Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaca

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Diocese of Jaca

Dioecesis Iacensis

Diócesis de Jaca
Pamplona y Tudela
Statistics
Area5,896 km2 (2,276 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2006)
46,800
46,400 (99.1%)
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established1063
CathedralCathedral of St Peter in Jaca
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopJulián Ruiz Martorell
Metropolitan ArchbishopFrancisco Pérez González
Website
diocesisdejaca.org

The Diocese of Jaca (

Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela.[1][2]

The territory of the Diocese of Jaca was originally administered by the

Pedro I of Aragon retook the city from the Moors
in November 1096. The Diocese of Jaca was created in 1572, carved out of the diocese of Huesca.

Jaca cathedral is dedicated to [Saint Peter]. Consecrated in the late 11th century and altered in the 15th–18th centuries, it is Romanesque in its architectural style. The church of San Adrián de Sasabe, in Sasabe
(also in Huesca province) was an earlier diocesan cathedral.

A religious and civil festival is held on the first Friday of May, locally referred to as "Primer Viernes de Mayo", in memory of a victory said to have been won over the Moors in the 8th century by Count Aznar aided by the women of Jaca. It is celebrated with a solemn procession in which the entire cathedral chapter takes part.

There are many

King of Sobrarbe
in the 8th century.

History

Jaca was once the capital of the

Sextus and Caesar
's generals.

Itinerant bishops of Aragon (713–1063)

Ecclesiastically, Jaca originally belonged to the

Diocese of Huesca
. When in 713 the town of Huesca was seized by the Moors, the bishop fled and the diocese was directed from Aragon by itinerant bishops, sometimes called bishops of Aragon, sometimes bishops of Huesca or Jaca, who lived either at Jaca or in the neighbouring monasteries of San Juan de la Peña, San Pedro de Siresa and San Adrián de Sasabe.

Among the itinerant bishops of Aragon were:

  • c. 920: Iñigo
  • c. 922: Ferriolus
  • 933–947: Fortuño
  • 971–978: Aureolus
  • c. 981: Atón
  • 1011–1036: Mancius
  • 1036–1057: García
  • 1058–1075: Sancho

Jaca as seat of the bishops of Huesca (1063–1096)

A

Diocese of Lérida. Jaca was then made the permanent seat of the diocese
.

At the same time Sancho was appointed Bishop of Huesca (1058–1075) and hastened to request the

Sancho Ramirez of Aragon (1063–1094) had won back from the Moors the city of Barbastro, and had granted it to the Bishop of Roda. García Ramírez, the new Bishop of Huesca (1076–1086) and brother of the king, regarded this as an infringement of the rights of jurisdiction granted the Bishop of Jaca by the Council of Jaca. He therefore renewed his petition to the new pope (Gregory VII
) to have the decisions of the council confirmed, which request the pope granted (cf. Jaffé, "Reg. Pont. Roman", I, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1885, n. 5098). As, however, Bishop Raimundo of Roda also obtained the confirmation of all his privileges from Gregory, a violent dispute arose between the Bishops of Huesca and Roda as to jurisdiction over the churches of Barbastro, Bielsa, Gistao and Alquezar, which in 1080 was decided by the king in favour of the Bishop of Roda.

The episcopal see returns to Huesca (1096–1572)

In November 1096, King

Rule of St. Augustine
, but in 1270 both this chapter and that of Huesca were secularized.

Diocese of Jaca (1572 to the present)

Jaca was again erected into a separate diocese and was made suffragan to the

Zaragoza by a Bull of Pope Pius V (July 18, 1571), which decision was carried into effect on February 26, 1572. The first bishop was Pedro del Frago
.

According to the diocesan statistics of 1907 Jaca possessed 73,659 inhabitants, 151

oratories, 236 secular priests, 30 regulars and 54 sisters. The religious institutes
in the diocese are:

  • Augustinian Hermits, one monastery and novitiate
    ;
  • Piarists, 2 houses for the training of boys;
  • Benedictine
    nuns, 1 convent and 18 professed sisters in the city of Jaca;
  • Sisters of Mercy of St. Anna, who have charge of the hospital at Jaca;
  • Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary, 1 house at Jaca; sisters of Mercy of
    St. Vincent de Paul
    , with a school at Jaca;
  • Little Sisters of the Aged Poor, with a home for the aged in a suburb of Jaca.

