Latin
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diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
of the
Catholic Church
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located in the city of
Salamanca
Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...
in the
ecclesiastical province
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of
Valladolid
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Diocese of Salamanca" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
History
The See of Salamanca is of unknown origin. St. Secundus is said to have founded the Diocese of Avila. Signatures of bishops of Salamanca are found in the
Councils of Toledo
From the 5th century to the 7th century AD, about thirty synods, variously counted, were held at Toledo (''Concilia toletana'') in what would come to be part of Spain. The earliest, directed against Priscillianism, assembled in 400. The "thir ...
; in the third council is that of Eleutherius; at the coronation of King Gondemar, that of Teveristus; in the fourth and sixth of Hiccila; in the seventh, eighth and tenth, of Egeretus; in the Provincial Council of Mérida (metropolis of Salamanca) the signature of Justus;in the twelfth of Toledo that of Providentius; in the thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, of Holemund, probably contemporaneous with the Muslim invasion.
Alfonso I the Catholic pushed his conquests as far as Salamanca, and
Ordoño I of Asturias
Ordoño I ( – 27 May 866) was King of Asturias from 850 until his death. He was born in Oviedo, where he spent his early life in the court of Alfonso II. He was probably raised in Lugo, capital of the province of Galicia, where his father, ...
captured the city, but its bishops continued to reside in
Asturias
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, where the Church of San Julian, outside the walls of Oviedo, was assigned to them. Bishop Quindulfus (802) signed a royal deed of gift.
Ramiro II of León
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, who defeated the Muslim forces at
Simancas
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, began to repopulate Salamanca. In 1102 the king's son-in-law Raymond, Count of Burgundy, and his wife Urraca of Castile, gave the churches of the city to Don Jerónimo, the count's master, and built the Cathedral of S. Maria. The celebrated bishop, comrade of the Cid Campeador, died in 1120 and was interred in the newly built basilica, to which he left the "Christ of the Battles" (Cristo de las Batallas).
Later bishops were:
*Gerardo; Munio, a partisan of Alfonso of Aragon;
*Berengario, consecrated in 1135 and transferred to
Santiago de Compostela
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in 1151;
*Navarro;
*Ordoño Gonzalo;
*
Pedro Suárez de Deza
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The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meanin ...
, praised by
Pope Alexander III
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A native of Siena, Alexander became pope after a Papal election, ...
for learning and prudence;
*Vitalis, who maintained the validity of
Alfonso IX
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Pope Celestine III
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and the sentence of the bishops presided over by Cardinal Guillermo in 1197.
From his period date the
university of Salamanca
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and the most ancient and famous convents of
Dominicans
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,
Franciscans
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, and Clarisses. In October, 1310, the see being vacant, fifteen prelates of the ancient Province of Lusitania, presided over by the Archbishop of Santiago, assembled in the cathedral of Salamanca to try the case of the
Knights Templar
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, and found them innocent in Spain of all the atrocities with which they were charged.
Bishop Juan Lucero accompanied King
Alfonso XI
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to the conquest of
Algeciras
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. Later on he became subservient to the caprices of Pedro I the Cruel and annulled (1354) his marriage with
Blanche of Bourbon
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in order to unite him with Juana de Castro. Lucero's successor, Alsonso Barrasa, on the contrary, supported Henry of Trastamare against Pedro. In May, 1382, a council was held at Salamanca to take action in the matter of the schism of Avignon, and Castile decided in favour of the antipope. In another council (1410) Salamanca again recognized Peter de Luna (Benedict XIII) as pope. At this time
Vincent Ferrer
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laboured to convert the Jews of Salamanca; from 1460 to 1478
John of Sahagun
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* John (surname)
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New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
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* Second Ep ...
preached in the diocese.
Special churches
*Minor Basilicas:
** Basílica de Santa Teresa, Alba de Tormes, Salamanca,
Castilla y Leon
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*Kingdom of ...
*Quindulf (c. 830)
*Duclidius I (c. 876)
*Sebastian I (c. 880)
*Fredesind (c. 898)
*Duclidius II (c. 921)
*Theodomund (c. 960)
*Salvatus (c. 973)
*Sebastian II (c. 987)
*Gonzalo I (c. 1022)
Leonese–Castilian period
*
Jerome
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(1102–1120)
*
Gerald
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Pedro Suárez de Deza
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The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meanin ...
