Villafranca Montes de Oca is a municipality, former medieval bishopric and present Latin
titular see
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Castile and León
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It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
, northern Spain. According to the 2005
census
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(
INE
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), the municipality has a population of 164 inhabitants.
Ecclesiastical history
, with incumbents
It was originally known as Oca (Latin: ''Auca'') and was the seat of a (Latin Catholic) bishopric, precursor of the present the
Third Council of Toledo, but vaguer notations may trace it back as early as the 3rd century AD. Monastic life flourished there during the Visigothic Catholic Kingdom of Toledo (6th-8th century).
However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at Amaya,
Valpuesta
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History
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Sasamón
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During pre-Roman times, it was the capital of the Turmodi ...
, Oña, Gamonal, only to have their 'see' formally suppressed to restore definitively the
Diocese of Burgos
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
in 1075, confirmed by Pope Urban II en 1095.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as a titular bishopric of Auca (Curiate Latin and Italian), Latin (adjective ''dioecesis) Aucen(sis)''.
Notable locals
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Juan Mata
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