Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix
Diocese of Guadix Dioecesis Guadicensis Diócesis de Guadix | |
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Roman Catholic | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 1st Century |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation in Guadix |
Co-cathedral | Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Baza |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Francisco Jesús Orozco Mengíbar |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández |
Map | |
Website | |
Website of the Diocese |
The Diocese of Guadix (
The diocese also has an (also Marian)
The Seminary of St. Torquatus was founded by Bishop Juan José Fonseca in 1595. King Charles IV of Spain founded a hospice in 1803, and the ancient Jesuit college had become a hospital before the early 20th century.[3]
Statistics
The modern diocese of Guadix comprises the greater part of the Province of Granada and a portion of the Province of Almería. As per 2014, it pastorally served 102,000 Catholics (97.3% of 104,871 total) on 5,677 km2 in 74 parishes and 67 missions with 58 priests (55 diocesan, 3 religious), 114 lay religious (8 brothers, 106 sisters) and 4 seminarians.[4]
Bishopric of Acci
The first bishopric was established in 47 AD. The legend of the
Liliolus attended the Third
In 741 it was suppressed, due to the Moorish conquest of Andalusia.[4]
In the
The
Titular see of Acci
By right of postliminium, the apostolic rank possessed by the see of Acci previous to the Islamic invasion is attributed to that of Guadix.[3] The Annuario Pontificio gives the date of foundation of the diocese of Guadix as 1st century AD.[6] It also lists the ancient see of Acci as a titular see (one that no longer has a diocesan bishop), thus distinguishing it from the bishopric of Guadix, so there are two parallel titles and lists of incumbents.[7]
Since the Ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as Latin
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- Joseph Phan Văn Hoa (1976.03.30 – death 1987.10.06) as Quy Nhon (Vietnam) (1976.03.30 – 1987.10.06)
- Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Riga(Latvia) (1987.11.23 – 1993.02.27)
- Heinrich Fasching (1993.05.24 – death 2014.06.01), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Sankt Pölten (Austria) (1993.05.24 – retired 2004.10.07), then on emeritate
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Bishopric of Guadix
An effective diocese was not restored until the time of the Catholic sovereigns. Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza, Archbishop of Toledo, erected the new see of Guadix on 21 May 1492, in virtue of the Apostolic commission of
In 1957 it lost territory to the
Bishops of Guadix
- Pedro (?–1401)
- Nicolás, Friars Minor(O.F.M.) (1401–1417)
- Pedro (1417–1434)
- Fernando de Atienza, O.F.M. (19 Feb 1434 – 1472 Died)
- Pedro (1475.06.03 – 1485.04.01)
- García de Quijada, O.F.M. (21 May 1490 – ?1522 Died)
- Osma(Spain) (1532.03.13 – death 1537.02.12)
- Cardinal-Priestwith no Title assigned (1544.12.19 – death 1545.11.02)
- Antonio Guevara Noroña, O.F.M. (22 Jan 1528 – 11 April 1537), next Bishop of Mondoñedo) (Spain) (1537.04.11 – death 1545.04.03)
- Antonio del Aguila Vela y Paz (11 April 1537 – 9 April 1546), next Bishop of Zamora (Spain) (1546.04.09 – 1560)
- Martín Pérez de Ayala (16 May 1548 – 17 July 1560), next Bishop of Segovia (1560.07.17 – 1564.09.06), Metropolitan Archbishop of Valencia (southern Spain) (1564.09.06 – 1566.08.05)
- Melchor Alvarez de Vozmediano (4 Sep 1560 – retired 1570), died 1597
- Military Order of Saint James the Sword(O.S.) (15 Dec 1574 – death 1581), Metropolitan Archbishop of Valencia (Spain) (1564.09.06 – 1566.08.05)
- Juan Alonso Moscoso (6 July 1582 – 30 August 1593), next Bishop of Bishop of León (Spain) (1593.08.30 – 1603.05.09), Bishop of Málaga (Spain) (1603.05.09 – death 1614.08.21)
- Juan Fonseca (15 Nov 1593 – death 16 Nov 1604), founded the Seminary of St. Torquatus[3]
- Agrigento (Sicily, Italy) (1594.12.02 – 1606.01.16)
- Islas Canarias (Canary Islands, Spain) (1610.04.26 – 1611.10.10)
- Jerónimo Herrera Salazar (2 Oct 1617 – death 30 July 1619)
- Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (6 April 1620 – 12 Feb 1624), next Bishop of Zamora(Spain) (1624.04.27 – death 1624.08.30)
- Juan Arauz Díaz, O.F.M. (7 Oct 1624 – death 16 August 1635)
- Juan Dionisio Fernández Portocarrero (28 Jan 1636 – 16 July 1640), next Bishop of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain) (1640.07.16 – death 1641.11.27)
- Coria(Spain) (1643.07.13 – death 1643.10.17)
