Oca (Latin Auca) is a former bishopric in the
province of Burgos
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,
Castile and León region (northern Spain), the predecessor of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos, and presently a Latin
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, no later than 589, when its bishop Asterius attended the
Third Council of Toledo
The Third Council of Toledo (589) marks the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church, and is known for codifying the filioque clause into Western Christianity."Filioque." Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church. ...
, 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 ...
,
Muñó,
Sasamón,
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 O ...
,
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
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, only to have their 'see' formally suppressed to restore definitively the
Diocese of Burgos in 1075, confirmed by Pope
Urban II
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in 1095.
;''Suffragan Bishops of Oca''
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Asterius (floruit 589–597)
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Amanungus (floruit 633–646)
# Litorius (floruit 649–656)
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Stercorius (floruit 675–688)
# Constantine (floruit 693).
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as
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 :
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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 t ...
(
Spain
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, i ...
) (1944.12.09 – 1969.12.11), previously Titular Bishop of
Daphnusia (1942.03.12 – 1944.12.09) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Burgos
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(Spain, cfr. supra history) (1942.03.12 – 1944.12.09)
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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
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(Colombia) (1985.07.01 – 2001.01.19), died 2002
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Theodor Hubrich, as auxiliary bishop in the diocese of
Magdeburg
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(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)
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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:
* Coad ...
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 (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 (
Poland
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), no previous prelature.
See also
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References
Sources and external links
Website of the (successor) archdiocese of Burgos (in Spanish)*
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