Narona
Narona/nəˈroʊnə/(Ancient Greek:Ναρῶνα) was an Ancient Greek trading post on the Illyrian coast and laterRomancity and bishopric, located in theNeretvavalley in present-dayVid, Croatia,which remains a Latin Catholictitular see.
History
[edit]It was founded as a Greekemporiumin c. 3rd/2nd century BC. First time it is mentioned in the chapter 24 of thePeriplus of Pseudo-Scylax.[1]Narona became the major Roman stronghold in the 1st century BC.[2]It was part of theRoman province of Dalmatia.In the 6th century AD, it came underByzantinerule. The settlement ceased to be in 7th century after the arrival ofSlavictribes in the region.
Ecclesiastical history
[edit]- In 530 was established aDiocese of Narona(Latin = Curiate Italian) / Naronen(sis) (Latin adjective), apparentlysuffraganof the MetropolitanArchdiocese of Salona(now Split).
- In 533 it lost territories to establish theDiocese of Makarskaand theDiocese of Sarsenterum
- In 600 it was suppressed, the city being ruined, its territory being merged into theDiocese of Ragusa.
The only recorded bishop was
- Marcello (530? – 533?), who attended councils of bishops at Salona in both named years.[3]
Titular see
[edit]It was nominally restored in 1933 as LatinTitular bishopricof Narona.
It has had the following incumbents, mostly of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank,with an archiepiscopal exception:
- Leo Pietsch (1948.08.27 – death 1981.09.30) asAuxiliary BishopofGraz–Seckau(Austria) (1948.08.27 – 1967) and on emeritate
- Titular Archbishop: John Bulaitis (born England, UK) (1981.11.21 – 2010.12.25) as papal diplomat:Apostolic Pro-Nuncioto Republic of Congo (1981.11.21 – 1987.07.11), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Central African Republic (1981.11.21 – 1987.07.11), Apostolic Delegate to Chad (1981.11.21 – 1987.07.11), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Iran (1987.07.11 – 1991.11.30), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Korea (1991.11.30 – 1997.03.25),Apostolic Nuncio(ambassador) to Mongolia (1992.09.08 – 1997.03.25), Apostolic Nuncio to Albania (1997.03.25 – 2008.07.26); died 2010
- Helmut Karl Dieser (2011.02.24 – 2016.09.23) as Auxiliary Bishop ofTrier(westernGermany) (2011.02.24 – 2016.09.23); later Bishop ofAachen(Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany) (2016.09.23 –...)
- Heriberto Cavazos Pérez (2016.10.31 –...), as Auxiliary Bishop ofMonterrey(Mexico) (2016.10.31 –...).
Archeology
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In 1995 aRoman templebuilding was discovered, which had been dedicated by the governorDolabellaand contained statues of the emperorsClaudiusandVespasian,as well as two ofAugustusand his wifeLivia.The statues had been vandalized in the 4th century: they were lying on the floor and their heads had been broken off. The heads of Vespasian and one of the Livias had been acquired in the surrounding area byArthur Evansin 1878. The heads were thus reunited with their bodies. The famous Roman statues have toured majorEuropeanmuseums.
A cathedral and at least two more churches were dug up.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Pseudo Scylax, Periplus, §24
- ^Pliny,Historia Naturalis3.142; G.Alföldy,Bevölkerung und Gesellschaft der römischen Provinz Dalmatien(Budapest 1965) p. 135; J. J. Wilkes, Dalmatia (London 1969) p. 160.
- ^C. L. de Voinovitch, Histoire de la Dalmatie, 2008, p. 219.
Sources and external links
[edit]- Archeological Museum of Narona -Vid Croatia
- GCatholic - former & titular bishopric
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 410
- Nuovo bullettino di archeologia cristiana, 1906, p. 211
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