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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria ( la, Oxomen(sis)–Sorian(a)) is a
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ecclesiastical territory or
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of the
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in northern
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. It is a suffragan diocese in the
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of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Burgos. Its
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episcopal see is Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción, dedicated to the
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, in El Burgo de Osma. It also has a co-cathedral, Concatedral de San Pedro, dedicated to St. Peter, in
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, and a
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: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Miagros Miagros, in
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, Soria, Castile and León, Spain.


History

* Established circa 600 as Diocese of Osma * Lost territory in 1077 to the
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* Renamed on 9 March 1959 as Diocese of Osma-Soria, as
Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial populati ...
gets a co-cathedral


Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 80,000 Catholics (85.8% of 93,291 total) on 10,287 km2 in 542 parishes and 19 missions with 128 priests (103 diocesan, 25 religious), 212 lay religious (38 brothers, 174 sisters) and 1 seminarian.


Episcopal ordinaries

:very incomplete : lacking first centuries ;''Bishops of Osma'' * Pedro de Bourges, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1101 – death 1109.08.02) * Raimundo (1109–1124), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1124 – death 1152) * Beltrán (1126 – death 1140.10.01) * Esteban (1141 – death 1147.09.01) * Juan (1148 – death 1174.04.28) * Bernardo (1174–1176) * Miguel, O.S.B. (1177–1184) * García (1185–1186) * Martín Bazán (1188 – death 1201.07.27) * Diego de Acebes (1201 – 1207.12.30) *
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(Spain) (1231 – death 1238.10.05) *
Juan de Soria Juan de Soria (died 1 October 1246), also known as Juan Díaz,Martín Alvira Cabrer, ''Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212: idea, liturgia y memoria de la batalla'', Sílex, Madrid, 2012, pp. 40-41 ISBN 978-84-7737-721-4 Juan Domínguez de Medina
(1231 – 1240.05.29), next Bishop of
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(Spain) (1353.02.13 – 1354.10.25) * Lorenzo Pérez (1362.12.13 – death 1367) * Pedro Gomez Barroso (19 July 1368 – 4 March 1373), next Bishop of Cuenca (Spain) (1373–1378) * Juan García Palomeque (4 March 1373 – death 1374), previously Bishop of
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(Spain) (1354.10.25 – 1373.03.04) * Juan de Villareal (1374 – death 1379.02.22) * Pedro Fernández de Frías (21 March 1379 – resigned? 1404), ''also/next'' Pseudocardinal-Priest of S. Prassede (1396? – 1412.09.23▼), Archpriest of Papal Basilica of St. Peter (1412 – 1420.09.19▼), promoted Pseudo
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(Spain) (1610.06.21 – death 1622.01.22) * Fernando Acevedo González (July 1610 – 2 June 1613), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (26 June 1600 – 1 October 1659) was a Spanish politician, administrator, and Catholic clergyman in 17th century Spain and a viceroy of Mexico. Palafox was the Bishop of Puebla (1640−1655), and the interim Archbisho ...
(24 November 1653 – 1 October 1659 Died) * Nicolás Martinez (bishop), O.S.H. (21 June 1660 – 1 Oct 1660 Died) * Alfonso Enríquez de Santo Tomás, O.P. (26 Sep 1661 – 28 Jan 1664 Confirmed, Bishop of Plasencia) * Pedro de Godoy, O.P. (31 March 1664 – 16 May 1672 Confirmed, Bishop of Sigüenza) * Antonio de Isla y Mena (8 August 1672 – 17 Dec 1681 Died) * Sebastián de Arévalo y Torres,
Order of Friars Minor The Order of Friars Minor (also called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. The order adheres to the teachi ...
