The Diocese of Jaca is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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in the northeastern Spanish province of

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, part of the

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. The diocese is a suffragan in the

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of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela."Diocese of Jacao"
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''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 The territory of the Diocese of Jaca was originally administered by the

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, but after the Moorish conquest of

in 713 its bishops, (known as the itinerant "Bishops of Aragon"), moved to Aragon. The episcopal see was established in

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 ...

during 1063–96, then moved back to Huesca after king Pedro I of Aragon retook the city from the

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in November 1096. The Diocese of Jaca was created in 1572, carved out of the diocese of Huesca. Jaca cathedral is dedicated to aint Peter Consecrated in the late 11th century and altered in the 15th–18th centuries, it is Romanesque in its architectural style. The church of San Adrián de Sasabe, in Sasabe (also in Huesca province) was an earlier diocesan cathedral. A religious and civil festival is held on the first Friday of May, locally referred to as "''Primer Viernes de Mayo''", in memory of a victory said to have been won over the Moors in the 8th century by Count Aznar aided by the women of Jaca. It is celebrated with a solemn procession in which the entire cathedral chapter takes part. There are many

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ages around Jaca, but none more interesting than that of San Juan de la Peña, ensconced within a cave in the

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. This shrine was also a monastery, royal mausoleum and -allegedly- one of the many hiding places of the

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in the

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. It continues to be a stop along the Camino de Santiago for many pilgrims and tourists. In another cave, dedicated to La Virgen de la Cueva, locals gather annually to pay homage to "Our Lade of the Cave", a venerated shrine where Garcí Ximénez was proclaimed first King of Sobrarbe in the 8th century.

History

Jaca was once the capital of the

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, a tribe mentioned by Strabo. This territory was the scene of battles between

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and

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and later between Pompey's son Sextus and

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Itinerant bishops of Aragon (713–1063)

Ecclesiastically, Jaca originally belonged to the

. When in 713 the town of

was seized by the

, the bishop fled and the diocese was directed from Aragon by itinerant

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s, sometimes called bishops of Aragon, sometimes bishops of Huesca or Jaca, who lived either at Jaca or in the neighbouring monasteries of San Juan de la Peña, San Pedro de Siresa and San Adrián de Sasabe. Among the itinerant bishops of Aragon were: * c. 920: Iñigo * c. 922: Ferriolus * 933–947: Fortuño * 971–978: Aureolus * c. 981: Atón * 1011–1036: Mancius * 1036–1057: García * 1058–1075: Sancho

Jaca as seat of the bishops of Huesca (1063–1096)

* 1058–1075: Sancho * 1076–1086: García Ramírez * 1087–1097: Peter A council held at Jaca in 1063 determined anew the boundaries of the

, which thereafter included the present dioceses of Huesca, Jaca and

Barbastro Barbastro (Latin: ''Barbastrum'' or ''Civitas Barbastrensis'', Aragonese: ''Balbastro'') is a city in the Somontano county, province of Huesca, Spain. The city (also known originally as Barbastra or Bergiduna) is at the junction of the rivers Cin ...

, as well as a part of the Diocese of Lérida. Jaca was then made the permanent seat of the

. At the same time Sancho was appointed Bishop of Huesca (1058–1075) and hastened to request the Pope Alexander II to confirm the decisions of the council. In the same year of 1063, however, King Sancho Ramirez of Aragon (1063–1094) had won back from the Moors the city of

, and had granted it to the Bishop of Roda. García Ramírez, the new Bishop of Huesca (1076–1086) and brother of the king, regarded this as an infringement of the rights of jurisdiction granted the Bishop of Jaca by the Council of Jaca. He therefore renewed his petition to the new pope ( Gregory VII) to have the decisions of the council confirmed, which request the pope granted (cf. Jaffé, "Reg. Pont. Roman", I, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1885, n. 5098). As, however, Bishop Raimundo of Roda also obtained the confirmation of all his privileges from Gregory, a violent dispute arose between the Bishops of Huesca and Roda as to jurisdiction over the churches of Barbastro, Bielsa, Gistao and Alquezar, which in 1080 was decided by the king in favour of the Bishop of Roda.

The episcopal see returns to Huesca (1096–1572)

In November 1096, King Pedro I of Aragon took back

from the

and restored the original see. Pope Urban II decreed (May 11, 1098) that, instead of Jaca, Huesca should again be the seat of the bishop, as it had been until the year 713 (cf. Jaffé, "Reg. Pont. Roman", I, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1885, n. 5703). But Jaca itself had a separate existence under a vicar-general, independent of the Bishop of Huesca. It also retained its own cathedral chapter, which originally followed the Rule of St. Augustine, but in 1270 both this chapter and that of Huesca were secularized.

