PULATI, Diocese of. - It is located in the interior of northern Albania, a suffragan of Scutari. From 877 to 1032 it was subject to the archdiocese of Dioclea. When this was destroyed, Antivari became the metropolitan see (1032 or 1034), of which P. was a suffragan until 1887, when it passed under Scutari.

From 1340 to 1520, indeed, there existed two dioceses of P. (Polata maior and minor). The bishops of this other one generally bore the title of Episcopi Sobrienses, from the village of Sosi, the seat of the Ordinary. By decree of 11 February 1636 the bishop of Sappa was charged with the interim administration of the diocese. At that time the Franciscans began their missionary work, especially in the districts of Gashi and Kranjice, which had passed to Islam under Turkish persecution. Given the small number of Catholics, P. was changed into an apostolic vicariate on 9 May 1667, but was elevated again on 16 September 1697 under the Franciscan Pietro Karagić to a diocese.

The present situation under a regime of persecution does not permit statistics to be given.

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BIBL.: MC. 1920, p. 72; J. Marcovic, Duhljanshobarska Metropolija, Zagreb 1902, pp. 39-41.

Nicola Kowalski

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