- Perpignan–Elne(southern France) (1638.06.21 – 1643.08.03)
- Bernardino Rodríguez de Arriaga, Augustinians (O.S.A.) (7 Dec 1648 – death 4 Dec 1651)
- Segorbe(Spain) (1639.05.30 – 1652.04.29)
- ? José de Láyñez y Gutiérrez, O.S.A. (17 March 1653 – death 14 Oct 1667)
- ? Diego de Silva y Pacheco, O.S.B. (28 Feb 1668 – 27 May 1675 Appointed, Bishop of Astorga)
- ? Clemente Alvarez López, Dominican Order (O.P.) (15 July 1675 – 17 June 1688 Died)
- ? Juan de Villacé y Vozmediano (27 Sep 1688 – 13 April 1693 Appointed, Bishop of Plasencia)
- Pedro de Palacios y Tenorio, O.P. (8 June 1693 – ?death 1700 ? 31 July 1702 Resigned)
- Juan Feyjóo González de Villalobos, Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel(Carmelites) (1692–1698)
- Juan Montalbán Gómez, O.P. (13 Sep 1706 – 16 Sep 1720), next Bishop of Plasencia (Spain) (1720.09.16 – death 1720.11.12)
- Felipe de los Tueros Huerta (3 Feb 1721 – 20 Jan 1734), next Archbishop of Granada (Spain) (1734.01.20 – death 1751.09.12)
- Francisco Salgado Quirago (24 March 1734 – death April 1744)
- Andrés Licht Barrera (25 Jan 1745 – 17 Jan 1750 Resigned), died 1751
- Miguel (a S. Iosepho) Valejo Berlanga, Trinitarians (O.SS.T.) (19 Jan 1750 – death 17 May 1757)
- Francisco Alejandro Bocanegra Jivaja (19 Dec 1757 – 8 March 1773), next Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (1773.03.08 – death 1782.04.16)
- Bernardo Lorca Quiñones, Hieronymites (O.S.H.) (15 March 1773 – death 19 Jan 1793)
- Raimundo Melchor Magi Gómez, O. de M. (14 Oct 1797 – death 26 Sep 1803)
- Marcos Cabello y López, O.S.A. (20 August 1804 – death 6 Sep 1819)
- Juan José Cordón Leyva (3 May 1824 – death 3 April 1827)
- José Uraga Pérez (28 Jan 1828 – death 3 Sep 1840
- Cádiz(Andalusia, Spain) (1819.06.04 – 1824.12.20)
- Antonio Lao y Cuevas (7 Jan 1850 – death 14 July 1850), previously Bishop of Teruel(Spain) (1847.12.17 – 1850.05.14)
- Juan José Arbolí y Acaso (18 March 1852 – 22 Dec 1853), next Bishop of Cádiz (Spain) (1853.12.22 – death 1863.02.01)
- Mariano Martínez Robledo y Robledo (7 April 1854 – death 3 Feb 1855)
- Antonio Rafael Domínguez y Valdecañas (25 Sep 1857 – death 21 Dec 1865)
- Mariano Brezmes y Arredondo (25 June 1866 – 17 Sep 1875), next Bishop of Astorga (1875.09.17 – death 1885.11.11)
- Vicente Pontes y Cantelar, O.S.A. (17 Sep 1875 – 18 March 1893 Died)
- Maximiliano Fernández del Rincón y Soto Dávila (21 May 1894 – death 24 July 1907), previously Bishop of Apostolic Administrator of Albarracín(Spain) (1891.06.01 – 1894.05.21)
- Timoteo Hernández y Mulas (19 Dec 1907 – death 19 March 1921)
- Ángel Marquina y Corrales (6 Sep 1922 – 1 Jan 1928 Died), previously Bishop of Islas Canarias(Canaries, Spain) (1913.07.18 – 1922.09.06)
- Blessed Manuel Medina y Olmos (2 Oct 1928 – death 30 August 1936), previously Auxiliary Bishop of Granada(Andalusia, Spain) (1925.12.14 – 1928.10.02)
- Cardinal-Priest of S. Agostino(1946.02.22 – 1946.10.08)
- Rafael Alvarez Lara (10 June 1943 – 10 March 1965), next Bishop of Mallorca (Balearic Spain) (1965.03.10 – retired 1973.04.13); died 1996
- Gabino Díaz Merchán (23 July 1965 – 4 August 1969), next Archbishop of Oviedo (Spain) (1969.08.04 – retired 2002.01.07), President of Episcopal Conference of Spain (1981–1987)
- Málaga(Balearic Spain) (1993.03.26 – retired 2008.10.10); died 2015
- Coadjutor Bishop of Huelva(Spain) (1990.10.19 – 1993.10.27), succeeding as Bishop of Huelva (1993.10.27 – retired 2006.07.17); died 2019
- Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz (31 March 1992 – retired 3 December 2009); died 2011
- Ginés Ramón García Beltrán (3 December 2009 – 3 January 2018), appointed Bishop of Getafe
- Francisco Jesús Orozco Mengíbar (30 October 2018 – present)
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses in Spain, Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar
- Roman Catholicism in Spain
References
- [self-published]
- [self-published]
- ^ a b c d e f g Ramón Ruiz Amadó, "Guadix" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1914)
- ^ a b c d "Titular See of Acci, Spain".
- ISBN 978-1-11827399-9)
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 277
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013, p. 823
- ^ Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel, t. XI, Paris 1823, pp. 356–361
- ^ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 2, p. 162
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 3
- ^ "Diocese of Guadix, Spain".
Sources and external links
- Official website
- GCatholic - Acci, with Google satellite photo [self-published]
- GCatholic - Guadix, with Google map and satellite photo [self-published]
- Catholic Hierarchy [self-published]