Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Pietro Gozze | |
Bishop of Ston | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Ston |
Term: | 1551–1564 |
Predecessor: | Tommaso Cervino |
Successor: | Boniface of Ragusa |
Birth Date: | 1493 |
Birth Place: | Dubrovnik, Croatia |
Death Date: | 1564 |
Death Place: | Ston, Croatia |
Pietro Gozze or Petar Gučetić (1493–1564),[1] called Doctor Illyricus,[2] was a Ragusan Catholic prelate who served as the bishop of Ston (1551–1564).[3] [4] [5]
Gozze was born in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the republic of Ragusa in 1493. The term Illyricus indicates that he was a Croat.[1] 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.[2] On 25 February 1551, he was appointed by Pope Julius III to the diocese of Ston. He served until his death in 1564.