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Arbanum is a town, former bishopric and present titular see in present Albania. [1]

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Latin bishopric

Arbanum was established circa 1100 as Diocese of Arbano (or Albania), suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Durrës (Italian Durazzo).

It was suppressed in 1640, its territory being merged into that of its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Durrës (Durazzo), to which its last incumbent was appointed.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Arbano

(incomplete : first centuries unavailable)

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Titular bishopric of Arbanum (Curiate Italian Arbano).

It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

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References

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