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Its
ecclesiastical province
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Palencia
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Concordat of 1851
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almost the entire
Burgos province
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. ...
.
Its area is approximately , with a population in the early 20th century of 340,000, divided into 1220
parish
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es which form forty-seven vicariates. By 2006, the number of parishes had declined to 1001.
In 2006, the Archdiocese of Burgos had 339,360 Catholics.According to Catholic-Hierarchy /ref> This meant that 94% of the population was Catholic in the area. However, since the Catholic Church records people who have been baptized as members, and only with the rare occurrence of excommunication are people normally removed from the records, this figure probably includes many people who not only do not attend Catholic services but may have actually been baptized in and currently attending
Protestant
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,
Latter-day Saint
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or Muslim services.
The diocese had 589 Catholics per priest, which although it was higher than the 439 Catholics per priest that there had been in 1978 it was much lower than the 655 Catholics per priest in the Diocese back in 1950.
Geography
The northern and eastern portion of the diocese is mountainous, thickly wooded, and traversed by rivers, among which is the
Ebro
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, which rises in the mountains and serves as the eastern boundary for
Miranda de Ebro
Miranda de Ebro (Spanish: iˈɾan̪da ðe ˈeβɾo is a city on the Ebro river in the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is located in the north-eastern part of the province, on the border with the prov ...
. The Arlanza which crosses the diocese from east to west flows by
Salas de los Infantes
Salas de los Infantes is a municipality and city located in Burgos Province between La Rioja, Soria and Burgos in Spain. It is hilly with many foothills and mountains. The mountain range Sierra de la Demanda with the black lagoon, ''La Laguna Ne ...
, near the famous monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, and through the center of the well-known town of Lerma.
The mountainous region is unproductive of cereals, but fruits grow in abundance, and fine pasture-lands sustain great herds of cows and sheep, which furnish excellent meat and milk. Delicate cheeses which take their name from the city and are famous throughout Spain, are made in this section. Minerals are abundant, especially sulphate of soda, common salt, iron, and hard coal. The southern part of the diocese, especially the valley and plains, is fertile and produces abundantly vegetables, cereals, and quite a quantity of wind. The climate, cold but healthy, is damp towards the north. Although this section has few industries, the transportation of its fruit and minerals is greatly facilitated by the numerous highways and by the railroad between
Madrid
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and
France
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which crosses the eastern side of the diocese from south to north. There are also some secondary railway lines for the operation of the mines.
Spain
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, into which in the 1087 the territory of the suppressed
Roman Catholic Diocese
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of
Valpuesta
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History
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Tarragona
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; later the
titular see
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of
Valliposita
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History
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) was merged.
In 1574
Pope Gregory XIII
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Some important councils have been held in Burgos. A national council took place there in 1078, although opinions differ as to date (the "Boletín de la Academia de la Historia de Madrid", 1906, XLIX, 337, says 1080). This was presided over by the
papal delegate
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Sacramentary
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, in place of the Mozarabic Rite then in use (which now survives only in Toledo).
Another national council, presided over by Cardinal Boso (d. 1181), also papal delegate, settled questions of discipline and established diocesan rights and limits. The proceedings of this council remained unpublished until quite recently, when they were made known in the Boletín already mentioned (XLVIII) 395).
In 1898, a provincial council was called by Archbishop (not Cardinal) Don Gregorio Aguirre, in which the obligations of the clergy and the faithful were most minutely set forth.
(Archi)Episcopal incumbents
Bishops of Burgos (1075–1574)
# 1075–1082 : Simeón (or Simón)
# 1082–1096 : Gómez
# 1097–1114 : García Aznárez
# 1114–1118 : Pascual
# 1119–1146 : Ramiro (intruso)
# 1147–1156 : Víctor
# 1156–1181 : Pedro Pérez
# 1181–1200 : Marino Maté
# 1200–1205 : Mateo I
# 1206–1211 : García Martínez de Contreras"Bishop García de Contreras" ''
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# 1211–1212 : Juan Maté
# 1213–1238 : Mauricio
# 1240–1246 :
Juan Domínguez de Medina
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# 1275–1280 : Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel, Appointed,
Archbishop of Toledo
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# 1280–1299 :
Fernando Covarrubias
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Alfonso de Cartagena
Alfonso de Santa María de Cartagena (variants: ''Alfonso de Carthagena'', ''Alonso de Cartagena''; 1384 in Burgos – 1456 in Villasandino) was a converso, Jewish convert to Christianity, a Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer o ...