Diocese of Jaca (1572 to the present)

Jaca was again erected into a separate diocese and was made suffragan to the

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by a

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(July 18, 1571), which decision was carried into effect on February 26, 1572. The first bishop was Pedro del Frago. According to the diocesan statistics of 1907 Jaca possessed 73,659 inhabitants, 151 parishes, 151 parish churches, 239 public and 10 private oratories, 236 secular priests, 30 regulars and 54

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. The religious institutes in the diocese are: *

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, one

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and novitiate; *

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, 2 houses for the training of boys; *

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nuns, 1 convent and 18 professed sisters in the city of Jaca; * Sisters of Mercy of St. Anna, who have charge of the hospital at Jaca; * Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary, 1 house at Jaca; sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul, with a school at Jaca; * Little Sisters of the Aged Poor, with a home for the aged in a suburb of Jaca.

Bishops of Jaca (1572 to the present)

# 1572–1577: Pedro del Frago #* 1577: Juan Pérez de Arneda (elected, did not assume) # 1578–1583:

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# 1584–1592: Pedro de Aragón # 1592–1594: Diego de Monreal # 1594–1606: Malaquías de Aso # 1607–1614: Tomás Cortés de Sangüesa # 1614–1615: Diego Ordóñez # 1615–1616:

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# 1616–1617: Felipe Guimerán # 1617–1622: Luis Díez Aux de Armendáriz # 1623–1626: Juan Estelrich # 1627: José Palafox Palafox # 1628–1631: Álvaro de Mendoza (bishop)"Bishop Alvaro Mendoza, O.F.M."
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 24, 2016 # 1631–1635: Vicente Domec # 1635–1646: Mauro de Villarroel # 1647–1648: Juan Domingo Briz de Trujillo # 1649–1652: Jerónimo de Ipenza # 1655–1671: Bartolomé de Fontcalda # 1671–1673: Andrés Aznar Navés Rafael Lazcano, ''Episcopologio agustiniano''. Agustiniana. Guadarrama (Madrid) 2014, vol. I, 440-445 # 1673–1674: José de Santolaria # 1677–1683: Bernardo Mateo Sánchez de Castellar # 1683–1704: Miguel de Frías Espintel # 1705–1717: Mateo Foncillos Mozárabe # 1717–1720: Francisco Polanco # 1721–1727: Miguel Estela # 1728: Antonio Sarmiento # 1728–1733: Pedro Espinosa de los Monteros # 1734–1738: Ramón Nogués # 1739–1750: Juan Domingo Manzano Carvajal # 1751–1755: Esteban Vilanova Colomer # 1756–1776: Pascual López Estaún # 1777–1779:

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# 1780–1784: Julián Gascueña # 1785–1802: José Antonio López Gil # 1803–1814: Lorenzo Algüero Ribera # 1815–1822: Cristóbal Pérez Viala # 1824–1828: Leonardo Santander Villavicencio # 1829–1831: Pedro Rodríguez Miranda # 1832–1847:

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# 1848–1851:

Miguel García Cuesta Miguel García Cuesta (6 October 1803 in Macotera – 18 April 1873 in Santiago de Compostela) was a professor at the University of Salamanca, Bishop of Jaca (1848), Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1851), Senator for Life (1851) and C ...

# 1852–1856: Juan José Biec Belio # 1857–1870: Pedro Lucas Asensio Poves # 1874–1890: Ramón Fernández Lafita # 1891–1899: José López Mendoza y García # 1900–1904: Francisco Javier Valdés Noriega # 1904–1913: Antolín López Peláez # 1913–1920: Manuel de Castro Alonso # 1920–1925: Francisco Frutos Valiente # 1926–1943: Juan Villar Sanz # 1946–1950: José Bueno y Monreal # 1950–1978: Ángel Hidalgo Ibáñez # 1978–1983: Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá # 1984–1989:

Rosendo Álvarez Gastón Rosendo Álvarez Gastón (August 10, 1926–February 3, 2014) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1951, he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Jaca, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image ...

# 1990–2001: José María Conget Arizaleta #* 2001–2003:

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(Apostolic Administrator) # 2003–2009: Jesús Sanz Montes # 2010–: Julián Ruiz Martorell

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