Roman Catholic Diocese of Knin

Its see was originally located in the Romanesque church of Saint Mary in the royal village of Biskupija near Knin.

The construction of a new cathedral was initiated in 1203, on the basis of a previous 10th-century royal monastery in Kapitul, and was consecrated during the tenure of Bishop Nicholas (1270-1272).

A history of the successive bishops, from Mark in 1050 to Joseph in 1755, is given in Daniele Farlati's Illyricum sacrum, IV (Venice, 1775).

The bishops who held the title no longer resided in Knin after it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1522.

[2] In 1828 Pope Leo XII erected the ecclesiastical province of Dalmatia in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, in the papal bull Locum Beati Petri,[3] through which he suppressed the diocese and transferred its territory to the Diocese of Šibenik.