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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz

October 27, 2023

The Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz (Latin: Archidioecesis Emeritensis Augustanus–Pacensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in Spain, created in 1255. Until 1994, it was known as the Diocese of Badajoz.[3][4]

Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz

Archidioecesis Emeritensis Augustanus–Pacensis

Archidiócesis de Mérida–Badajoz
Location
CountrySpain
Ecclesiastical provinceMérida–Badajoz
Statistics
Area17,405 km2 (6,720 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2004)
585,290
581,414 (99.3%)
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established1255 (As Diocese of Badajoz)
28 July 1994 (As Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz)
CathedralCathedral of St John the Baptist in Badajoz
Co-cathedralCo-Cathedral of Saint Mary Major, Mérida
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Metropolitan ArchbishopCelso Morga Iruzubieta (formerly, Coadjutor Archbishop until Thursday, May 21, 2015)[1][2]
SuffragansDiocese of Coria-Cáceres
Diocese of Plasencia
Bishops emeritusSantiago García Aracil Archbishop Emeritus (retired in 2015)
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese
Co-cathedral of Saint Mary Major of Mérida

History edit

The Diocese or Archdiocese of Mérida (dioecesis Emeritensis) was a Catholic and Arian see centred on the Spanish city of Mérida during the periods of Roman and Visigothic rule. Mérida was also the provincial capital of Lusitania.

The see prospered in the late 5th century under Zeno, a Greek, who was offered greater authority in order to defend the province from Suevic raids. At about that time the diocese fell under the control of the Visigoths and it remained a Visigothic see until the Moorish conquest of 711. Throughout that period, however, it only ever had two Gothic bishops: Masona and his successor Renovatus in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. In the mid-sixth century the see became the richest in Spain through the private wealth of bishops Paul and Fidelis, Greek uncle and nephew. Under these four, the city was ruled de facto by the bishops independent of the central government, a situation which led to conflict between the Arian king Leovigild and his bishop, Sunna.

The bishopric of Badajoz was erected in 1225, shortly after it was reconquered from the Moors by King Alfonso IX of León. Its first bishop was Don Pedro Perez, appointed by Alfonso X, the Wise. The diocese was suffragan to the archdiocese of Seville, and was bounded on the north by the diocese of Coria, diocese of Plasencia, and diocese of Toledo, on the east by Toledo, the diocese of Ciudad Real, and the diocese of Córdoba, on the south by the archdiocese of Seville, and on the west by Portugal.[5]

On July 28, 1994, Pope John Paul II established the Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz, making the Church of Saint John Baptist his metropolitan cathedral.[6]

Suffragan dioceses edit

Ordinaries edit

Diocese of Badajoz edit

Erected: 1255

Bishops before 1500 edit

. . .
  • Bernardo (13 Jun 1300 Appointed – )
. . .
  • Juan García Palomeque (24 Oct 1354 – 4 Mar 1373 Appointed, Bishop of Osma)
. . .
. . .

1500s edit

1600s edit

1700s edit

  • Alfonso Rozado (19 Jul 1706 – 21 Dec 1706 Died)
  • Francisco Valero y Losa (7 Nov 1707 – 18 Mar 1715 Confirmed, Archbishop of Toledo)
  • Pedro Francisco Levanto Vivaldo (8 Jul 1715 – 2 Feb 1729 Died)
  • Amador Merino y Malaguillas (8 Feb 1730 – 29 Jan 1755 Died)
  • Manuel Pérez Minayo y Zumeda (21 Jul 1755 – 28 Nov 1779 Died)
  • Santiago Palmero Escada (11 Dec 1780 – 10 Dec 1781 Died)
  • Alonso de Solís Marroquín y Gragera, O.S. (17 Feb 1783 – 8 Feb 1797 Died)
  • Gabriel Álvarez de Faria y Sánchez Zarzosa (18 Dec 1797 – 11 Apr 1802 Died)

1800s edit

  • Mateo Delgado y Moreno (9 Aug 1802 – 16 Feb 1841 Died)
  • Francisco Javier Rodríguez y Obregón (17 Dec 1847 – 4 Jan 1853 Died)
  • Manuel Garcia Gil, O.P. (22 Dec 1853 – 23 Dec 1858 Appointed, Archbishop of Zaragoza)
  • Diego Mariano Alguacil y Rodríguez (23 Dec 1858 – 23 Dec 1861 Confirmed, Bishop of Vitoria)
  • Pantaleón Monserrat y Navarro (7 Apr 1862 – 1 Oct 1863 Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona)
  • Joaquín Hernández y Herrero (21 Dec 1863 – 25 Sep 1865 Confirmed, Bishop of Segorbe)
  • Fernando Ramírez y Vázquez (25 Sep 1865 – 14 Nov 1890 Died)
  • Francisco Sáenz de Urturi y Crespo, O.F.M. (1 Jun 1891 – 21 May 1894 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba)
  • Ramón Torrijos y Gómez (21 May 1894 – 16 Jan 1903 Died)

