Vid Hvaranin
# Vid Hvaranin

Vid of Hvar (Croatian: Vid Hvaranin; Latin: Vitus de Ruschis; died c. 1507) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Duvno from 1489 to 1507.

Of noble origin, Vid was a vicar general for Lovro, the bishop of Hvar. The new bishop of Hvar Jeronim Dieda, who succeeded Lovro in 1846, made him a canon. Pope Innocent VIII appointed Vid the bishop of Duvno on 2 October 1489. At the time of his appointment, the Ottomans have completely occupied the territory of the Diocese of Duvno. Because of this, the Pope allowed Vid to be consecrated by any Catholic bishop.

Dominik Mandić wrote that Vid gained from the Ottomans the full liberty to confess the Catholic religion on the territory of the Diocese of Duvno and that he was active among the local populace as well. However, Škegro refuted this claim, writing that such an act would contradict the Ottoman conquering policies and that from 1490 to 1495 Vid was an emissary and a vicar general of the archbishop of Split Bartolomeo Averoldi and lived in Split. Friar Karlo Jurišić agrees with Škegro and states that Vid administered the diocese through his vicars from the Franciscan Province of Bosnia.

Since 1491, Vid held the title of "the bishop of Duvno and all of Hum" and exercised his jurisdiction from Cetina in the west to Popovo Polje in the east. Besides being the bishop of Dunvo, Vid also administered the Diocese of Makarska and parts of the Diocese of Ston occupied by the Ottomans. In 1493, as a general vicar of the Archdiocese of Split, Vid passed a judgment regarding the election of a parish priest in Knin. Archbishop Averoldi, who was originally from Italy, came into conflict with another of his vicar generals, Jerolim Cipik, supported by the Split clergy. Cipik was eventually released from his duties, and Mandić suggests that since Vid isn't mentioned after 1495, and that in 1496 the archdiocese had appointed the new vicar general, Vid was probably released from his duties as well for siding with de Cipik. From a letter of Pope Julius II on the appointment of Vid's successor Tomás de Córdoba in 1507, it is evident that he died shortly before that time. Vid remained the last native bishop of Duvno until 1551. In that period, the Diocese of Duvno only had titular bishops.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Mandić 1936, p. 30.
* 1 2 3 4 Škegro 2002, p. 179.
* ↑ Mandić 1936, pp. 30–31.
* ↑ Mandić 1936, p. 32.
* ↑ Škegro 2002, p. 119.
* ↑ Škegro 2002, p. 180.
