Roman Catholic Diocese of Oca

Oca (Latin Auca) is a former bishopric in the province of Burgos, Castile and León region (northern Spain), the predecessor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos, and presently a Latin titular see of the Catholic Church. Its Latin adjective is Aucen(sis).

Visigothic see

It was established at Oca, what is now

However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at

1. Asterius (floruit 589–597)
2. Amanungus (floruit 633–646)
3. Litorius (floruit 649–656)
4. Stercorius (floruit 675–688)
5. Constantine (floruit 693).

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :^[2]

1. Auxiliary Bishop of Burgos
   (Spain, cfr. supra history) (1942.03.12 – 1944.12.09)
2. Hernando Rojas Ramirez, Coadjutor bishop of Espinal (Colombia), 26 April 1972 – 12 December 1974; later succeeded as Bishop of Espinal (1974.12.12 – 1985.07.01), next Bishop of Neiva (Colombia) (1985.07.01 – 2001.01.19), died 2002
3. Schwerin
   (eastern Germany) (1987.11.23 – death 1992.03.26)
4. S. Roberto Bellarmino (2001.02.21 [2001.10.14] – 2013.03.13), President of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (2005.11.08 – 2011.11.08), elected Supreme Pontiff Pope Francis
   (2013.03.13 [2013.03.19] – ...)
5. Mieczysław Cisło (13 December 1997 – ...), as auxiliary bishop of
   Lublin (Poland
   ), no previous prelature.

Sources and external links

• Website of the (successor) archdiocese of Burgos (in Spanish)
• GCatholic - titular see of Auca (Oca), with Google satellite photo - data for all sections
• "Auca". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.^{[self-published source]}

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