1900s edit

  • José Hevía y Campomanes, O.P. (25 Jun 1903 – 2 May 1904 Died)
  • Félix Soto y Mancera (14 Nov 1904 – 31 Jan 1910 Died)
  • Adolfo Pérez y Muñoz (18 Jul 1913 – 11 Jul 1920 Appointed, Bishop of Córdoba)
  • Ramón Pérez y Rodríguez (31 Aug 1920 – 7 Jan 1929 Appointed, Bishop of Spain, Military)
  • José Maria Alcaráz y Alenda (13 Mar 1930 – 22 Jul 1971 Died)
  • Doroteo Fernández y Fernández (22 Jul 1971 – 15 Jan 1979 Resigned)
  • Antonio Montero Moreno (3 May 1980 – 9 Jul 2004 Retired)

Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz edit

Elevated: 28 July 1994

Auxiliary bishops edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ [1][dead link]
  2. ^ "Web Translator".
  3. ^ "Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  4. ^ "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  5. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Badajoz".
  6. ^ Pope John Paul II (28 July 1994), "Constitutiones Apostolicae - Emeritensis Augustana" (PDF), Acta Apostolicae Sedis (in Latin), Vatican: Congregation for Bishops, 86: 936–937
  7. ^ "Bishop Diego de Simancas" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 5, 2016
  8. ^ "Bishop Diego de Simancas" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved September 5, 2016
  9. ^ "Archbishop Juan Beltrán Guevara y Figueroa" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  10. ^ "Bishop Juan Roco Campofrío, O.S.B." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved June 30, 2016

References edit

  • James, Edward (1980). Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822543-1.
  • Collins, Roger (2004). Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-18185-7.
  • Collins, Roger (1992). "King Leovigild and the Conversion of the Visigoths". Law, Culture, and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain. Great Yarmouth: Variorum. ISBN 0-86078-308-1. Originally published in El Concilio III de Toledo: XIV Centenario, 589–1989. Toledo: Arzobispado de Toledo, 1991.
  • Thompson, E. A. (1969). The Goths in Spain. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-814271-4.
  • Thompson, E. A. Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. ISBN 0-299-08700-X.
  • Pope John Paul II (28 July 1994), "Constitutiones Apostolicae - Emeritensis Augustana-Pacensis" (PDF), Acta Apostolicae Sedis (in Latin), Vatican: Congregation for Bishops, 86: 936–937, Nova constituitur in Hispania Provincia ecclesiastica Emeritensis Augustana - Pacensis et Sedes ad Metropolitanae Ecclesiae statum attollitur.

