Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar

Archdiocese of Zadar Archidioecesis Iadrensis Zadarska nadbiskupija
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Location
Country	Croatia
Ecclesiastical province	Splitska
Metropolitan	Exempt to Holy See
Statistics
Area	3,009 km2 (1,162 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	~164.310[1] ~151.215[1] (92.03%)
Parishes	119
Schools	2
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	• 3rd century (Diocese) • 1154 (Archdiocese) • 1828 (Dalmatian Metropolitanate) • 1932 (Lost status of Metropolitanate; annexed to Šibenik) • 1948 (Archdiocese declared again)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Anastasia
Saint	Anastasia of Sirmium
Secular priests	77[2]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Milan Zgrablić
Vicar General	Josip Lenkić[3]
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

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The Archdiocese of Zadar (Latin: Archidioecesis Iadrensis; Croatian: Zadarska nadbiskupija) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic church in Croatia.^[4][5] The diocese was established in the 3rd century AD and was made an archdiocese by the Pope Anastasius IV in 1154. Today, it is not part of any ecclesiastical province of Croatia, rather it is the only Croatian archdiocese directly subject to the Holy See.

Zadar (modern Croatia) has been a Roman Catholic diocese in Dalmatia since AD 381 and, since 1146, an archdiocese. Adrian IV placed the archdiocese of Zara under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Grado.^[6] Its succession of bishops numbers over eighty without noteworthy interruption. Bishop Sabinianus is mentioned in the "Register" of Gregory the Great. In one of his letters Pope John VIII names St. Donatus as patron of Jadera, Zadar's former name. Archaeologists find in Zadar many traces of ecclesiastical sculpture with German characteristics dating from the migration of the Germanic tribes. Zadar was the capital of Byzantine Dalmatia, but an example of Carolingian architecture is also found there, indicating that Zadar may once have belonged to the Franks and possibly explaining a visit of Bishop Donatus to Charlemagne in Dietenhofen.

Since Zadar belonged to Venice, the bishops of Grado had exercised patriarchal jurisdiction over it. In 1276 Patriarch Ægidius summoned Archbishop John with his suffragans to the Council of Grado where they were, however, represented by deputies. Archbishop Nicholas III of Zadar was present at the synod convened by Cardinal Guido of Santa Cecilia at Padua in 1350. Twenty constitutions were published, chiefly against the civil life of the clergy and the power of the laity as used against the clergy and church property. Worthy of high respect was Ægidius of Viterbo who governed the archdiocese for two years. In the first session of the Fifth Lateran Council he said: "Homines per sacra immutari fas est non sacra perhomines" ("Man must be changed by what is holy, not what is holy by man"). He also addressed the following words to the warlike Julius II, who sought to increase the possessions of the Church:

That the states of the Church number a few thousand more or less, matters not, but it does matter greatly that its members be pious and virtuous. The Church knows no weapons other than faith, virtue, and prayer.

Archbishop Godeassi attended the Synod of Vienna in 1849. Archbishop Pietro Doimo Maupas attended the First Vatican Council.

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  Church of St. Donatus and Archbishops palace (orange building)
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  St. Anastasia Cathedral
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  Benedictine monastery of St. Mary
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  St. Simeon's Church
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  St Dominic's Church
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  Church of Our Lady of Health
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  Monastery of St. Francis Assisi (Zadar)
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  Church of St Andrew's and St Peter the Elder's
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  Chapel of St Demetrius
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  Archdiocesan seminary
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  Church of Our Lady of Loreto in Arbanasi
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  Church of St. Grisogono
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  Church of the Holy Cross in Nin
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  Church of St. Nicholas in Nin

• The church and monastery of St. Michael in Zadar - Croatia

• Official website (in Croatian)

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