The Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón (

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, ''Segobiensis''; ''Castellionensis'', ca-valencia, Diòcesi de Sogorb-Castelló) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern

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, in the

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of Castellón, part of the

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. The diocese forms part of the

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of Valencia, and is thus suffragan to the Archdiocese of Valencia.

History

No name of any Bishop of Segorbe is known earlier than Proculus, who signed in the

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(589). He was followed by a succession of bishop until Anterius, who attended the

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(688) and the sixteenth (693). After this, there is no information of its bishops until the Arab invasion, when its church was converted into a

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. In 1172

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, second son of the Lord of Estella, held the city of

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, and succeeded in establishing there a bishop. Pedro's refusal to recognise Aragonese sovereignty extended to his bishop, Martin, who refused to recognise the supremacy of the

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, though ordered to do so by the pope. Instead, Martin swore allegiance to the

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. Four years later, Martin took instead the title of Bishop of

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."Nuestra historia", Obispado Segorbe Castellon
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. In this way, the city of Albarracín became the seat of the bishops of Segorbe. When Segorbe was conquered by the king

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in 1245, the cathedral seat was relocated from Albarracín to Segorbe. There arose serious territorial disputes with the Archdiocese of Valencia which claimed rights over several churches in Segorbe. The Bishop of Valencia, Arnau of Peralta, entered the church of Segorbe by force and expelled the prelate. The controversy being referred to

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, Rome agreed with the Bishop of Segorbe-Albarracín. In 1318 Pope John XXII raised the see of Zaragoza to an Archdiocese, with the diocese of Segorbe-Albarracín as a suffragan. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady of Segorbe, once a

, was reconsecrated in 1534, and in 1795 the nave was lengthened, and new altars added, in the episcopate of Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo.Amadó,Ramón Ruiz. "Segorbe." The Catholic Encyclopedia
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, at the urging of Philip II of Spain, separated Albarracín and Segorbe. The terms of the papal bull specified that Segorbe belonged to the Kingdom of Valencia and Albarracín to that of Aragón. The order was well received in Albarracín, but not in Segorbe. The new bishopric of Albarracín was proclaimed a suffragan of Zaragoza, while that of Segorbe was of Valencia. In 1960 the

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became the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón. Following the ''De mutatione finium Dioecesium Valentinae-Segorbicensis-Dertotensis'' decree, of 31 May 1960, the parishes belonging to the

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were dismembered and aggregated to the Archdiocese of Valencia. On the other hand, the

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, Castelló de la Plana,

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and Albocàsser parishes that had belonged to the

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Present day

The Cathedral was elevated to the rank of

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in 1985. Its time-stained tower and its cloister are built on a trapezoidal ground plan. It is connected by a bridge with the old episcopal palace. The Cathedral Museum is located in the upper cloister and its adjacent rooms."Segorbe Cathedral Museum", ''Spain is Culture'', Ministry of Culture and Sport
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Bishops of Segorbe (6th and 7th centuries)

* c. 589: Proculus (Mentioned in the

of 589) * c. 610: Porcarius (Mentioned in the Council of Gundemar of 610) * c. 633: Antonius (Mentioned in the

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of 633) * c. 646: Floridius (Mentioned in the

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of 646) * c. 655: Eusicius (Mentioned in the Ninth and Tenth

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of 655 and 656) * c. 680: Memorius (Mentioned in the

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and twelfth

of 675 and 681) * c. 683: Olipa (Mentioned in the

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and sixteenth

of 688 and 693) ''Episcopal see suppressed (unknown–1173)''

Bishops of Segorbe (1173–1259)

''Bishops of Segorbe with seat in

.'' All the names are given in

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: # 1173–1213: Martín # 1213–1215: Hispano # 1216–1222: Juan Gil # 1223–1234: Domingo # 1235–1238: Guillermo # 1245–1246: Jimeno # 1246–1259: Pedro

Bishops of Segorbe-Albarracín (1259–1576)

All the names are given in

: # 1259–1265: Martín Álvarez # 1265–1272: Pedro Garcés # 1272–1277: Pedro Jiménez de Segura # 1284–1288: Miguel Sánchez # 1288–1301: Aparicio # 1302–1318: Antonio Muñoz # 1319–1356: Sancho Dull # 1356–1362: Elías # 1362–1369: Juan Martínez de Barcelona # 1369–1387: Iñigo de Valterra # 1387–1400: Diego de Heredia # 1400–1409: Francisco Riquer y Bastero # 1410–1427: Juan de Tauste # 1428–1437: Francisco de Aguiló # 1438–1445: Jaime Gerart # 1445–1454: Gisberto Pardo de la Casta # 1455–1459: Luis de Milá y Borja # 1461–1473: Pedro Baldó # 1473–1498:

Bartolomé Martí Bartolomé Martí (died 1500) (called the Cardinal of Segorbe) was a Spanish Catholic bishop and cardinal. Biography Bartolomé Martí was born in Valencia, ca. 1430-40. Early in his career, he became the majordomo of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i ...

# 1498–1499: Juan Marrades # 1500–1530: Gilberto Martí # 1530–1556: Gaspar Jofre de Borja # 1556–1571: Juan de Muñatones # 1571–1576: Francisco de Soto Salazar

Bishops of Segorbe (1577–1960)

# 1577–1578: Francisco Sancho # 1579–1582: Gil Ruiz de Liori # 1583–1591: Martín de Salvatierra # 1591–1597: Juan Bautista Pérez Rubert # 1599–1609: Feliciano de Figueroa # 1610–1635: Pedro Ginés de Casanova # 1636–1638: Juan Bautista Pellicer # 1639–1652: Diego Serrano de Sotomayor # 1652–1660: Francisco Gavaldá # 1661–1672: Anastasio Vives de Rocamora # 1673–1679: José Sanchís y Ferrandis # 1680–1691: Crisóstomo Royo de Castellví # 1691–1707: Antonio Ferrer y Milán # 1708–1714: Rodrigo Marín Rubio # 1714–1730: Diego Muños de Baquerizo # 1731–1748: Francisco de Cepeda y Guerrero # 1749–1751: Francisco Cuartero # 1751–1757: Pedro Fernández Velarde # 1758–1770: Blas de Arganda # 1770–1780: Alonso Cano # 1780–1781: Lorenzo Lay Anzano # 1783–1808: Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo # 1814–1816: Lorenzo Algüero Ribera # 1816–1821: Francisco de la Dueña Cisneros #* 1822–1824: Vicente Ramos García (Elected) # 1825–1837: Juan Sanz Palanco # 1847–1864: Domingo Canubio y Alberto # 1865–1868: Joaquín Hernández Herrero # 1868–1875: José Luis Montagut # 1876–1880: Mariano Miguel Gómez # 1880–1899: Francisco Aguilar # 1900–1907: Manuel García Cerero y Soler # 1907–1911: Antonio María Massanet # 1913–1934:

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# 1936–1936:

Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats (11 January 1868 - 9 August 1936) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic church and Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón, Sergorbe. Biography Serra was born on the 11 January 1868 i ...

# 1944–1950: Ramón Sanahuja y Marcé # 1951–1960: José Pont y Gol

Bishops of Segorbe-Castellón (since 1960)

# 1960–1970: José Pont y Gol # 1971–1996: José María Cases Deordal # 1996–2005: Juan Antonio Reig Pla # 2006–today: Casimiro López Llorente

References

Sources

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