The Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón (; ) is a

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of the

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located in north-eastern

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, in the

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of Castellón, part of the

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. The diocese forms part of the

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of Valencia, and is thus

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to the Archdiocese of Valencia.

History

No name of any Bishop of Segorbe is known earlier than Proculus, who signed in the

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(589). He was followed by a succession of bishop until Anterius, who attended the

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(688) and the sixteenth (693). After this, there is no information of its bishops until the Arab invasion, when its church was converted into a

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. In 1172

Pedro Ruiz de Azagra Pedro Ruiz de Azagra (died 1186) was a Navarrese nobleman and soldier who established the independent Lordship of Albarracín, which lasted until 1284. He was the second son of Rodrigo Pérez de Azagra. His elder brother was Gonzalo Ruiz and his y ...

, second son of the Lord of Estella, held the city of

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, and succeeded in establishing there a bishop. Pedro's refusal to recognise Aragonese sovereignty extended to his bishop, Martin, who refused to recognise the supremacy of the

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, though ordered to do so by the pope. Instead, Martin swore allegiance to the Metropolitan of Toledo. Four years later, Martin took instead the title of Bishop of

Segorbe Segorbe is a municipality in the mountainous coastal province of Castelló, Valencia (autonomous community), autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The former Palace of the Dukes of Medinaceli now houses the city's mayor. Segorbe's bull-running ...

."Nuestra historia", Obispado Segorbe Castellon
/ref> This choice of name follows the ideology of the Reconquest, according to which the bishops were simply restoring the old Christian entities only temporarily taken over by the

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. In this way, the city of Albarracín became the seat of the bishops of Segorbe. When Segorbe was conquered by the king

James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror ( Catalan/Valencian: ''Jaume I or Jaume el Conqueridor''; Aragonese: ''Chaime I'' ''o Conqueridor''; ; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1 ...

in 1245, the cathedral seat was relocated from Albarracín to Segorbe. There arose serious territorial disputes with the Archdiocese of Valencia which claimed rights over several churches in Segorbe. The Bishop of Valencia, Arnau of Peralta, entered the church of Segorbe by force and expelled the prelate. The controversy being referred to

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, Rome agreed with the Bishop of Segorbe-Albarracín. In 1318

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raised the see of Zaragoza to an Archdiocese, with the diocese of Segorbe-Albarracín as a suffragan. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady of Segorbe, once a

, was reconsecrated in 1534, and in 1795 the nave was lengthened, and new altars added, in the episcopate of Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo.Amadó,Ramón Ruiz. "Segorbe." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 9 November 2022 In 1577,

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, at the urging of

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, separated Albarracín and Segorbe. The terms of the papal bull specified that Segorbe belonged to the Kingdom of Valencia and Albarracín to that of Aragón. The order was well received in Albarracín, but not in Segorbe. The new bishopric of Albarracín was proclaimed a suffragan of Zaragoza, while that of Segorbe was of Valencia. In 1960 the see became the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón. Following the ''De mutatione finium Dioecesium Valentinae-Segorbicensis-Dertotensis'' decree, of 31 May 1960, the parishes belonging to the

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were dismembered and aggregated to the Archdiocese of Valencia. On the other hand, the

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, Castelló de la Plana,

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and

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parishes that had belonged to the

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were aggregated to the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón along with the parish of

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Present day

The Cathedral was elevated to the rank of

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in 1985. Its time-stained tower and its cloister are built on a trapezoidal ground plan. It is connected by a bridge with the old episcopal palace. The Cathedral Museum is located in the upper cloister and its adjacent rooms."Segorbe Cathedral Museum", ''Spain is Culture'', Ministry of Culture and Sport
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Bishops of Segorbe (6th and 7th centuries)

* c. 589: Proculus (Mentioned in the

of 589) * c. 610: Porcarius (Mentioned in the Council of Gundemar of 610) * c. 633: Antonius (Mentioned in the

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of 633) * c. 646: Floridius (Mentioned in the

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of 646) * c. 655: Eusicius (Mentioned in the

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and Tenth

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of 655 and 656) * c. 680: Memorius (Mentioned in the