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

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The Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz Latin Archidioecesis Emeritensis Augustanus Pacensis is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in Spain created in 1255 Until 1994 it was known as the Diocese of Badajoz 3 4 Archdiocese of Merida BadajozArchidioecesis Emeritensis Augustanus PacensisArchidiocesis de Merida BadajozBadajoz CathedralLocationCountrySpainEcclesiastical provinceMerida BadajozStatisticsArea17 405 km2 6 720 sq mi Population Total Catholics as of 2004 585 290581 414 99 3 InformationDenominationRoman CatholicSui iuris churchLatin ChurchRiteRoman RiteEstablished1255 As Diocese of Badajoz 28 July 1994 As Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz CathedralCathedral of St John the Baptist in BadajozCo cathedralCo Cathedral of Saint Mary Major MeridaCurrent leadershipPopeFrancisMetropolitan ArchbishopCelso Morga Iruzubieta formerly Coadjutor Archbishop until Thursday May 21 2015 1 2 SuffragansDiocese of Coria CaceresDiocese of PlasenciaBishops emeritusSantiago Garcia Aracil Archbishop Emeritus retired in 2015 MapWebsiteWebsite of the ArchdioceseCo cathedral of Saint Mary Major of Merida Contents 1 History 2 Suffragan dioceses 3 Ordinaries 3 1 Diocese of Badajoz 3 1 1 Bishops before 1500 3 1 2 1500s 3 1 3 1600s 3 1 4 1700s 3 1 5 1800s 3 1 6 1900s 3 2 Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz 4 Auxiliary bishops 5 Notes 6 ReferencesHistory editThe Diocese or Archdiocese of Merida dioecesis Emeritensis was a Catholic and Arian see centred on the Spanish city of Merida during the periods of Roman and Visigothic rule Merida was also the provincial capital of Lusitania The see prospered in the late 5th century under Zeno a Greek who was offered greater authority in order to defend the province from Suevic raids At about that time the diocese fell under the control of the Visigoths and it remained a Visigothic see until the Moorish conquest of 711 Throughout that period however it only ever had two Gothic bishops Masona and his successor Renovatus in the late sixth and early seventh centuries In the mid sixth century the see became the richest in Spain through the private wealth of bishops Paul and Fidelis Greek uncle and nephew Under these four the city was ruled de facto by the bishops independent of the central government a situation which led to conflict between the Arian king Leovigild and his bishop Sunna The bishopric of Badajoz was erected in 1225 shortly after it was reconquered from the Moors by King Alfonso IX of Leon Its first bishop was Don Pedro Perez appointed by Alfonso X the Wise The diocese was suffragan to the archdiocese of Seville and was bounded on the north by the diocese of Coria diocese of Plasencia and diocese of Toledo on the east by Toledo the diocese of Ciudad Real and the diocese of Cordoba on the south by the archdiocese of Seville and on the west by Portugal 5 On July 28 1994 Pope John Paul II established the Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz making the Church of Saint John Baptist his metropolitan cathedral 6 Suffragan dioceses editCoria Caceres PlasenciaOrdinaries editDiocese of Badajoz edit Erected 1255 Bishops before 1500 edit Bernardo 13 Jun 1300 Appointed Juan Garcia Palomeque 24 Oct 1354 4 Mar 1373 Appointed Bishop of Osma Pedro Silva y Tenorio O P 19 Oct 1461 20 Jan 1479 Died Giovanni d Aragona 20 Jan 1479 14 May 1479 Resigned Bernardino Lopez de Carvajal y Sande 23 Jan 1489 27 Mar 1493 Appointed Bishop of Cartagena en Espana Juan Ruiz de Medina 1493 1495 Appointed Bishop of Cartagena Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca 1495 1499 Appointed Bishop of Cordoba Alfonso Manrique de Lara y Solis 6 Sep 1499 18 Aug 1516 Appointed Bishop of Cordoba 1500s edit Pedro Ruiz de la Mota O S B 22 Aug 1516 4 Jul 1520 Appointed Bishop of Palencia Bernardo de Mesa O P 20 Feb 1521 1524 Died Pedro Gomez Sarmiento de Villandrando 26 Oct 1524 3 Jul 1525 Appointed Bishop of Palencia Pedro Gonzalez Manso 3 Jul 1525 13 Mar 1532 Appointed Bishop of Osma Jeronimo Suarez Maldonado 20 Mar 1532 18 Sep 1545 Died Francisco de Navarra y Hualde 14 Dec 1545 4 May 1556 Appointed Archbishop of Valencia Cristobal Rojas Sandoval 4 May 1556 27 May 1562 Appointed Bishop of Cordoba St Juan de Ribera 27 May 1562 3 Dec 1568 Appointed Archbishop of Valencia Diego de Simancas 3 Dec 1568 13 Jun 1578 Appointed Bishop of Zamora 7 8 Diego Gomez de Lamadrid O SS T 13 Jun 1578 15 Aug 1601 Died 1600s edit Andres Fernandez de Cordoba y Carvajal 7 Oct 1602 1611 Died Juan Beltran Guevara y Figueroa 28 Nov 1611 12 Jan 1615 Appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela 9 Cristobal de Lobera y Torres 16 Nov 1615 9 Jul 1618 Appointed Bishop of Osma Pedro Fernandez Zorrilla 23 Jul 1618 14 Jun 1627 Confirmed Bishop of Pamplona Juan Roco Campofrio O S B 5 Jul 1627 8 Mar 1632 Appointed Bishop of Coria 10 