Diocese of Alba Maritima

Alba Maritima (Italian: Alba Marittima, lit. 'White city by the sea') is a Catholic titular see. It corresponds to current Biograd na Moru in Croatia. Its last titular was archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta, until he was appointed as coadjutor archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz.

History

The titular see refers to the diocese of Zaravecchia (Biograd), and it is also known with the name of Alba Marittima, in Dalmatia, built in the 11th century; when the city was destroyed^[when?] bishops moved their titular see to Scardona.

From the 20th century Alba Marittima has been restored as a full Titular see.

Titular bishops and archbishops

Matthaeus Berniacovich, O.F.M. (20 December 1675 – 10 January 1707 )
Lucas Natale (24 January 1709 Appointed – 19 January 1720 died)
Anton von Thurn und Valsassina † (23 December 1729 – 2 March 1733)
Sandor Bodonyi (17 November 1806 – 1812 died)
Michael Johann Wagner (27 April 1833 – 1 February 1836 )
Giovanni Battista Krapàc (20 January 1904 – 24 May 1910 )
Dominik Premus (26 February 1915 – 27 March 1934 died)
Frederick Hall, M.H.M. (9 April 1948 – 25 March 1953 nominated archbishop of Kisumu)
François-Marie Picaud (5 August 1954 – 29 March 1960 Died)
Ignacy Ludwik Jeż (20 April 1960 – 28 June 1972 nominated bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg)
Francesco Monterisi (24 December 1982 – 20 November 2010 nominated cardinal deacon of San Paolo alla Regola)
Celso Morga Iruzubieta (29 December 2010 – 8 October 2014 nominated archbishop coadjutor of Mérida-Badajoz)
Augusto Paolo Lojudice, from 6 March 2015
Giovanni Gaspari (21 September 2020 – present)

Notes

↑ Titular Sees ('A')
↑ Often in historical reference this titular see has been confused with the historical see of Belgrad (Beograd), known from 1290 to 1740 also as Alba Graeca, Alba Bulgarica, or Nandoralba.
↑ In the nomination act, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis refer to the see as Bellogradensis et Semendriensis graeci ritus; while, reporting the death of the bishop in 1934, the same documents refer his titular see as Belgrad on the sea thus Alba Maritima.

Sources

"diocese/d2a68". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.
Diocese at www.gcatholic.org

43°56′17″N 15°26′28″E / 43.9380°N 15.4410°E / 43.9380; 15.4410

[1] Titular Sees ('A')

[2] Often in historical reference this titular see has been confused with the historical see of Belgrad (Beograd), known from 1290 to 1740 also as Alba Graeca, Alba Bulgarica, or Nandoralba.

[3] In the nomination act, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis refer to the see as Bellogradensis et Semendriensis graeci ritus; while, reporting the death of the bishop in 1934, the same documents refer his titular see as Belgrad on the sea thus Alba Maritima.