Pascual Rebenga de Ampudia
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Pa ...
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# 1512–1514 : (Cardinal)
Jaime Serra i Cau
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He was archbishop of Orist ...
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# 15 . .–1514 :
Ortega Gomiel
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# 1514–1524 :
Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca
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# 1525–1527 :
Antonio de Rojas Manrique
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Bishop of Burgos (1525–1527), ''(in Latin)''
Bishop of Palencia (1524–1525), ''(in Latin)''
Ar ...
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# 1529–1537 :
Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga
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Biography
Don Íñigo was born in Aranda de ...
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# 1537–1550 :
Juan Álvarez de Toledo
Juan Álvarez de Toledo (15 July 1488 – 15 September 1557) was a Spanish Dominican and Cardinal, from 1538. Considered '' papabile'' in the papal conclave (1549–1550), he was initially running second in votes to Reginald Pole. He was again ...
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# 1550–1566 : (Cardinal)
Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla
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Biography
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# 1567–1574 : (Cardinal)
Francisco Pacheco de Toledo
Francisco Pacheco de Toledo (1508 – 23 August 1579) was a Spanish Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal.
Life
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Archbishops of Burgos (from 1574)
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archbishopric
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History
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by
Pope Gregory XIII
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.''
# 1574–1579 : (Cardinal)
Francisco Pacheco de Toledo
Francisco Pacheco de Toledo (1508 – 23 August 1579) was a Spanish Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal.
Life
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, Died; ''see above''
# 1580–1599 :
Cristóbal Vela Tavera
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# 1600–1604 :
Antonio Zapata y Cisneros
Antonio Zapata y Cisneros, also listed as Zapata y Mendoza,Salvador Miranda (Madrid, 8 October 1550 – Madrid, c. 27 April 1635) was a Spanish bishop. He served as bishop of Cádiz and Pamplona, archbishop of Burgos, cardinal, councillor of s ...
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José González Díez
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# 1640–1655 :
Francisco de Manso Zuñiga y Sola
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# . . . . .1657 :
Juan Pérez Delgado
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# 1658–1663 : Antonio Payno Osorio, Appointed, Archbishop of Seville
# 1663–1664 :
Diego de Tejada y la Guardia
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Fernando Manuel de Mejía
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Ramón José de Arce
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Cirilo Alameda y Brea
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, OFM Obs, Appointed, Archbishop of Toledo (Cardinal in 1858)
# 1857–1867 :
Fernando de la Puente y Primo de Rivera
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Pedro Segura y Sáenz
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#1605–1610 :
Alonso Orozco Enriquez de Armendáriz Castellanos y Toledo
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, Appointed,
Bishop of Santiago de Cuba
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#1648–1669 :
Pedro Luis Manso Zuñiga
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Bishop of Cuenca
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, called the
Almoner
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History
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because of his great charity to the poor, was born in Burgos; also Saint Amaro the Pilgrim, who has always had a special cult devoted to him in Burgos, though not found in the
Roman Martyrology
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Oña
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* Benedictine monastery of San Salvador de O ...
Province of León
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About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the cap ...
.
Among its saints may also be mentioned the martyrs of Cardeña, religious of the convent of the same name, who in the tenth century were executed by the Arab soldiers of the
Emir of Córdoba
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in one of their numerous invasions of Castile; and St. Casilda, daughter of a
Moorish
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Moors are not a distinct or se ...
king of Toledo, converted near Burgos whither she had gone with her father's consent to drink the water of some medicinal springs. She built a hermitage and died a saintly death.
See also
*
Timeline of Burgos
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Prior to 20th century
* 884 - Castle of Burgos founded by Diego Rodríguez Porcelos, the second List of Castilian counts#The early, non-hereditary counts, ...