Pedro Pérez
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Alfonso
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(1306–1309)
*
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* Patriarch Peter V of Alexandria (7th–8th centuries)
* Pope Peter V of Alexandria (ruled 1340–1348)
* Peter V of Aragon (IV of Barcelona) (1429–1466), Constable of Portugal and Grand Master of the Order of Aviz
* Peter ...
Raffaele Sansone Riario
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(apostolic administrator 8 Jul 1482 – 15 Jan 1483), cardinal
* Diego Meléndez de Valdés (1483–1491), elect, never consecrated
*
Hernando de Talavera
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(apostolic administrator 1483–1485), named bishop of Ávila
* Pedro Díaz de Toledo (apostolic administrator 1485–1491)
Modern period
*
Oliviero Carafa
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 21, 2016
* Francisco Bobadilla (18 Nov 1510 – 29 Aug 1529 Died)
*
Jerónimo Manrique de Lara (bishop of Salamanca)
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Bishop of Pamplona
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 19, 2016
*
Juan Ortiz de Zárate (bishop)
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Bishop of Pamplona
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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Archbishop of Granada
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)
* Francisco Calderón de la Barca Nieto (20 Jul 1693 – 25 Feb 1712 Died)
*Silvestre García Escalona (13 Jun 1714 – 20 Apr 1729 Died)
*José Sancho Granado (23 Dec 1729 – 30 Sep 1748 Died)
*José Zorrilla de Sanmartín (20 Jan 1749 – 30 Sep 1762 Died)
* Felipe Beltrán Serrano (18 Jul 1763 – 30 Nov 1783 Died)
*Andrés José Barco Espinosa (27 Jun 1785 A – 17 Apr 1794 Died)
*Felipe Antonio Fernández Vallejo (12 Sep 1794 – 18 Dec 1797 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela)
*Antonio Tavira Almazán (14 Aug 1798 – 8 Jan 1807 Died)
*Gerardo José Andrés Vázquez Parga, OCist (3 Aug 1807 – 16 Sep 1821 Died)
*Agustín Lorenzo Varela Temes (12 Jul 1824 – 21 Mar 1849 Died)
*Salvador Sanz Grado (7 Jan 1850 – 21 Jan 1851 Died)
*Antolín García Lozano (5 Sep 1851 – 15 May 1852 Died)
*Fernando de la Puente y Primo de Rivera (27 Sep 1852 – 25 Sep 1857 Confirmed, Archbishop of Burgos)
*Anastasio Rodrigo Yusto (25 Sep 1857 – 20 Sep 1867 Confirmed, Archbishop of Burgos)
*
Joaquín Lluch y Garriga
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Bishop of Barcelona
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The cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor basilica: Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i S ...
)
*Narciso Martínez Izquierdo (16 Jan 1874 – 27 Mar 1885 Appointed, Bishop of Madrid)
* Tomás Jenaro de Cámara y Castro, OSA (27 Mar 1885 – 17 May 1904 Died)
*Francisco Javier Valdés y Noriega, OSA (14 Nov 1904 – 22 Jan 1913 Died)
*Julián de Diego y García Alcolea (18 Jul 1913 – 27 Jul 1923 Appointed, Patriarch of the West Indies)
*Ángel Regueras y López (26 Oct 1923 – 28 Dec 1924 Died)
*Francisco Frutos y Valiente (14 Dec 1925 – 24 Jan 1933 Died)
*
Enrique Pla y Deniel
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(28 Jan 1935 – 31 Oct 1941 Appointed,
Archbishop of Toledo
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)
*Francisco Barbado y Viejo, OP (10 Apr 1942 – 29 Apr 1964 Died)
*Mauro Rubio Repullés (7 Jul 1964 – 12 May 1995 Retired)
* Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (12 May 1995 – 28 Aug 2002 Appointed, Archbishop of Valladolid)
*Carlos López Hernández (9 Jan 2003 – 15 Nov 2021 Retired)
*José Luis Retana Gozalo (15 Nov 2021 – present)
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Spain
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The Spanish Constitution of 1978 establishes the non- ...
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of León in Spain
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* Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter ...
Kingdom of León
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Leonese language
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