Bishops of Jaca (1572 to the present)

  1. 1572–1577: Pedro del Frago
  2. 1578–1583: Gaspar Juan de la Figuera
  3. 1584–1592: Pedro de Aragón
  4. 1592–1594: Diego de Monreal
  5. 1594–1606: Malaquías de Aso
  6. 1607–1614: Tomás Cortés de Sangüesa
  7. 1614–1615: Diego Ordóñez
  8. 1615–1616: Pedro Fernández Zorrilla
  9. 1616–1617: Felipe Guimerán
  10. 1617–1622:
    Luis Díez Aux de Armendáriz
  11. 1623–1626: Juan Estelrich
  12. 1627: José Palafox Palafox
  13. 1628–1631: Álvaro de Mendoza (bishop)[3]
  14. 1631–1635: Vicente Domec
  15. 1635–1646: Mauro de Villarroel
  16. 1647–1648: Juan Domingo Briz de Trujillo
  17. 1649–1652: Jerónimo de Ipenza
  18. 1655–1671: Bartolomé de Fontcalda
  19. 1671–1673: Andrés Aznar Navés[4]
  20. 1673–1674: José de Santolaria
  21. 1677–1683: Bernardo Mateo Sánchez de Castellar
  22. 1683–1704: Miguel de Frías Espintel
  23. 1705–1717: Mateo Foncillos Mozárabe
  24. 1717–1720: Francisco Polanco
  25. 1721–1727: Miguel Estela
  26. 1728: Antonio Sarmiento
  27. 1728–1733: Pedro Espinosa de los Monteros
  28. 1734–1738: Ramón Nogués
  29. 1739–1750: Juan Domingo Manzano Carvajal
  30. 1751–1755: Esteban Vilanova Colomer
  31. 1756–1776: Pascual López Estaún
  32. 1777–1779: Andrés Pérez Bermúdez
  33. 1780–1784: Julián Gascueña
  34. 1785–1802:
    José Antonio López Gil
  35. 1803–1814: Lorenzo Algüero Ribera
  36. 1815–1822: Cristóbal Pérez Viala
  37. 1824–1828: Leonardo Santander Villavicencio
  38. 1829–1831: Pedro Rodríguez Miranda
  39. 1832–1847: Manuel María Gómez de las Rivas
  40. 1848–1851: Miguel García Cuesta
  41. 1852–1856: Juan José Biec Belio
  42. 1857–1870: Pedro Lucas Asensio Poves
  43. 1874–1890: Ramón Fernández Lafita
  44. 1891–1899: José López Mendoza y García
  45. 1900–1904: Francisco Javier Valdés Noriega
  46. 1904–1913: Antolín López Peláez
  47. 1913–1920: Manuel de Castro Alonso
  48. 1920–1925: Francisco Frutos Valiente
  49. 1926–1943: Juan Villar Sanz
  50. 1946–1950: José Bueno y Monreal
  51. 1950–1978: Ángel Hidalgo Ibáñez
  52. 1978–1983:
    Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá
  53. 1984–1989: Rosendo Álvarez Gastón
  54. 1990–2001: José María Conget Arizaleta
    • 2001–2003:
      Juan José Omella Omella
      (Apostolic Administrator)
  55. 2003–2009: Jesús Sanz Montes
  56. 2010–: Julián Ruiz Martorell

Notes

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Huesca". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Jaca". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Jaca", Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  2. ^ "Diocese of Jaca", GCatholic.org. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  3. ^ "Bishop Alvaro Mendoza, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 24, 2016
  4. ^ Rafael Lazcano, Episcopologio agustiniano. Agustiniana. Guadarrama (Madrid) 2014, vol. I, 440-445

External links

See also

  • List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of Spain
    .

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