Pietro Gozze or Petar Gučetić (1493–1564),John Van Antwerp Fine Jr., When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods (University of Michigan Press, 2010), p. 259. called Doctor Illyricus, was a Ragusan Catholic prelate who served as the bishop of Ston (1551–1564).Catholic-hierarchy.org: "Bishop Pietro de Gozzo, O.P." retrieved February 9, 2016"Diocese of Stagno (Ston)(Sagona)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Titular Episcopal See of Ston" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
Gozze was born in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the republic of Ragusa in 1493. The term Illyricus indicates that he was a Croat. He was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. Before he became a bishop, he held professorships at the University of Paris and the University of Louvain. On 25 February 1551, he was appointed by Pope Julius III to the diocese of Ston. He served until his death in 1564.
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