The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salamanca ( la, Dioecesis Salmantina) is a
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
located in the city of
Salamanca
Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Her ...
in the
Ecclesiastical province
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of
Valladolid
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St. Secundus
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is said to have founded the
Diocese of Avila
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
. Signatures of bishops of Salamanca are found in the
Councils of Toledo
From the 5th century to the 7th century AD, about thirty synods, variously counted, were held at Toledo (''Concilia toletana'') in what would come to be part of Spain. The earliest, directed against Priscillianism, assembled in 400. The "thir ...
; in the third council is that of Eleutherius; at the coronation of King Gondemar, that of Teveristus; in the fourth and sixth of Hiccila; in the seventh, eighth and tenth, of Egeretus; in the Provincial Council of Mérida (metropolis of Salamanca) the signature of Justus;in the twelfth of Toledo that of Providentius; in the thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, of Holemund, probably contemporaneous with the Muslim invasion.
Alfonso I the Catholic pushed his conquests as far as Salamanca, and Ordoño I of Asturias captured the city, but its bishops continued to reside in
Asturias
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It is coextensi ...
, where the Church of San Julian, outside the walls of Oviedo, was assigned to them. Bishop Quindulfus (802) signed a royal deed of gift.
Ramiro II of León
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, who defeated the Muslim forces at
Simancas
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, began to repopulate Salamanca. In 1102 the king's son-in-law
Raymond, Count of Burgundy
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, and his wife Urraca of Castile, gave the churches of the city to Don Jerónimo, the count's master, and built the Cathedral of S. Maria. The celebrated bishop, comrade of the Cid Campeador, died in 1120 and was interred in the newly built basilica, to which he left the "Christ of the Battles" (Cristo de las Batallas).
Later bishops were:
*Gerardo; Munio, a partisan of Alfonso of Aragon;
*Berengario, consecrated in 1135 and transferred to
Santiago de Compostela
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Pope Celestine III
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and the sentence of the bishops presided over by Cardinal Guillermo in 1197.
From his period date the
university of Salamanca
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and the most ancient and famous convents of Dominicans,
Franciscans
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, and Clarisses. In October, 1310, the see being vacant, fifteen prelates of the ancient Province of Lusitania, presided over by the Archbishop of Santiago, assembled in the cathedral of Salamanca to try the case of the
Knights Templar
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, and found them innocent in Spain of all the atrocities with which they were charged.
Bishop Juan Lucero accompanied King Alfonso XI to the conquest of
Algeciras
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. Later on he became subservient to the caprices of Pedro I the Cruel and annulled (1354) his marriage with Blanche of Bourbon in order to unite him with Juana de Castro. Lucero's successor, Alsonso Barrasa, on the contrary, supported Henry of Trastamare against Pedro. In May, 1382, a council was held at Salamanca to take action in the matter of the schism of Avignon, and Castile decided in favour of the antipope. In another council (1410) Salamanca again recognized
Peter de Luna
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(Benedict XIII) as pope. At this time
Vincent Ferrer
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laboured to convert the Jews of Salamanca; from 1460 to 1478 John of Sahagun preached in the diocese.
Special churches
*Minor Basilicas:
** Basílica de Santa Teresa,
Alba de Tormes
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*Quindulf (c. 830)
*Duclidius I (c. 876)
*Sebastian I (c. 880)
*Fredesind (c. 898)
*Duclidius II (c. 921)
*Theodomund (c. 960)
*Salvatus (c. 973)
*Sebastian II (c. 987)
*Gonzalo I (c. 1022)
Leonese–Castilian period
*
Jerome
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(1102–1120)
*
Gerald
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Alonso Pérez
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While very little is known of his life, it is believed that he received some academic training. As with many ...
(1130–1131)
* Navarro (1133)
* Berengar (1135–1150), translated to Santiago de Compostela
*
Íñigo Navarro Íñigo Navarro (died 1158/9) was the Bishop of Coria from 1142 to 1151 and thereafter the Bishop of Salamanca until his death.
The main source for his early life is a single document from Segovia dated 1148. From this it is known that he held the ...