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and twelfth

of 675 and 681) * c. 683: Olipa (Mentioned in the Thirteenth Council of Toledo of 683) * c. 690: Anterius (Mentioned in the

and sixteenth

of 688 and 693) ''Episcopal see suppressed (unknown–1173)''

Bishops of Segorbe (1173–1259)

''Bishops of Segorbe with seat in

.'' All the names are given in

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: # 1173–1213: Martín # 1213–1215: Hispano # 1216–1222: Juan Gil # 1223–1234: Domingo # 1235–1238: Guillermo # 1245–1246: Jimeno # 1246–1259: Pedro

Bishops of Segorbe-Albarracín (1259–1576)

All the names are given in

: # 1259–1265: Martín Álvarez # 1265–1272: Pedro Garcés # 1272–1277: Pedro Jiménez de Segura # 1284–1288: Miguel Sánchez # 1288–1301: Aparicio # 1302–1318: Antonio Muñoz # 1319–1356: Sancho Dull # 1356–1362: Elías # 1362–1369: Juan Martínez de Barcelona # 1369–1387: Iñigo de Valterra # 1387–1400: Diego de Heredia # 1400–1409: Francisco Riquer y Bastero # 1410–1427: Juan de Tauste # 1428–1437: Francisco de Aguiló # 1438–1445: Jaime Gerart # 1445–1454: Gisberto Pardo de la Casta # 1455–1459: Luis de Milá y Borja # 1461–1473:

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# 1473–1498:

Bartolomé Martí Bartolomé Martí (died 1500) (called the Cardinal of Segorbe) was a Spanish people, Spanish Catholic Church, Catholic Bishop (Catholic Church), bishop and Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal. Biography Bartolomé Martí was born in Valencia, ca. 14 ...

# 1498–1499: Juan Marrades # 1500–1530: Gilberto Martí # 1530–1556: Gaspar Jofre de Borja # 1556–1571: Juan de Muñatones # 1571–1576: Francisco de Soto Salazar

Bishops of Segorbe (1577–1960)

# 1577–1578: Francisco Sancho # 1579–1582: Gil Ruiz de Liori # 1583–1591:

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# 1591–1597: Juan Bautista Pérez Rubert # 1599–1609: Feliciano de Figueroa # 1610–1635: Pedro Ginés de Casanova # 1636–1638: Juan Bautista Pellicer # 1639–1652: Diego Serrano de Sotomayor # 1652–1660: Francisco Gavaldá # 1661–1672: Anastasio Vives de Rocamora # 1673–1679:

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# 1680–1691: Crisóstomo Royo de Castellví # 1691–1707:

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# 1708–1714: Rodrigo Marín Rubio # 1714–1730: Diego Muños de Baquerizo # 1731–1748: Francisco de Cepeda y Guerrero # 1749–1751: Francisco Cuartero # 1751–1757: Pedro Fernández Velarde # 1758–1770: Blas de Arganda # 1770–1780: Alonso Cano # 1780–1781: Lorenzo Lay Anzano # 1783–1808: Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo # 1814–1816:

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# 1816–1821: Francisco de la Dueña Cisneros #* 1822–1824: Vicente Ramos García (Elected) # 1825–1837: Juan Sanz Palanco # 1847–1864: Domingo Canubio y Alberto # 1865–1868: Joaquín Hernández Herrero # 1868–1875: José Luis Montagut # 1876–1880: Mariano Miguel Gómez # 1880–1899: Francisco Aguilar # 1900–1907: Manuel García Cerero y Soler # 1907–1911: Antonio María Massanet # 1913–1934: Luis Amigó Ferrer # 1936–1936:

Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats (11 January 1868 – 9 August 1936) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic church and Bishop of Sergorbe. Biography Serra was born on 11 January 1868 in Olot in Girona Spain. He studied for the prie ...

# 1944–1950: Ramón Sanahuja y Marcé # 1951–1960: José Pont y Gol

Bishops of Segorbe-Castellón (since 1960)

# 1960–1970: José Pont y Gol # 1971–1996: José María Cases Deordal # 1996–2005: Juan Antonio Reig Pla # 2006–today: Casimiro López Llorente

References

Sources

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Obispado de Segorbe-Castellón (Segóbriga)
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