Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult
The archdiocese has two suffragan sees: The diocese of Scutari (Shkodrë) was established circa 305.The bishops of Scutari were at first subject to the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Thessalonica (Thessaloniki, Greece), Primatial see of all Illyricum, but when Byzantine emperor Justinian I transferred the primacy, they became suffragans of the Archdiocese of Justiniana Prima.In the early Middle Ages Scutari was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dioclea (now Metropolitan of Bar, in Montenegro).The ancient diocese of Ulcinium (Ulcinj, Dulcigno), in the territory of Scutari, was, in 1571, occupied by the Ottoman Turks and ceased to exist.The first archbishop of the united diocese, Karl Pooten, native of Teveren near Geilenkirchen, Germany,[4] who had been Apostolic Administrator of Antivari (1834–1855), died at Scutari on 15 January 1886.