Roman Catholic Diocese of Plasencia

Diocese of Plasencia Dioecesis Placentina in Hispania Diócesis de Plasencia
Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	1189
Cathedral	New Gothic Cathedral of St. Mary in Plasencia
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop elect	Ernesto Jesús Brontóns Tena
Metropolitan Archbishop	Celso Morga Iruzubieta
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Plasencia (

From 1312 to 1326 the bishop Sancho Blázquez Dávila imported the ceremonial and the bureaucratic-administrative model of the royal court into his episcopal household.[3]

Episcopal ordinaries

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Suffragan Bishops of Plasencia

• Bricio (1190–1212)
• Domingo (1212–1232)
• Adán (1234–1262)
• Simón (1263–1268)
• Pedro Fernández (1269–1271), previously Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1241–1265)
• Pedro El Maestro (1272–1284)
• Juan Alfonso (1285–1290)
• Diego (1290–1295)
• Domingo (1295–1326)
• Juan (1329.08.01 – 1330.10.26)
• Jimeno (1330.10.26 – 1332)
• Benito (1332–1343)
• Sancho (1344.05.12 – 1355.05.12)
• Nicolás (1356.05.16 – 1362)
• Juan Guerra (1364.07.07 – 1372)
• Pedro de Manso (1372.09.03 – 1373)
• Martín (1373 – 1375.10.05)
• Pedro Martínez (1375.10.05 – death 1401.10.18)
• Vicente Arias Balboa (1403.07.30 – death 1414.07.29)
• Gonzalo de Stuñiga o Zúñiga (1415.12.18 – 1422), next Bishop of Jaén (Spain) (1422 – death 1456)
• Diego Badán,
  Badajoz (Spain) (1409.09.11 – 1415.12.18), Bishop of Cartagena
  (Spain) (1415.12.18 – 1422.10.02)
• Gonzalo de Santa María (1423.07.02 – 1446), previously Bishop of
  Sigüenza
  (Spain) (1446 – death 1448.12.12)
• Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals
  (1469.01.11 – 1469.12.06)
• Rodrigo de Ávila (29 Jan 1470 – Feb 1492 Died)
• Archbishop of Sevilla)^[5]
  • Titular Bishop of Baia
    (1502.04.04 – ?)
• Gómez de Toledo Solís (22 Dec 1508 – death 1521)
• Sigüenza
  (Spain) (1513.06.27 – 1519)

