TREBIGNE (Tribunia, TREBINJE), DIOCESE of - In southern Herzegovina (Croatia). Its territory comprises 3,861 sq km with 25,126 faithful (1936). In 1890 it was entrusted to the administration of the bishop of Mostar. It has two deaneries and 10 parishes with 12 churches, 45 chapels and 13 secular priests. The religious women (School Sisters of St. Francis) have two houses with 11 sisters.

In the 10th century there existed the autonomous principality of Travunia (Tribunia) which, according to the chronicle of Dioclea (12th century), was part of Red (that is, southern) Croatia. Already in the 11th century the Ecclesia Tribunensis arose there, with the cathedral of St. Peter and its associated Chapter. The bishop generally resided in the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in Campo (Cicevò, 5 km south of T.). The tribulations of the diocese begin with the subjection of Travunia to the dissident Serbian State. Uros I drove Bishop Salvio from T. (1253). The fate of Catholics in Serbia at that time is well traced in the ancient manuscript Anonymi descriptio Europae orientalis a. 1308 (ed. O. Gorko, Krakow 1916): « Schismatici perfidi... nimium persequuntur dictos catholicos et permaxime ecclesias Latinorum destruunt, dissipant et invadunt praelatos et captivant et plura inexquisita mala faciunt ». The persecutions continue during the Turkish regime (1482-1878), when Catholics are ever seen as followers of the Pope, enemy of Islam and organizer of Christian resistance. The schismatic Serbian Church, like the Greek one (the patriarchate of Pec is restored by the Turkish authority in 1557), by virtue of agreements with Turkey, enjoys a privileged position, which is widely exploited: monasteries are founded in the Croatian regions and, sometimes even with Turkish complicity, a great number of Catholics are forced to pass over to the schism (16th and 17th centuries). At that time there reigns a notable scarcity of priests, and the bishop of T. resides permanently on the territory of the Republic of Ragusa, on the island of Mrkanj. Later it is administered by the bishops of Ragusa, and from 1890 by those of Mostar-Duvno (v.).

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BIBL.: D. Farlati, Hlyricum Sacrum, VI, Venice 1800, pp. 286-318; A. Theiner, Vetere monumenta Slavorum meridionalum, I, Rome 1863; Codex diplomaticus Regni Croatiae et Slavoniae, edited by T. Smolnilas, vols. II-XVI, Zagreb 1904-39, see indexes; S. Draganović, Massenübertritte von Katholiken zur Orthodoxie im Kroat. Sprachgebiet während der Türkenherrschaft, in Orient. Christ. periodica, 3 (1937), pp. 181-232; Croazia Sacra, edited by S. Draganović, ibid. 1943, pp. 221-24.

Stefano Draganović

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