The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic ( la, diocoesis Vicen(sis)) is a
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, 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 Roman province, pro ...
with its seat in the city of
Vic
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Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
basilica
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dedicated to
Saint Peter
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.
History
A diocese was first established at Vic in the fifth century. After the
Islamic conquest of Spain
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in 711, the diocese was abandoned.
The diocese was re-established in 886, shortly after the official re-settlement of the
Plain of Vic
The Plain of Vic (Catalan ''Plana de Vic'') is a 30 km long depression located at the eastern end of the Catalan Central Depression in the Osona comarca. It is named after the town of Vic, an important and ancient urban center in this natur ...
had begun in 878. According to one theory, the new diocese was a product of the initiative of the
Sunyer II Sunyer (Catalan) or Suñer/Suniario (Spanish), from Latin ''Suniarius'', possibly from Proto-Germanic
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bishop of Girona
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archdiocese of Narbonne
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to accept it as a suffragan. Although Vic was the traditional capital of the
County of Osona
The County of Osona, also Ausona ( ca, Comtat d'Osona, ; la, Comitatus Ausonae), was one of the Catalan counties of the '' Marca Hispanica'' in the Early and High Middle Ages. It was based around the capital city of Vic (''Vicus'') and the corre ...
, the county and the bishopric were not coterminous. The monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, one of the most important in the diocese, lay within the
County of Besalú The County of Besalú ( ca, Comtat de Besalú, ; la, Comitatus Bisuldunensis) was one of the landlocked medieval Catalan counties near the Mediterranean coastline. It was roughly coterminous with the modern ''comarca'' of Garrotxa and at various t ...
. So long as the counts of Osona were also
counts of Barcelona
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, they appointed viscounts to rule in Osona, and these usually resided at the castle of Cardona in the diocese of Urgell. As a result, the bishops of Vic came to control the city itself, blending public, private and ecclesiastical power there.
There is a surviving charter of King Odo dated 889, in which the king appears to grant the count of Osona to the bishop, but most of the text is of a later date and is unreliable. The king did grant the fortress at Artés to the bishop, as well as one third of public revenue in the county. By 911, when the will of Count Wifred II granted a third of the profits of the mints in Osona to the bishop, the latter had already replaced the viscount as the most powerful person in the county. During the reign of Louis IV (936–54), the bishop of Vic received royal confirmation of his monetary right. In 957, without any authority to do so, the bishop began keeping back all the profits of the mints for the church. Throughout the 10th century the counts of Osona sought to re-settle the west of the county and fortify the frontier. To this end they granted many frontier castles to the bishop to hold.
Manresa
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Bishops
Medieval period
*886–899 Gotmar, first bishop of the restored diocese
*899–914 Idalguer
*914–947
Jordi
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Jordi may also refer to:
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*948–957
Guadamir Guadamir ( la, Wadimirus, Wadamirus; died 14 June 957) was the bishop of Vic from 948 until his death.
Prior to Guadimir, the cathedral chapter
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Arnulf
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It is composed of the Germanic elements ''arn'' "eagle" and ''ulf'' "wolf".
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*1010–1017
Borrell Borrell () is a common surname in modern Catalan language, and was also a given name in the past. It can refer to:
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* Borrell of Ausona ( ...
Guillem Berenguer Guillem () is a Catalan first name, equivalent to William in the English language, which occasionally can appear as a surname. Its origin and pronunciation are the same as its Occitan variant ''Guilhèm'', with a different spelling.
People with th ...
Jordi d'Ornós
Jordi d'Ornós ( es, Jorge, la, Georgius, George; c. 1380 – 1452) was a Catalans, Catalan prelate, diplomat and jurist. He served as bishop of Vic from 1424 until he stepped aside in 1445. He then served as bishop of Carpentras from 1449 until h ...
Patriarch
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Josep Torras i Bages
Josep Torras i Bages (), born at Les Cabanyes, Alt Penedès, on 12 September 1846, died at Vic, Osona, on 7 February 1916, was a Catalan thinker, writer, and bishop. He was one of the main figures in the turn of the 20th century Catholic Catalan ...
O. de M.
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Jaume Mas Jaume Mas was the Bishop of Vic in Tarragona
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O.S.H.
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Benet de Tocco Benet or Benét refers to:
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Sant Jaume de Vallverd
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