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Diego de Acebo (also known as ''Diaz de Osma'', ''Alphonsus Didacus'', ''Didacus Acebes'') was
bishop of Osma The Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria ( la, Oxomen(sis)–Sorian(a)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Spain. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolita ...
(Castile, Spain) from 1201 to 1207.


Life

Diego de Acebo was prior of the cathedral chapter of the ''Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción'' in
El Burgo de Osma Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma is the third-largest municipality in the province of Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It has a population of about 5,250. It is made up of two parts: *the smaller Ciudad de Osma (city ...
, where
Dominic of Osma Saint Dominic, ( es, Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilian Catholic priest, mystic, the founder of the Dominican Order and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scient ...
became a
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. De Acebo was named
Bishop of Osma The Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria ( la, Oxomen(sis)–Sorian(a)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Spain. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolita ...
in 1201. As bishop, he reformed the canonry according to the Rule of St. Augustine. Accompanied by the future
Saint Dominic Saint Dominic ( es, Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilian Catholic priest, mystic, the founder of the Dominican Order and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientis ...
, Diego travelled ''ad Marchias Daciae'' (to
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) in 1203 or 1204 to secure a bride for crown prince Ferdinand, son of
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. They made a second journey in 1204 or 1205 intending to bring the girl back with them, but found that she had meanwhile died. They returned by way of Rome, where Diego unsuccessfully petitioned
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to be entrusted with a mission to the northern pagans. Instead, continuing their journey via Cîteaux, Diego and Dominic began the work of conversion of the
Cathars Catharism (; from the grc, καθαροί, katharoi, "the pure ones") was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement between the 12th and 14th centuries which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France. Fol ...
. In 1206 Bishop de Acebo became the unofficial leader of a papal mission to Languedoc, in southern France. Diego was instrumental in the foundation of
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and took part in the early Cathar-Catholic debates at Verfeil, and
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, In 1207 he participated in a religious conference with
Durand of Huesca Durand of Huesca ( 1160 – 1224) was a Spanish Waldensian, who converted in 1207 to Catholicism. Durand had been a disciple of Peter Waldo, who had been excommunicated in 1184. Around the early 1190s Durand wrote ''Liber Antihaeresis'' against th ...
and other Waldenses at
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which resulted in Durand and his group returning to the Catholic Church.Little, Lester K., ''Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe'', Cornell University Press, 1983, p.127
Soon afterwards Acebo was ordered by the Pope to return to his diocese, where he died on 30 December 1207.


Notes


Bibliography

* M.-H. Vicaire, "Une ambassade dans les Marches" in
Pierre Mandonnet Pierre Mandonnet (26 February 1858 – 4 January 1936) was a French-born, Belgian Dominican historian, important in the neo-Thomist trend of historiography and the recovery of medieval philosophy. He made his reputation with a study of Sige ...
, ''Saint Dominique: l'idée, l'homme et l'oeuvre'' (Paris: Desclée De Brouwer, 1938) vol. 1 pp. 89–98. 1207 deaths Bishops of Osma Catharism 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Castile Year of birth unknown {{theologian-stub