The Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona ( la, Gerunden(sis)) is a

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located in the city of

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...

in the

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History

The first historical mention of a Christian diocese in Girona is in a paper for

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in 397–400.Official website history page
/ref> On 18 June, 517, a synod convened here was attended by the Archbishop of Tarragona and six bishops; canons were promulgated dealing with the recitation of the Divine Office,

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and the

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of the clergy. About 885 Bishop Ingobert of

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was expelled from his see by the intruder Selva, who, under the protection of the Count of Urgell, was consecrated in

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. This usurper also unlawfully placed Hermemiro over the see of Girona. In 892 a synod was held in the Church of Santa Maria in Urgell; the two usurpers were deposed, their vestments rent, their

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s broken over their heads, and they were deprived of their sacerdotal faculties. A council held in

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in 1246 absolved

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from the sacrilege of cutting out the tongue of the Bishop of Girona. Another synod at Girona in 1078 affirmed the nullity of

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ordinations. Honoured with papal prerogatives relating to the pilgrim routes to

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, the Church of Le Puy assumed a sort of informal primacy in respect to most of the Churches of France, and even of Christendom, manifesting itself practically in a 'right to beg', established with the authorization of the Holy See, in virtue of which the chapter of Le Puy levied a veritable tax upon almost all the Christian countries to support its hospital of Notre-Dame. In Catalonia this ''droit de quête'', recognized by Spanish Crown, was so thoroughly established that the chapter had its collectors permanently installed in that country. A famous "fraternity" existed between the chapter of Le Puy and that of Girona in Catalonia. The earliest document in which it is mentioned dates only from 1470, and it involves that at this date the chapter of Girona, in order to escape the financial thraldom which bound it, like many Catalan Churches, to the chapter of Le Puy, alleged its "fraternity" involving its equality—with the Church of Le Puy. In 1479 and in 1481 Pierre Bouvier, a canon of Le Puy, came to Girona, where the canons invoked against him a legend according to which

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had taken Girona, rebuilt its cathedral, given it a canon of Le Puy for a bishop, and established a fraternity between chapters of Girona and Le Puy. Based on this legend they appealed to the liturgical Office which they chanted for the feast of Charlemagne—an Office, dating from 1345, but in which they had recently inserted these tales of the Church of LePuy. In 1484

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prohibited the use of this Office, whereupon there appeared at Girona the "Tractatus de captione Gerunde", reaffirming the Girona legend about the fraternity with Le Puy. Down to the last days of the old regime the two chapters frequently exchanged courtesies; canons of Le Puy passing through Girona and canons of Girona passing through Le Puy enjoyed special privileges. In 1883 the removal by the Bishop of Girona of the statue of Charlemagne from that cathedral marked the definitive collapse of the whole fabric of legends out of which the ''hermandad'' (brotherhood) between Le Puy and Girona had grown. On April 10, 1992 the diocese was renamed as Diocese of Girona.

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: ** Basílica de Santa Maria, Castelló d’Empúries,

**Basílica de Sant Feliu,

Leadership

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s of Girona (Roman rite) * Miró Bonfill (970–984 Died) :''. . .'' *Berenguer de Llers (1147–1160 Died) :''. . .'' *Gilberto Cruilles (1334–1335 Died) :''. . .'' *Berenguer Cruilles (1348–1362 Died) *Íñigo Vallterra Sánchez de Heredia (1362–1369 Appointed,

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) :''. . .'' *Berenguer de Anglesola (1384–1408 Died) :''. . .'' *Dalmacio del Mur (1415–1419 Appointed,

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(1457–1458 Appointed, Administrator of Valencia) * Cosme de Montserrat (1458–1459 Appointed,

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) * Jaume Francesco de Cardona i de Aragón (1459–1461 Appointed,

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) *

Juan Margarit i Pau Joan Margarit i Pau, or in Spanish Juan Margarit y Pau (died 21 November 1484), was a prominent Catalan prelate, a bishop of Girona and a cardinal. Biography Joan Margarit i Pau was born in Girona, around 1424, the son of an aristocratic family. ...

(1461–1484 Died) * Berenguer de Pau (1486–1506 Died) * Juan de Espés (1507–1508 Resigned) * Guillermo Raimundo Boil,

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(1508–1532 Died) * Juan Margarit (bishop) (1534–1554 Died) *

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(1556–1565 Appointed, Bishop of Cartagena (en España)) * Pedro Carlos, O.S. (1565–1572 Died) * Benito Tocco,

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(1572–1583 Appointed, Bishop of Lerida) * Jaime Casador (1583–1597 Died) * Francisco Arévalo de Zuaco (1598–1611 Died) * Onofre Reart (1611–1621 Resigned) * Pedro Moncada (1620–1621 Died) *

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(1622–1627 Died) * García Gil Manrique (1627–1633 Appointed,

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(1633–1655 Appointed,

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) * Bernardo Cardona (1656–1658 Died) * Francisco Pijoan (1659–1660 Died) * José Fageda,

(1660–1664 Appointed,

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) * José Ninot y Bardera (1664–1668 Appointed, Bishop of Lerida) * Alonso Francisco Dou (1668–1673 Died) * Alfonso de Balmaseda, O.S.A. (1673–1679 Confirmed, Bishop of Zamora) * Severo Tomás Auter, O.P. (1679–1686 Confirmed,

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) * Miguel Pontich, O.F.M. (1686–1699 Died) * Miguel Juan de Taverner y Rubí (1699–1720 Appointed,

) *José Taberner (Taverner) Dárdena (1720–1726 Died) *Pedro Copóns Copóns (1726–1728 Appointed,

) *Baltasar Bastero Lladó (1728–1745 Resigned) *Lorenzo Taranco Mujaurrieta (1745–1756 Died) *Manuel Antonio Palmero y Rallo (1756–1774 Died) *Tomás Lorenzana Butrón (1775–1796 Died) *Santiago Pérez Arenillas (1796–1797 Died) *Juan Agapito Ramírez Arellano (1798–1810 Died) *Pedro Valero (1815–1815 Died) *Antonio Allué y Sesse (1817–1818 Resigned) *Juan Miguel Pérez González (1819–1824 Died) *Dionisio Castaño y Bermúdez (1825–1834 Died) *Florencio Llorente y Montón (1847–1862 Died) *Constantino Bonet y Zanuy (1862–1875 Confirmed,

) *Isidoro Valls y Pascual (1875–1877 Died) *Tomás Sivilla y Gener (1877–1906 Died) *Francisco de Pol y Baralt (1906–1914 Died) *Francisco de Paula Mas y Oliver (1915–1920 Died) *Gabriel Llompart y Jaume Santandreu (1922–1925 Appointed, Bishop of Mallorca) *José Vila y Martínez (1925–1932 Died) *José Cartaña y Inglés (1933–1963 Died) *

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(1964–1971 Appointed,

) * Jaume Camprodon i Rovira (1973–2001 Retired) *Carles Soler Perdigó (2001–2008 Retired) * Francisco Pardo Artigas (2008–2022 Died)

References

Sources

Catholic Hierarchy

Diocese website
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