Diego
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Pedro Fechor
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Peter V Peter V may refer to:
* Patriarch Peter V of Alexandria (7th–8th centuries)
* Pope Peter V of Alexandria (ruled 1340–1348)
* Peter V of Aragon (IV of Barcelona) (1429–1466), Constable of Portugal and Grand Master of the Order of Aviz
* Peter ...
(1310–1324)
*
Bernardo Juan de Compostela
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(1324–1327)
*
Gonzalo González de Toledo
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* Hurricane Gonzalo, 2014
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Juan Lucero
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Career
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(1339–1361), translated to Segovia
*
Alfonso Barasaque
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Alonso de Carrillo
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Geographical distribution
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(apostolic administrator 1408), cardinal
* Gonzalo de Alba (1408–1412)
*
Alfonso de Cusanza
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(1412–1422)
*
Sancho López de Castilla
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(apostolic administrator 8 Jul 1482 – 15 Jan 1483), cardinal
* Diego Meléndez de Valdés (1483–1491), elect, never consecrated
* Hernando de Talavera (apostolic administrator 1483–1485), named bishop of Ávila
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Pedro Díaz de Toledo
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Bishop of Jaén
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Francisco Bobadilla
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Luis Cabeza de Vaca (died November 22, 1550) served as Bishop of Palencia, (1537–1550), Bishop of Salamanca (1530–1537), and Bishop of Islas Canarias (1523–1530). ''(in Latin)''Bishop of Palencia
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Rodrigo Mendoza Manrique
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(11 Jul 1537 Appointed – 4 Nov 1545 Died)
* Pedro Castro Lemos (20 Feb 1545 – 5 Jun 1555 Appointed,
Bishop of Cuenca
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Francisco Manrique de Lara
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Fernando Tricio Arenzana
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Diego Ordonez
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Bishop of Pamplona
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Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
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Francisco de Seijas Losada
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(20 Jun 1670 – 28 Apr 1681 Appointed,
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
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Antarctica
* Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land
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(7 Nov 1689 – 18 May 1693 Appointed,
Archbishop of Granada
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*Silvestre García Escalona (13 Jun 1714 – 20 Apr 1729 Died)
*José Sancho Granado (23 Dec 1729 – 30 Sep 1748 Died)
*José Zorrilla de Sanmartín (20 Jan 1749 – 30 Sep 1762 Died)
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Felipe Beltrán Serrano
Felipe Beltrán Serrano (1704–1783) was a Spanish churchman who was Bishop of Salamanca from 1763 to 1783 and Grand Inquisitor of Spain from 1775 to 1783.
Biography
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(18 Jul 1763 – 30 Nov 1783 Died)
*Andrés José Barco Espinosa (27 Jun 1785 A – 17 Apr 1794 Died)
*Felipe Antonio Fernández Vallejo (12 Sep 1794 – 18 Dec 1797 Appointed,
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Joaquín Lluch y Garriga
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, O.C.D. (13 Mar 1868 – 16 Jan 1874 Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona)
*Narciso Martínez Izquierdo (16 Jan 1874 – 27 Mar 1885 Appointed,
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Tomás Jenaro de Cámara y Castro Tomás may refer to:
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* Belarmino Tomás (1892–1950), ...
, O.S.A. (27 Mar 1885 – 17 May 1904 Died)
*Francisco Javier Valdés y Noriega, O.S.A. (14 Nov 1904 – 22 Jan 1913 Died)
*Julián de Diego y García Alcolea (18 Jul 1913 – 27 Jul 1923 Appointed, Patriarch of the West Indies)
*Ángel Regueras y López (26 Oct 1923 – 28 Dec 1924 Died)
*Francisco Frutos y Valiente (14 Dec 1925 – 24 Jan 1933 Died)
* Enrique Pla y Deniel (28 Jan 1935 – 31 Oct 1941 Appointed,
Archbishop of Toledo
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Braulio Rodríguez Plaza
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(12 May 1995 – 28 Aug 2002 Appointed, Archbishop of Valladolid)
*Carlos López Hernández (9 Jan 2003 – 15 Nov 2021 Retired)
*José Luis Retana Gozalo (15 Nov 2021 – present)
Roman Catholic Diocese of León in Spain
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Astorga
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Leonese language
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