Gabriel Ortiz Sotomayor 3 Dec 1635 17 Apr 1640 Died Jose Valle de la Cerda O S B 17 Dec 1640 22 Oct 1644 Died Angel Manrique O Cist 12 Jun 1645 28 Feb 1649 Died Diego Lopez de la Vega 23 Aug 1649 28 Jan 1658 Appointed Bishop of Coria Diego del Castillo y Arteaga 25 Feb 1658 21 Sep 1658 Died Gabriel de Esparza Perez 27 Jan 1659 13 Mar 1662 Appointed Bishop of Salamanca Jeronimo Rodriguez de Valderas O de M 17 Apr 1662 9 Apr 1668 Appointed Bishop of Jaen Francisco de Rois y Mendoza O Cist 14 May 1668 29 May 1673 Appointed Archbishop of Granada Francisco Lara archbishop 26 Jun 1673 1 Mar 1675 Appointed Archbishop of Zaragoza Agustin Antolinez bishop O S A 6 Dec 1675 17 Jul 1677 Died Juan Herrero Jaraba 8 Nov 1677 17 Mar 1681 Appointed Bishop of Plasencia Juan Marin y Rodezno 28 Apr 1681 12 Jan 1706 Died 1700s edit Alfonso Rozado 19 Jul 1706 21 Dec 1706 Died Francisco Valero y Losa 7 Nov 1707 18 Mar 1715 Confirmed Archbishop of Toledo Pedro Francisco Levanto Vivaldo 8 Jul 1715 2 Feb 1729 Died Amador Merino y Malaguillas 8 Feb 1730 29 Jan 1755 Died Manuel Perez Minayo y Zumeda 21 Jul 1755 28 Nov 1779 Died Santiago Palmero Escada 11 Dec 1780 10 Dec 1781 Died Alonso de Solis Marroquin y Gragera O S 17 Feb 1783 8 Feb 1797 Died Gabriel Alvarez de Faria y Sanchez Zarzosa 18 Dec 1797 11 Apr 1802 Died 1800s edit Mateo Delgado y Moreno 9 Aug 1802 16 Feb 1841 Died Francisco Javier Rodriguez y Obregon 17 Dec 1847 4 Jan 1853 Died Manuel Garcia Gil O P 22 Dec 1853 23 Dec 1858 Appointed Archbishop of Zaragoza Diego Mariano Alguacil y Rodriguez 23 Dec 1858 23 Dec 1861 Confirmed Bishop of Vitoria Pantaleon Monserrat y Navarro 7 Apr 1862 1 Oct 1863 Appointed Bishop of Barcelona Joaquin Hernandez y Herrero 21 Dec 1863 25 Sep 1865 Confirmed Bishop of Segorbe Fernando Ramirez y Vazquez 25 Sep 1865 14 Nov 1890 Died Francisco Saenz de Urturi y Crespo O F M 1 Jun 1891 21 May 1894 Appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba Ramon Torrijos y Gomez 21 May 1894 16 Jan 1903 Died 1900s edit Jose Hevia y Campomanes O P 25 Jun 1903 2 May 1904 Died Felix Soto y Mancera 14 Nov 1904 31 Jan 1910 Died Adolfo Perez y Munoz 18 Jul 1913 11 Jul 1920 Appointed Bishop of Cordoba Ramon Perez y Rodriguez 31 Aug 1920 7 Jan 1929 Appointed Bishop of Spain Military Jose Maria Alcaraz y Alenda 13 Mar 1930 22 Jul 1971 Died Doroteo Fernandez y Fernandez 22 Jul 1971 15 Jan 1979 Resigned Antonio Montero Moreno 3 May 1980 9 Jul 2004 Retired Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz edit Elevated 28 July 1994 Antonio Montero Moreno 3 May 1980 9 Jul 2004 Retired Santiago Garcia Aracil 9 Jul 2004 21 May 2015 Retired Celso Morga Iruzubieta 21 May 2015 Succeeded Auxiliary bishops editFernando de Vera y Zuniga 1614 1628 Notes edit 1 dead link Web Translator Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved February 29 2016 Metropolitan Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz GCatholic org Gabriel Chow Retrieved February 29 2016 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Badajoz Pope John Paul II 28 July 1994 Constitutiones Apostolicae Emeritensis Augustana PDF Acta Apostolicae Sedis in Latin Vatican Congregation for Bishops 86 936 937 Bishop Diego de Simancas Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved September 5 2016 Bishop Diego de Simancas GCatholic org Gabriel Chow Retrieved September 5 2016 Archbishop Juan Beltran Guevara y Figueroa Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved February 29 2016 Bishop Juan Roco Campofrio O S B Catholic Hierarchy org David M Cheney Retrieved June 30 2016References editJames Edward 1980 Visigothic Spain New Approaches Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 822543 1 Collins Roger 2004 Visigothic Spain 409 711 Oxford Blackwell Publishing ISBN 0 631 18185 7 Collins Roger 1992 King Leovigild and the Conversion of the Visigoths Law Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain Great Yarmouth Variorum ISBN 0 86078 308 1 Originally published in El Concilio III de Toledo XIV Centenario 589 1989 Toledo Arzobispado de Toledo 1991 Thompson E A 1969 The Goths in Spain Oxford Clarendon Press ISBN 0 19 814271 4 Thompson E A Romans and Barbarians The Decline of the Western Empire Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1982 ISBN 0 299 08700 X Pope John Paul II 28 July 1994 Constitutiones Apostolicae Emeritensis Augustana Pacensis PDF Acta Apostolicae Sedis in Latin Vatican Congregation for Bishops 86 936 937 Nova constituitur in Hispania Provincia ecclesiastica Emeritensis Augustana Pacensis et Sedes ad Metropolitanae Ecclesiae statum attollitur nbsp This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Herbermann Charles ed 1913 Badjoz Catholic Encyclopedia New York Robert Appleton Company 38 52 42 N 6 58 10 W 38 8784 N 6 9695 W 38 8784 6 9695 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz amp oldid 1179477973, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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