The Diocese of Arbe or Diocese of Rab or Diocese of Arba (Latin: Dioecesis Arbensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of
Arbe (modern day Rab) on the Croatian island of the same name located just off the Adriatic coast of northern
Dalmatia, in
Croatia, where still stands the former
cathedral, dedicated to the
Assumption of Mary.
Crisogono de Dominis (1363.06.07 – 1372.07.14), next Bishop of
Traù (Croatia) (1372.07.14 – 1403), Metropolitan Archbishop of
Kalocsa (
Hungary) (1403 – ? not possessed)
Zodenigo Zodenighi (1372.11.03 – death 1412.01.06)
Martino Carnota (Marino Carnota) (1414.02.11 – 1423.05.07), next Bishop of
Traù (
Trogir, Croatia) (1423.05.07 – 1424.12.11), Bishop of
Trieste (Italy) (1424.12.11 – 1441)
Francesco Servandi,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (1423.05.07 – 1428.02.24); next Bishop of
Koper (
Slovenia) (1428.02.24 – death 1448.03.29)
Angelo Cavazza (23 Feb 1428 - 7 Jan 1433), next Bishop of
Poreč (Croatia) (1433.01.07 – 1440.04.11), Bishop of
Traù (Trogir, Croatia) (1440.04.11 – death 1452.05)
Jean de Parenzo (7 Jan 1433 - 11 April 1440), next Bishop of
Poreč (Croatia) (1440.04.11 – 1457), Bishop of
Cittanova (1442 – death 1448)
Matteo Ermolao II (11 April 1440 - ?death ?1443), previously Bishop of
Sapë (
Albania) (1433.03.06 – 1440.04.11)
Nicola da Zara, O.P. (24 July 1443 - death 1447), previously Bishop of
Senj (Croatia) (1442.05.04 – 1443.07.24)
Leonello Chiericato (8 Jan 1472 - 19 Jan 1484), next Bishop of
Traù (Trogir, Croatia) (1484.01.19 – 1488.10.22), Bishop of
Concordia (Italy) (1488.10.22 – death 1506.08.19)
Antonio Rosignoli (30 March 1700 - 27 Nov 1713), next Bishop of
Nona (now Nin, Croatia) (1713.11.27 – ?death)
Vincenzio Lessio (11 Dec 1713 - 2 Oct 1719), next Bishop of
Krk (Croatia) (1719.10.02 – ?)
Doymus Zeni (6 May 1720 - March death 1728)
Andrea Carlovich (15 Dec 1728 - death 12 Jan 1738)
Pacifico Bizza (24 Nov 1738 - 17 Jan 1746), next Archbishop of Metropolitan
Salona (now Split, Croatia) (1746.01.17 – death 1756)
Giovanni Calebotta (14 June 1746 - 16 Feb 1756), next Bishop of
Šibenik(Croatia) (1756.02.16 – death 1759.02.28)
Giovanni Luca Garagnin (24 May 1756 - 5 June 1765), next Archbishop of Metropolitan
Salona (now Split, Croatia) (1765.06.05 – death 1780.10.20)
Giovanni Battista Jurileo (9 Dec 1765 - 29 July 1771), next
Bishop of Nona (now Nin, Croatia) (1771.07.29 – death 1788)
Giovanni Maria Antonio dall'Ostia (16 Dec 1771 - death 26 Oct 1794)
Giovanni Pietro Galzigna (1 June 1795 - death 26 Dec 1823), previously Bishop of
Traù (Trogir, Croatia) (1790.11.29 – 1795.06.01)
See suppressed: 30 June 1828
Titular see
It was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
Titular bishopric of Arba (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Arbe / Arben(sis) (Latin adjective).[1]
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B. (1950.06.25 – 1960.07.05) as last
Apostolic Vicar of
Bahama Islands (
Bahamas) (1950.06.25 – 1960.07.05); next (see) promoted first Bishop of Nassau (Bahamas) (1960.07.05 – retired 1981.06.17); died 1984
Edward Ernest Swanstrom (1960.09.14 – death 1985.08.10) first as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of New York (NY, USA) (1960.09.14 – retired 1978.04.04), then as emeritate
Jan Pawel Lenga,
Marian Fathers (M.I.C.) (Ukrainian) (1991.04.13 – 1999.07.07) as only 'permanent'
Apostolic Administrator of
Kazakhstan (
Kazakhstan) (1991.04.13 – 1999.07.07); next (see) promoted only Bishop of
Karaganda (Kazakhstan) (1999.07.07 – 2003.05.17), (personally) promoted again
Archbishop-Bishop of Karaganda (2003.05.17 – retired 2011.02.05)
Zacharias C. Jimenez (2003.06.11 – ...), first as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Butuan (
Philippines) (2003.06.11 – 2009.05.07), then on emeritate (2009.05.07 - ...); previously Bishop of
Pagadian (Philippines) (1994.12.02 – 2003.06.11).