Editing Butrint (section)

== Ecclesiastical history ==
=== Residential bishopric ===
[[File:Butrint-Basilica-20071001.jpg|thumb|293px|Remains of the Grand Basilica]]
In the early 6th century, Buthrotum became the seat of a bishopric and new construction included the [[The Butrint baptistry|Buthrotum baptistery]], one of the largest such paleochristian buildings of its type, and a [[basilica]]. The diocese of Buthrotum was initially a [[suffragan]] of the [[Metropolis of Nicopolis]], the metropolitan capital of [[Epirus Vetus]] and in the papal sway, but in the 9th and 10th centuries it is listed with the suffragans of [[Metropolis of Naupaktos|Naupaktos]], which succeeded ruined Nicopolis as provincial capital and metropolis of the new Byzantine [[theme (Byzantine district)|theme]] of [[Nicopolis (theme)|Nicopolis]],<ref>Heinrich Gelzer, [https://archive.org/stream/abhandlungenbay06klasgoog#page/n596/mode/1up ''Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum''], in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der [[Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]], 1901, p. 557, nº 564.</ref> bringing it in the sway of the Byzantine [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]]. After the 14th century, it was under the jurisdiction of the [[Metropolis of Ioannina]].
 
Two of its Byzantine (pre-Eastern Schism) bishops are mentioned in extant documents: 
* Stephanus signed the joint letter of the bishops of [[Epirus Vetus]] to Emperor [[Leo I the Thracian]] in the aftermath of the killing of Patriarch [[Proterius of Alexandria]] in 458
* Matthaeus signed the synodal letter of the bishops of the province to [[Pope Hormisdas]] in 516 concerning the ordination of Metropolitan John of Nicopolis.<ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;430</ref><ref>Michel Lequien, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_86weAemI-e4C ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''], Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 139-142</ref><ref>Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', [http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002716&mediaType=application/pdf vol. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709140633/http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002716&mediaType=application%2Fpdf |date=2019-07-09 }}, p.&nbsp;143</ref> It became a [[Latin Church]] see under Angevin and Venetian rule.

=== Latin residential bishopric ===
A Latin see was established circa 1250 under the Italian name ''Butrinto'', functioning under [[Capetian House of Anjou|Angevin]] and [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] rule, but suppressed circa 1400. The 6th-century [[basilica]] was rebuilt by king [[Charles I of Naples]] in 1267.
[[File:ALB0074-2012r.jpg|300px|thumb|Butrint theatre on the reverse of a 2012 2000 [[Albanian Lek|Lekë]] banknote]]
;Known Latin bishops
* Nicola, [[Dominican Order|O.P.]] (? – 1311.02.15)
* Nicola, O.P. (1311.05.23 – ?)
* Nicola da Offida, [[Friars Minor|O.F.M.]] (? – 1349.06.15)
* Francesco (? – ?)
* Arnaldo Simone (? – 1355.02.13)
* Giacomo, O.P. (1356.10.12 – ?)
* Lazzarino, O.F.M. (1366.02.09 – ?)

=== Catholic titular see ===
Buthrotum is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a Latin titular see <ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 855</ref> since the diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as [[titular bishopric]] of Buthrotum (Latin) / Butrinto (Curiate Italian) / Butrint (Albanian).

Following titular bishops have been nominated:
* Louis-Bertrand Tirilly, [[Picpus Fathers|SS.CC.]] (1953.11.16 – 1966.06.21) as last [[Apostolic Vicar]] of [[Apostolic Vicariate of Marquesas Islands|Marquesas Islands]] 
* George Frendo (7. 7. 2006 – 17. 11. 2016), [[Dominican Order|O.P.]], [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës|Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës]] ([[Albania]]) (7. 7. 2006 – 17. 11. 2016), also Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Albania (2016.05.05 – ...)
* Friar Giovanni Salonia, [[Capuchin Franciscans|O.F.M. Cap.]], (10. 2. 2017 – resigned 27. 4. 2017) as Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo|Archdiocese of Palermo]]
* Zdeněk Wasserbauer (* 16. 6. 1965), Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague]], since 19. 5. 2018