The Roman Catholic Diocese of Beja ( la, Dioecesis Beiensis) is a
suffragan of the
archdiocese of Évora
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
.
History
Beja lies on the site of
Pax Julia ''Pax Iulia'' (also known as ''Colonia Civitas Pacensis'') was a city in the Roman province of Lusitania (today situated in the Portuguese municipality of Beja).
History
The region was inhabited during 400 BC by Celtic tribes, but there are indic ...
, or Paca, of the Romans, and is still surrounded by remains of old Roman walls, partly restored. The diocese was created 10 June 1770. Beja was taken from its Islamic rulers in 1162 by
Afonso I of Portugal
Afonso I of PortugalOr also ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonso'' (Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' ( Latin version), sometimes rendered in English as ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse'', depending on the Spanish or French in ...
.
Beja Cathedral is an old church, much modernized, of uncertain date.
The chronicler
Isidorus Pacensis
The ''Chronicle of 754'' (also called the ''Mozarabic Chronicle'' or ''Continuatio Hispana'') is a Latin-language history in 95 sections, written by an anonymous Mozarab (Christian) chronicler in Al-Andalus. The ''Chronicle'' contains the earli ...
, of the eighth century, was traditionally said to have been bishop of Beja; but this is now disputed.
[S. M. Imamuddin, ''Muslim Spain 711-1492 A.D.: A Sociological Study'' (1981), p. 19.]
See also
*
Catholic Church in Portugal
References
External links
Official page
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Beja
Beja, Roman Catholic Diocese of