• Gutierre Vargas de Carvajal
  (25 May 1524 – death 27 April 1559)
  • Marocco
    (1539.09.09 – ?)
• Pedro Ponce de Léon (26 Jan 1560 – death 17 Jan 1573), previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain) (1550.06.27 – 1560.01.26)
• Order of Preachers (O.P.) (4 June 1574 – 13 June 1578), next Bishop of Córdoba (1578.06.13 – death 1581.06.05); previously Bishop of Tortosa
  (Spain) (1560.07.17 – 1574.06.04)
• Osma
  (Spain) (1567.03.03 – 1578.06.13)
• Portalegre (Portugal
  ) (1560.04.05 – 1581.09.11)
• Calahorra y La Calzada
  (Spain) (1577.09.11 – 1587.08.07)
• Orense
  (Spain) (1587.07.27 – 1594.12.05)
• Osma
  (Spain) (1602.11.15 – 1610.06.21)
• Sigüenza
  (Spain) (1615.07.20 – 1622.07.11)
  • Titular Bishop of Ascalon
    (1622.10.26 – ?)
• Málaga
  (Spain) (1622.11.14 – 1627.01.27)
• Pamplona (Spain) (1623.03.06 – 1625.02.19), Bishop of Córdoba
  (Spain) (1625.02.19 – 1630.12.02)
• Cádiz
  (Spain) (1623.03.20 – 1633.07.18)
• Tui (Spain) (1635.10.01 – 1638.03.22), Bishop of Ávila
  (Spain) (1638.03.22 – 1640.10.08)
• Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval (11 Dec 1652 – death 1655)
• Francisco Guerra (bishop), O.F.M. (3 April 1656 – death 3 Dec 1657)
• Orihuela
  (Spain) (1651.10.28 – 1658.09.02)
• Osma
  (Spain) (1662.12.04 – 1664.01.28)
• Oviedo
  (Spain) (1661 – 1665.02.23)
• Oviedo
  (Spain) (1668.01.30 – 1668.09.17)
• Palermo
  (Sicily, Italy) (1669.02.04 – 1677.04.26)
• Juan Álvarez Osorio (1679.11 – death? 1679 not possessed), previously Bishop of León (Spain) (1672 – 1679.11)
• Badajoz
  (Spain) (1677.11.08 – 1681.03.17)
• José Jiménez de Samaniego, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (24 May 1683 – death 14 June 1692)
• Juan de Villacé y Vozmediano (13 April 1693 – death 9 April 1694)
• Mercedarians (O. de M.) (24 Jan 1695 – death 9 Dec 1698), previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo
  (Spain) (1688 – 1695.01.24)
• Bartolomé de Ocampo y Mata (1 June 1699 – death 22 Sep 1703), previously Bishop of Segovia (Spain) (1694 – 1699.06.01)
• José Gregorio de Rojas y Velázquez (7 April 1704 – death 24 Nov 1709), previously Bishop of León (Spain) (1694 – 1704.04.07)
• Bartolomé Cernuda Rico y Piñeros (22 May 1713 – death April 1715)
• Francisco Eustaquio Perea Porras (23 Sep 1715 – 3 July 1720), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Granada (Spain) (1720.07.03 – death 1723.09)
• Juan Montalbán Gómez,
  Order of Preachers (O.P.) (16 Sep 1720 – death 12 Nov 1720), previously Bishop of Guadix
  (Spain) (1706.09.13 – 1720.09.16)
• Francisco Laso de la Vega Córdova, O.P. (28 May 1721 – death 14 July 1738) previously Bishop of Ceuta (Spain) (1716.10.05 – 1721.05.28)
• Pedro Manuel Dávila y Cárdenas (19 Dec 1738 – death 25 June 1742), previously Bishop of
  Islas Canarias
  (Canaries, insular Spain) (1731.08.06 – 1738.12.19)
• Plácido Bailés (Baylés) y Padilla, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (26 Nov 1742 – death 22 Jan 1747), previously Bishop of Huesca (Spain) (1738.03.03 – 1742.11.26)
• Francisco Antonio Bustamante Jiménez (31 July 1747 – death 27 July 1749)
• José Ignacio Rodríguez Cornejo (23 Feb 1750 – death Dec 1755)
• Pedro Gómez de la Torre (24 May 1756 – death 3 August 1759)
• Juan Francisco Manrique Lara (21 April 1760 – death 18 Jan 1765)
• Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón (5 June 1765 – 14 April 1766), next Metropolitan Archbishop of México )
• José González Laso Santos de San Pedro (21 July 1766 – death 1803)
• Lorenzo Igual de Soria (16 May 1803 – death 14 Sep 1814)
• Antonio Carrillo Mayoral (10 July 1815 – death 19 March 1826)
• Cipriano Sánchez Varela (3 July 1826 – death 13 March 1848)
• Martino Piña y Giménez (5 Sep 1851 – death 25 Nov 1851)
• José Ávila Lamas (27 Sep 1852 – 25 Sep 1857), next Bishop of Orense)
• Bernardo Conde y Corral,
  Norbertines (O. Praem.) (21 Dec 1857 – 16 March 1863), next Bishop of Zamora
  )
• Gregoria María López y Zaragoza (21 Dec 1863 – death 3 May 1869)
• Pedro Casas y Souto (23 Sep 1875 – death 26 July 1906)
• Francisco Jarrín y Moro (6 Dec 1906 – death 3 Nov 1912)
• Manuel Torres y Torres (18 July 1913 – death 4 July 1914)
• Ángel Regueras y López (26 May 1915 – 26 Oct 1923), next Bishop of Salamanca)
• Justo Rivas Fernández (18 Dec 1924 – death 16 July 1930)
• Feliciano Rocha Pizarro (28 Jan 1935 – death 16 August 1945)
• Juan Pedro Zarranz y Pueyo (18 Feb 1946 – death 14 Nov 1973)
• Antonio Vilaplana Molina (17 Sep 1976 – 9 Feb 1987), next Bishop of León)
• Santiago Martínez Acebes (5 Jan 1988 – 30 Oct 1992), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Burgos)
• Carlos López Hernández (15 Mar 1994 – 9 Jan 2003), next Bishop of Salamanca)
• Amadeo Rodríguez Magro (3 Jul 2003 – 9 Apr 2016), next Bishop of Jaén)
• José Luis Retana Gozalo (9 Mar 2017 – 15 Nov 2021), next Bishop of Salamanca and Ciudad Rodrigo)
• Ernesto Jesús Brontóns Tena (16 Jul 2022 – present)

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Spain, Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar
• Roman Catholicism in Spain
• History of Plasencia

References