CAPODISTRIA [KOPER]. - A small town a few km. from Trieste; in antiquity it was also designated by the name of Giustinopoli. According to some suppositions it would have been an episcopal see around the middle of the 6th century. The chronicler Andrea Dandolo (14th century) records the name of two bishops for the middle of the 8th century, but he is a very suspect source. It was Alexander III who at Venice, in 1177, decided on 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 it was united by Leo XII aque principaliter with the see of Trieste, a union that was made effective on 21 March 1830. It depended on the patriarchate of Aquileia until 1751.

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BIBL.: Ughelli, V, p. 381 ff.; Fr. Babudri, Cronologia dei vescovi di Capodistria, in Archeografo triestino, 33 (1909), p. 173 ff.; Lanzoni, II, pp. 80-65; P. F. Kehr, Italia Pontificia, VII, II, Berlin 1930, pp. 215-25; P. Paschini, Storia del Friuli, Udine 1934; L. Jadin, s. v. in DHG, XI (1949), coll. 878-86.

Pio Paschini

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Capodistria [Koper]

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