Sasabe (or Sasave), a small place near

Jaca Jaca (; in Aragonese: ''Chaca'' or ''Xaca'') is a city of northeastern Spain in the province of Huesca, located near the Pyrenees and the border with France. Jaca is an ancient fort on the Aragón River, situated at the crossing of two great ea ...

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region, Spain is an ermitage that became a former semi-itinerant bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic

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Ecclesiastical history

The Ermita de San Adrián de Sasabe ( es, Monasterio de San Adrián de Sasabe), a former hermitage or monastery in Sasabe, established in the 9th century, of which only the small Romanesque church now survives, was one of three monasteries (along San Juan de la Peña and

San Pedro de Siresa The Abbey of San Pedro de Siresa ( an, Monesterio de Sant Per de Ciresa, es, Monasterio de San Pedro de Siresa) is a monastery in the Valle de Hecho, (Aragon, Spain). It was constructed between the 9th and 13th centuries, and is the northernmost ...

) near

where, as well as in that city, the itinerant 'Bishops of Aragon' (or of Huesca or of Jaca) used to reside, who held the

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of the Ancient

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after its destruction in the Moorish conquest. In 922 a bishopric was established,

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of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tarragon, with the title Diocese of Sasabe (Curiate Italian) / Sasaben(sis) (Latin adjective), assigning territory split off from the

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. In the eleventh century, the monastery church of San Adrián de Sasabe was a

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as the episcopal seat of this future

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before construction of the cathedral of Jaca. In 1077 the bishopric was suppressed, its territory being reassigned to establish the

Bishops of Sasabe

* Ferriolus (c. 922) * Fortuño (933–947) * Aureolus (971–978) * Atón (c. 981) * Mancius = Mancio (1011? – 1036) * Garcia (1036–1057) * Sancho (1058–1075).

Titular see

In 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as

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of Sasabe (Curiate Italian) / Sasaben(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, ''with an archiepiscopal exception : * Santo Bergamo (1969.12.15 – 1971.11.18) as

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(Italy) (1969.12.15 – 1971.11.18), later Apostolic Administrator of

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(Italy) (1971.11.18 – 1979.06.10), succeeding as Bishop of restyled bishopric Oppido Mamertina–Palmi (1979.06.10 – death 1980.10.11) * Alphonse Gallegos,

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(O.A.R.) (1981.08.24 – death 1991.10.06) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(California, USA) (1981.08.24 – 1991.10.06) * Julián Barrio Barrio (1992.12.31 – 1996.01.05) as Auxiliary Bishop of

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...

(Spain) (1992.12.31 – 1996.01.05), later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of (Santiago de) Compostela (1996.01.05 – ...) * Juan José Omella Omella (1996.07.15 – 1999.10.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Spain) (1996.07.15 – 1999.10.29); later Bishop of Barbastro–Monzón (Spain) (1999.10.29 – 2004.04.08), Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada–Logroño (Spain) (2004.04.08 – 2015.11.06), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Catalonia, Spain) (2015.11.06 – ...) *Titular Archbishop

Giacomo Guido Ottonello Giacomo Guido Ottonello (born 29 August 1946) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia from 2017 to 2021 and Nuncio to Ecuador from 200 ...

(1999.11.29 – ...)

Sources and external links

GCatholic - Sasabe (titular) bishopric, with Google satellite photo

Gallery

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