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After the formation of the Slav principality of Dioclia ( modern Montenegro ), the metropolitan see of Bar was created in 1089, and dioceses in northern Albania ( Shkodër, Ulcinj ) became its suffragans.

Starting in 1019, Albanian dioceses of the Byzantine rite were suffragans of the independent Archdiocese of Ohrid until Dyrrachion and Nicopolis, were re-established as metropolitan sees.

Thereafter, only the dioceses in inner Albania ( Elbasan, Krujë ) remained attached to Ohrid.

In the 13th century during the Venetian occupation, the Latin Archdiocese of Durrës was founded.