(O.F.M.) (20 April 1682 – 20 Jan 1704 Died) * Jorge Cárdenas Valenzuela (1704 – 18 November 1705 Died) * Andrés Soto de la Fuente (22 March 1706 – 29 December 1714 Died) * Felipe Antonio Gil Taboada (5 July 1715 – 4 March 1720) * Miguel Herrero Esgueva (15 April 1720 – 20 January 1723) * Jacinto Valledor Fresno (12 April 1723 – 12 February 1730 Died) * José Barnuevo, O.S.B. (24 July 1730 – 25 July 1735 Died) * Pedro de la Cuadra Achica (1 April 1736 – 7 September 1741) * Juan Antonio Oruña (28 September 1744 – 4 March 1748 Died) * Pedro Clemente de Aróstegui (16 September 1747 – 29 August 1760) * Jacinto Aguado y Chacón (18 July 1762 – 27 March 1764) * Bernardo Antonio Calderón Lázaro (20 August 1764 – 15 October 1786) * Joaquín de Eleta, O.F.M. (27 December 1786 – 4 December 1788 Died) * José Constancio Andino (29 March 1790 – death Nov 1793) * Diego Melo Portugal,
Order of Saint Augustine The Order of Saint Augustine, ( la, Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini) abbreviated OSA, is a religious mendicant order of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1244 by bringing together several eremitical groups in the Tuscany region who were fo ...
(O.S.A.) (12 September 1794 – 18 December 1795) * Antonio Tavira Almazán (27 June 1796 – 14 August 1798) * Francisco Ignacio Iñigo Angulo (25 September 1798 – 8 January 1799) * Juan Moya, O.F.M. (28 March 1799 – 19 February 1801) * José Antonio Garnica,
Capuchin Franciscans The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM ...
(O.F.M. Cap.) (23 February 1801 – 10 January 1810) * Juan Cavia González (19 August 1814 – 23 December 1831) * Gregorio Sánchez y Jiménez (Rubio),
Hieronymites The Hieronymites, also formally known as the Order of Saint Jerome ( la, Ordo Sancti Hieronymi; abbreviated OSH), is a Catholic cloistered religious order and a common name for several congregations of hermit monks living according to the Rule o ...
(O.S.H.) (17 December 1847 – 27 September 1852) * Vicente Horcos y San Martín, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (27 September 1852 – 13 January 1861) * Pedro María Lagüera y Menezo (23 December 1861 – 1892) *
Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez Victoriano Guisasola y Menendez J.C.D. (21 April 1852 – 2 September 1920) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and an archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain. Early life and priesthood Victoriano Guisasola y Menendez was born in ...
(15 June 1893 – 19 April 1897) * José María García Escudero y Ubago (19 April 1897 – 22 March 1909) * Manuel Lago y González (25 August 1909 – 4 May 1917) * Matteo Múgica y Urrestarazu (22 February 1918 – 26 October 1923) * Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (18 December 1924 – 28 January 1935) * Tomás Gutiérrez Diez (1 April 1935 – 11 November 1943) * Saturnino Rubio y Montiél (9 December 1944 – 1959 ''see below'') ;''Suffragan Bishops of Osma-Soria'' * Saturnino Rubio y Montiél (''see above'' 1959 – 4 December 1969) * Teodoro Cardenal Fernández (1 December 1969 – 19 October 1983) * José Diéguez Reboredo (1 September 1984 – 15 May 1987) * Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (6 November 1987 – 12 May 1995) *
Francisco Pérez González Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...
(16 December 1995 – 30 October 2003) * Vicente Jiménez Zamora (21 May 2004 – 27 July 2007) * Gerardo Melgar Viciosa (1 May 2008 – 8 April 2016) * Abilio Martínez Varea (5 January 2017 – ...).


See also

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List of Catholic dioceses in Spain, Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar The diocesan system of the Catholic church government in Spain consists mainly of a nearly entirely Latin hierarchy of 70 territorial (arch)dioceses : * fourteen ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop (one of which, Tol ...
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References


Sources and external links


GCatholic.org, with Google map and satellite photo – data for all sections

Catholic Hierarchy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Osma-Soria, Roman Catholic Diocese * Roman Catholic dioceses in Spain Religious organizations established in 1200 Dioceses established in the 12th century