Valpuesta (Latin ''Valliposita'' or ''Valle Conposita'') was a Catholic diocese in Castile in northern Spain. Today it is a

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History

According to unreliable documents in the

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, the diocese was established in 804 as a

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of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tarragona. It was suppressed in 1087 and its territory merged into the then bishopric of Burgos (now a metropolitan Archdiocese).

List of bishops

* Juan (804) * Felimir (876–881) * Fredulf (884–890) * Diego I (900) * Diego II (929–957) * Martin (963–992) * Velasco (1008–1011) * Sancho (1011–1022) * Munio I (1024–1037) * Ato (1037–1049) * García (1049–1052) * Gómez (1052–1065) * Munio II (1065–1087)

Titular see of Valliposita

The diocese was nominally revived in 1969 as a

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of the lowest (episcopal) rank. It since has the following (near-)consecutive, so-far regular (not secular) incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank: * Louis La Ravoire Morrow,

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(S.D.B.) (born USA) (1969.10.31 – retired 1971.04.27) on emeritate as former Bishop of

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References

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Valliposita Valpuesta (Latin ''Valliposita'' or ''Valle Conposita'') was a Catholic diocese in Castile in northern Spain. Today it is a titular see. History According to unreliable documents in the cartularies of Valpuesta, the diocese was established in ...