Asturleonese
Asturleonese is a Romance language or language family spoken in northwestern Spain and northeastern Portugal, namely in the historical regions and Spain's modern-day autonomous communities of Asturias, northwestern Castile and León, Cantabria an ...
: ''Archidiócesis d'Uviéu'') is a
Latin Church
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Archdiocese of the
Catholic Church
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 29 February 2016 The archdiocese encompasses roughly the current
autonomous community
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of
Asturias
Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain.
It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...
or Principality of Asturias. Erected in the 9th century, the
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
was elevated to an
archdiocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...
in 1954. The diocesan see is in the city of
Oviedo
Oviedo () or Uviéu (Asturian language, Asturian: ) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region. It is also the name of the municipality that contains th ...
, where the ''
Catedral de San Salvador
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* Cerro Catedral (U ...
'' is located.
As of 2023, the archdiocese has a total of 945,818 baptized Catholics, out of a total population of 1,006,193. The number of parishes in the same year was 932, with 337 priests (66 of them belonging to the
regular clergy
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, and the remainder to the
secular clergy
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). There were also 493 nuns and 110 monks.
History
* 811: Established as Diocese of Oviedo
* 27 October 1954: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Oviedo
Basilica
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s:
** Basilica of Santa María la Real,
Covadonga
Covadonga ( Asturian: ''Cuadonga'', from ''cova domnica'' "Cave of Our Lady") is one of 11 parishes in Cangas de Onís, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in Northwestern Spain. It is situated in the Picos de ...
** Basilica of Santa María Magdalena,
Cangas del Narcea
Cangas del Narcea is the oldest municipality in the Principality of Asturias in Spain. It is also the largest municipality in Asturias.
It is in the southwest of Asturias, on the Asturian border with León. Until 1927, Cangas del Narcea was kno ...
** Basilica-Sanctuary of Sagrado Corazón,
Gijón
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** Basilica of Santa Maria de la Asunción de Llanes,
Llanes
Llanes (the ''Concejo de Llanes'', ''Conceyu de Llanes'' in Asturian language) is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east of the province, Llanes is bound ...
*World Heritage Churches
** Basilica of
San Julián de los Prados
San Julián de los Prados, also known as Santullano, is a Pre-Ramirense church from the beginning of the 9th century in Oviedo, the capital city of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is one of the greatest works of Asturian art and was decl ...
Santa María del Naranco
The church of Saint Mary at Mount Naranco (; ) is a pre-Romanesque Asturian building on the slope of Mount Naranco situated from Oviedo, northern Spain.
Ramiro I of Asturias ordered it to be built as a royal palace, part of a larger complex ...
, Oviedo
Leadership
Before 17th century
Since the 17th century
See also
*
Roman Catholicism in Spain
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The Spanish Constitution of 1978 establishes the non- ...