CAPODISTRIA. - A small town a few km. from Trieste; in antiquity it was also designated by the name of Giustinopoli. According to certain suppositions, it was an episcopal see around the middle of the 6th century. The chronicler Andrea Dandolo (14th cent.) gives the names of two bishops for the middle of the 8th century, but he is a highly suspect source. It was Alessandro III who, at Venice in 1177, decided upon the erection of the bishopric, which comprised the territories subject to Venice in that region between Trieste and Cittanova; the bishopric was juridically constituted only on 5 July 1186; it lasted until 30 June 1828, when Leone XII united it aque principaliter with the see of Trieste, an union that was put into effect on 21 March 1830. It depended upon the patriarchate of Aquileia until 1751.
CAPODISTRIA
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“CAPODISTRIA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 419. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/capodistria.