Stjepan, Bishop of Duvno

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Stjepan OSB was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Duvno from 1355 to 1362 and again in 1371. He also administered the Diocese of Makarska after its bishop Valentine resigned in 1344 until his return to the diocese in 1356.

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Croatian archivist and historian Dominik Mandić could not find any documents in the Vatican archives regarding Stjepan. [1] Mandić and Ivan Ostojić state that he was from the Split Benedictines. [2] [3] Valentine, the bishop of Makarska, resigned in 1344 due to an unfavourable political situation after the patrons of the dioceses of Makarska and Duvno from the Šubić family lost political power to the Bosnian Kotromanić dynasty. [4] The administration of the diocese was granted to Stjepan. [5] He was mentioned as the bishop of Duvno in 1355 in an engraving on the walls of a chapel in the Sustjepan graveyard in Split, Croatia. [5] The chapel itself was built in 1825, but material from the much older Benedictine Abbey of Saint Stephen under Pines, including the inscription, was used in its construction. [6] The abbey served as Stjepan's residence until 1356, when it was granted to Valentine. That year, Valentine returned to Makarska as bishop after the territory of his diocese was given to King Louis I as a dowry for his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia of the Kotromanić dynasty. [5]

Stjepan was also mentioned in three documents from the chancellery of the Archdiocese of Split. In a charter from King Louis I dated 1358, Stjepan was mentioned among the witnesses, referred to as the bishop of Duvno. He was mentioned as a witness again in 1361 on the occasion of a priest's resignation of the churches of Saint John and Saint Euphemia before the Archbishop of Split Hugolin Branca. The following year, on 28 December 1362, the Archbishop referred to Stjepan as a bishop without a diocese and granted him the church of Saint Peter of Gumay in Sumpetar in the present-day Municipality of Dugi Rat. [1] The circumstances under which Stjepan lost his diocese between 1361 and 1362 remain unknown. [5] Since Stjepan was mentioned with Archbishop Branca as early as 1358, Slavko Kovačić considers him to have been the auxiliary bishop, who simultaneously administered the dioceses of Duvno and Makarska. [7]

In 1371, Stjepan was once again mentioned as the bishop of Duvno, this time as a witness in a document from the Benedictine monastery of Saint Chrysogonus in Zadar. [7]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Škegro 2002, p. 165.
  2. ↑ Škegro 2002, p. 167.
  3. ↑ Mandić 1936, p. 19.
  4. ↑ Škegro 2002, p. 128.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Škegro 2002, p. 166.
  6. ↑ Mandić 1936, p. 18.
  7. 1 2 Škegro 2002, pp. 165–166.

References

Books

  • Mandić, Dominik (1936). Duvanjska biskupija od XIV.–XVII. stoljeća[The Diocese of Duvno from 14th to 17th century] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Tisak nadbiskupske tiskare.
  • Škegro, Ante (2002). Na rubu opstanka: Duvanjska biskupija od utemeljenja do uključenja u Bosanski apostolski vikarijat[On the verge of existence: the Diocese of Duvno from its foundation till inclusion in the Vicarate of Bosnia] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Dom i svijet. ISBN   9536491850.
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