while Bishop of Lezhë
• Giovanni Topić = John II, O.F.M. Obs., emeritate 'promoted' as Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis
• Louis II , next Titular Archbishop of Irenopolis as Apostolic Vicar of Egypt and Apostolic Delegate to Egypt and Arabia ; previously Bishop of Lezhë , Titular Bishop of Delcus as Coadjutor Bishop of Shkodrë

• Pascal , emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Melitene ; previously Titular Bishop of Paphos as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Bar
• * Auxiliary Bishop: Andrea Logorezzi , Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Skopje
• * Coadjutor Archbishop: Lazaro Miedia = Lazarus , Titular Archbishop of Areopolis ; previously Bishop of Sapë ; next Metropolitan Archbishop of Skopje
• Giacomo Sereggi = Jacob , previously Bishop of Sapë ; emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Cyzicus
• Lazaro Miedia = Lazarus
• Gaspar
• *Apostolic Administrator Ernesto Çoba, Titular Bishop of Midaëum
• Francis , also President of Episcopal Conference of Albania
• * Auxiliary Bishop: Zef Simoni , Titular Bishop of Bararus

• Angel , President of Episcopal Conference of Albania, previously Bishop of Rrëshen .