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The diocese of Pult (lat. Dioecesis Pulatensis ) was a Catholic diocese in the territory of Albania . It was founded in the 9th century , had been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bar since the 11th century and was then subordinate to the Archdiocese of Shkodra in the 19th century . In the course of the anti-religious repression of the Albanian communists, it practically ceased to exist in the 1960s , but was re-established in 1991 after the ban on religion was lifted .
The area of the diocese was northeast of Shkodra in the Albanian Alps . It had an area of 1,750 km² in the Dukagjin area. The bishopric was in the village of Xhan in the Kir Valley . In the 1990s there were 18 parishes with 30,640 Catholics; that was 74.7% of the population living on its territory. Since it had no diocesan priests, the pastoral care was provided entirely by eight religious priests, supported by a lay brother and seven religious sisters.
Since the death of Bishop Robert Ashta OFM in 1998, the diocese of Pult has been co-administered by the Archdiocese of Shkodra and finally united with it in 2004.
literature
- Albania Sacra. 4: Diocese of Pulati . In: Peter Bartl (ed.): Spiritual visitation reports from Albania (= Albanian research . Volume 26.4 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-10845-4 .
- Daniele Farlati : Illyricum Sacrum . VII: Ecclesia Diocletana, Antibarensis, Dyrrhachiensis, et Sirmiensis. Venice 1817, p. 248-269 .
- Stan Sherer, Marjorie Senechal: My Name is Robert Ashta . In: Long Life to Your Children! A Portrait of High Albania . The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1997, ISBN 1-55849-096-5 , pp. 64 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Engelbert Deusch: Das k. (U) k. Cultural protectorate in the Albanian settlement area. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78150-9