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sees within Galicia, in north-western

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, and one of the four suffragans in the

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of the Metropolitan

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, in Lugo city. It also has a World Heritage Site : the Cistercian Monastery of Santa María, in Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coruña, Galicia.

Extent and statistics

As per 2012, it pastorally served 288,000 Catholics (99.2% of 290,200 total) on 7,703 km² in 1,139 parishes with 376 priests (315 diocesan, 61 religious), 318 lay religious (83 brothers, 235 sisters) and 7 seminarians. Its jurisdiction covers 1,138

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es in three administrative Spanish provinces : :*

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; one district with 56 parishes :*

Province of Pontevedra Pontevedra is a province of Spain along the country's Atlantic coast in southwestern Europe. The province forms the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, and Ourense, ...

; three districts with 135 parishes :*

Province of Lugo Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra, and A Coruña, the principality of Asturias, the State of León, and in th ...

; 947 parishes

History

* Established circa 100 AD as Diocese of Lugo / Lucen(sis) in Hispania (Latin) * Promoted in 569 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lugo / Lucen(sis) in Hispania (Latin) * Lost territory circa 572 to establish the Diocese of Bretoña * Suppressed in 713. * Restored in 745 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lugo / Lucen(sis) in Hispania (Latin), but held in personal union with the Metropolitan

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(Portugal) from 745 until its 1071 demotion, i.e. without a single proper incumbent * Lost territory in 811 to establish Diocese of Oviedo, gained territory in 832 from the suppressed Diocese of Orense. * Lost territories in 866 to establish Diocese of San Martiño de Mondoñedo and in 886 to (re)establish Diocese of Orense * Demoted in 1071 as Suffragan Diocese of Lugo / Lucen(sis) in Hispania (Latin), having gained territory from Diocese of Oviedo * Gained territory on 1954.10.17 from Diocese of Oviedo, and exchanged territories with Diocese of Astorga,

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and Diocese of Orense.

Episcopal Ordinaries of Lugo

;''Suffragan Bishops of Lugo (initial period) :First period unavailable ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Lugo'' : always the Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Portugal) (745–1063) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Lugo (again) *''

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'' Vistrário (1071–1086), previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga (Portugal) (1060–1071) and last Metropolitan Archbishop of Lugo (1060–1071) * Amor (1088–1096) * Pedro = Peter II (''c''. 1098 – 1113) * Pedro = Peter III (1113?14 – 1133) * Guido = uy (1134?35 – 1152) * Juan = John (1152–1181) * Rodrigo I Menéndez (1181–1182) * Rodrigo II Menéndez (1182–1218) * Ordoño (1218–1226) * Miguel (1226–1270) * Fernando Arias (1270–1276), later Bishop of Tui (Spain) (1278–1285) * Juan Martínez (1277–1281) * Alonso Yáñez (1281–1284) * Arias Soga (1284–1286) * Fernando Arias Pérez de Páramo (1286–1294) * Arias Medín (1294 – death 1299?1300)"Bishop Arias Medín"
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(O.P.) (28 Jan 1349 – )"Bishop Pedro López de Aguiar, O.P."
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(Spain) (1461.10.19 – death 1479.01.20) * García Martínez de Baamonde (''see above'' 1447–1475) * Alonso Enríquez de Lemos (1476–1495) * Alonso Suárez de la Fuente del Sauce (1496–1500), next Bishop of Jaén (1500–1522); previously Bishop of

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(7 Feb 1500 – 26 June 1500), next Bishop of Catania (

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(9 Sep 1539 – 10 March 1561 Retired), died 1584"Bishop Juan Suárez Carvajal"
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(Spain) (1611.09.12 – death 1611.09.28) * Juan García Valdemora (27 August 1603 – 16 July 1612), next Bishop of Tui (1612.07.16 – death 1620.08.15) * Alfonso López Gallo (17 Sep 1612 – 29 May 1624), next Bishop of

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(1624.05.29 – death 1627.07.01) * Diego Vela Becerril (29 July 1624 – 2 August 1632), next Bishop of Tui (1632.08.02 – death 1635.05.17) * Juan del Águila Velázquez (24 Nov 1632 – 17 Feb 1633 Died) * Diego Castejón Fonseca (9 Jan 1634 – 1 May 1636 resigned), next Bishop of

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(Spain) (1644.05.23 – death 1655.02.19) * Juan Vélez de Valdivielso (9 June 1636 – 25 Feb 1641), next

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(12 August 1641 – 31 March 1642 Died) *

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(24 Jan 1650 – death 14 July 1651) *

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(4 March 1652 – 7 June 1660), next Bishop of León) * Andrés Girón (21 June 1660 – 28 April 1664), next Bishop of

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(Dominicans, O.P.) (16 Sep 1748 – death 6 Jan 1762) * Juan Sáenz de Bururaga (14 June 1762 – 25 Jan 1768), next Archbishop of

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(1768.06.25 – death 1777.05.13) * Francisco Armañá Font,

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(O.S.A.) (20 June 1768 – 14 Feb 1785), next Archbishop of

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(1785.02.14 – death 1803.05.05) * Antonio Paramo Somoza (10 Dec 1785 – death 8 March 1786) * Felipe Pelaez Caunedo (18 Dec 1786 – death 9 July 1811) * José Antonio Azpeitia y Sáenz de Santamaria (19 Dec 1814 – 21 March 1825), next Bishop of Cartagena (en España) (

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1825.03.24 – death 1840.11.01) * Hipólito Antonio Sánchez Rangel de Fayas,

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(O.F.M.) (21 March 1825 – 29 April 1839 Died); previously Bishop of Maynas (

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of Diocese of Cartagena (Spain) (1824.09.28 – 1825.03.21) * Santiago Rodríguez Gil, Dominicans (O.P.) (17 Dec 1847 – death 7 April 1857) * José Ríos de los Lamadrid (25 Sep 1857 – death 8 March 1884) * Gregorio María Aguirre y García, O.F.M. (27 March 1885 – 21 May 1894), next Archbishop of

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(1894.05.21 – 1909.04.29),

of Calahorra y La Calzada (Spain) (1899.12.02 – 1909.04.29), created

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of Pelusium (1927.07.30 – death 1941.02.12); previously Titular Bishop of Hamatha (1917.01.18 – 1919.12.18) and

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of Diocese of Jaén (Spain) (1917.01.18 – 1919.12.18) * Rafael Balanzá y Navarro (2 March 1928 – death 29 Sep 1960), also Apostolic Administrator of

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(1923.08.13 – 1928.03.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(1956.03.27 – 1961.05.24) and Auxiliary Bishop of Lugo (1956.03.27 – 1961.05.24) *

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References

Sources and external links

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Official Web-site of the Diocese of Lugo
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Catholic Hierarchy - Diocese of Lugo
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List of Spanish Dioceses
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Official Web-site of the Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
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Official Web-site of the Diocese of Ourense
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Official Web-site of the Diocese of Tui-Vigo
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Extent and statistics

History

Episcopal Ordinaries of Lugo

See also

References

Sources and external links