province of Burgos
The Province of Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Álava, La Rioja, Soria, Segovia, and Valladolid. ...
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Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
titular see
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of the
Catholic Church
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. Its Latin adjective is ''Aucen(sis)''.
Visigothic see
It was established at Oca, what is now
Villafranca Montes de Oca
Villafranca Montes de Oca is a municipality, former medieval bishopric and present Latin titular see located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, northern Spain. According to the 2005 census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), I ...
, no later than 589, when its bishop Asterius attended the
Third Council of Toledo
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, but vaguer notices may trace it back as early as the 3rd century. Monastic life flourished there during the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (6th–8th century).
However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at Amaya,
Valpuesta
Valpuesta (Latin ''Valliposita'' or ''Valle Conposita'') was a Catholic diocese in Castile in northern Spain. Today it is a titular see.
History
According to unreliable documents in the cartularies of Valpuesta, the diocese was established in ...
Sasamón
Sasamón is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,346 inhabitants.
During pre-Roman times, it was the capital of the Turmodi ...
,
Oña
Oña is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2011 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,219 inhabitants.
Main sights
* Benedictine monastery of San Salvador de Oñ ...
,
Gamonal
Gamonal is a little Spanish village, situated in the municipality of Talavera de la Reina (province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha).
Geography and Demography
Gamonal is located in the middle of Spain, in the northwestern part of Toledo province ...
, only to have their 'see' formally suppressed to restore definitively the
Diocese of Burgos
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
in 1075, confirmed by Pope
Urban II
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titular bishopric
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of Auca (Curiate Latin and Italian.
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
# Daniel Llorente y Federico, 11 December 1969 – death 27 February 1971, bishop emeritus of
Segovia
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Segovia is in the Inner Plateau (''Meseta central''), near the northern slopes of th ...
(
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
) (1944.12.09 – 1969.12.11), previously Titular Bishop of
Daphnusia
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It has an area of 21 hectares, and is about four times as long as it ...
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of t ...
(Spain, cfr. supra history) (1942.03.12 – 1944.12.09)
#
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Places
;Canada
* Hernando Island, British Columbia
;United States
* Hernando, Florida
* Hernando County, Florida
* Hernando, Mississippi ...
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Coadjutor bishop
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Colombia
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), 26 April 1972 – 12 December 1974; later succeeded as Bishop of Espinal (1974.12.12 – 1985.07.01), next Bishop of
Neiva
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(Colombia) (1985.07.01 – 2001.01.19), died 2002
#
Theodor Hubrich
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* Theodor Blueger ...
, as auxiliary bishop in the diocese of
Magdeburg
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Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...
(eastern
Germany
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), 5 December 1975 – resigned 26 March 1992; later
Apostolic Administrator
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of
Schwerin
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(eastern Germany) (1987.11.23 – death 1992.03.26)
#
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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,
Jesuits
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(S.J.) as auxiliary bishop of
Buenos Aires
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(
Argentina
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), 20 May 1992 – 3 June 1997; later
Coadjutor Archbishop The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
These include:
* Coadj ...
of Buenos Aires (1997.06.03 – 1998.02.28), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1998.02.28 – 2013.03.13), also Ordinary of Argentina of the Eastern Rite (1998.11.06 – 2013.03.13), created
Cardinal-Priest
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of
S. Roberto Bellarmino
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(2001.02.21 001.10.14– 2013.03.13), President of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (2005.11.08 – 2011.11.08), elected Supreme Pontiff
Pope Francis
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(2013.03.13 013.03.19– ...)
# Mieczysław Cisło (13 December 1997 – ...), as auxiliary bishop of
Lublin
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Poland
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), no previous prelature.
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Spain, Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar
The diocesan system of the Catholic church government in Spain consists mainly of a nearly entirely Latin hierarchy of 70 territorial (arch)dioceses :
* fourteen ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop (one of which, Tol ...
Oca
OCA or Oca may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions
* The ancient town and bishopric Oca in Asia Minor (present Asia Turkey), now a Latin Catholic titular see
* The former Spanish Oca, modern Villafranca Montes de Oca, also see of a medieval bis ...