Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
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The Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol (also known as "Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis") is one of the five districts in which the Roman Catholic church divides Galicia in North-western Spain. The bishop who has two Cathedrals (i.e.: from Latin "cathedra" meaning seat, so two "seats") one in Ferrol and the other in Mondoñedo has jurisdiction over the most northern parishes of Galicia; covering the parishes of the northern part of the Province of A Coruña and the Province of Lugo. [1][2] The area had previously been home to Britonia, a settlement founded by expatriate Britons in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. Britonia was represented by the diocese referred to as Britonensis ecclesia (British church) in sources from the 6th and 7th centuries.
[edit] Leadership
[edit] Bishops of Britonia (Bretoña)
[edit] Bishops of Dumio (Dumium, San Martiño)
[edit] Bishops of Vilamaior
- Pelayo I (1136–1154)
- Pedro I (1155–1167)
- Joán Pérez (1170–1173)
- Rabinato (1177–1199)
[edit] Bishop of Ribadeo
[edit] Bishops of Mondoñedo
- Martiño (1219–1248)
- Joán II de Sebastiáns (1248–1261)
- Nuño II Pérez (1261–1286)
- Álvaro Gómez (1286–1297)
- Rodrigo Vázquez (1298–1318)
- Gonzalo (1319–1326)
- Joán III (1327–1329)
- Álvaro Pérez de Biezma (1326-13431)
- Vasco (1343–1346)
- Alfonso Sánchez (1347–1366)
- Francisco I (1367–1393)
- Lope de Mendoza (1393–1399)
- Álvaro de Isorna (1400-14151)
- Gil Soutelo (1415–1425)
- Gil Rodríguez de Muros (1429–1432)
- Pedro Henríquez (1426–1445)
- Pedro Arias Vaamonde (1446–1448)
- Alfonso de Segura (1449–1455)
- Alfonso Vázquez de Acuña (1455–1457, appointed Bishop of Jaén)
- Fadrique de Guzmán (1452-1492?)
- Alonso Suárez de la Fuente del Sauce (1493–1495, appointed Bishop of Lugo)
- Pedro de Munébrega (1498–1504)
- Diego de Muros † (4 Apr 1505 Appointed - 1 Oct 1512 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
- Diego Pérez Villamuriel † (1 Oct 1512 Appointed - 1520 Died)
- Jerónimo Suárez Maldonado † (10 Jul 1525 Appointed - 20 Mar 1532 Appointed, Bishop of Badajoz)
- Pedro Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara † (6 Sep 1532 Appointed - 11 Apr 1537 Appointed, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo)
- Antonio Guevara Noroña, O.F.M. † (11 Apr 1537 Appointed - 3 Apr 1545 Died)
- Diego Soto Valera † (27 Nov 1545 Appointed - 21 Aug 1549 Died)
- Francisco de Santa María Benavides Velasco, O.S.H. † (17 Jul 1550 Appointed - 21 Oct 1558 Appointed, Bishop of Segovia)
- Pedro Maldonado, O.F.M. † (23 Jan 1559 Appointed - 2 Jul 1566 Died)
- Gonzalo de Solórzano † (13 Jan 1567 Appointed - 18 Feb 1570 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
- Antonio Luján Luján, O.F.M. † (20 Feb 1570 Appointed - 7 Oct 1570 Died)
- Juan de Liermo Hermosa † (4 Jun 1574 Appointed - 26 Jul 1582 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela)
- Isidoro Caja de la Jara † (20 Dec 1582 Appointed - 26 May 1593 Died)
- Gonzalo Gutiérrez Montilla † (16 Nov 1593 Appointed - 18 Sep 1598 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
- Diego González Samaniego † (1 Feb 1599 Appointed - 22 Oct 1611 Died)
- Alfonso Mesía de Tovar † (18 Jun 1612 Appointed - 27 Jan 1616 Appointed, Bishop of Astorga)
- Pedro Fernández Zorrilla † (23 Mar 1616 Appointed - 23 Jul 1618 Appointed, Bishop of Badajoz)
- Rafael Díaz de Cabrera, O.SS.T. † (6 Aug 1618 Appointed - 30 Sep 1630 Died)
- Francisco Villafañe † (12 May 1631 Appointed - 5 Sep 1633 Appointed, Bishop of Osma)
- Antonio Valdés Herrera † (19 Dec 1633 Appointed - 23 Jun 1636 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Somoza Quiroga † (21 Jun 1638 Appointed - 14 Aug 1644 Died)
- Juan Juániz de Echalar † (31 Jul 1645 Appointed - 16 Dec 1647 Appointed, Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada)
- Francisco Torres Grijalba, O.S.A. † (13 Jan 1648 Appointed - 4 Sep 1672 Died)
- Juan Antonio Muñoz Salcedo, O.S.H. † ( 1705 Ordained Bishop - 5 May 1728 Died)
- Gabriel Frieberg, O.S.B. † (21 Sep 1728 Appointed - 18 Oct 1751 Died)
- Juan Manuel Escobar Carrera † (24 Apr 1752 Appointed - 27 Jul 1752 Died)
- Carlos Antonio Riomol Quiroga † (17 Nov 1752 Appointed - 1 Mar 1761 Died)
- José Francisco Losada Quiroga † (23 Nov 1761 Appointed - 30 Jun 1779 Died)
- Francisco Cuadrillero Mota † (11 Dec 1780 Appointed - 23 Mar 1797 Died)
- Andrés Aguiar Caamaño † (18 Dec 1797 Appointed - 12 Nov 1815 Died)
- Bartolomé Cienfuegos † (22 Jul 1816 Appointed - 22 Jan 1827 Died)
- Franciso López Borricón † (25 Jun 1827 Appointed - 10 Dec 1839 Died)
- Tomás Iglesias Bárcones † (20 May 1850 Appointed - 28 Nov 1851 Appointed, Patriarch of West Indies)
- Telmo Maceira † (27 Sep 1852 Appointed - 28 Sep 1855 Appointed, Bishop of Tui)
- Ponciano Arciniega † (25 Sep 1857 Appointed - 3 Sep 1868 Died)
- Francisco de Sales Crespo y Bautista † (5 Jul 1875 Appointed - 18 Feb 1877 Died)
- José Manuel Palacios y López † (25 Jun 1877 Appointed - 2 Dec 1885 Died)
- José María Cos y Macho † (10 Jun 1886 Appointed - 14 Feb 1889 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba)
- Manuel Fernández de Castro y Menéndez † (30 Dec 1889 Appointed - 27 Jun 1905 Died)
- Juan José Solís y Fernández † (14 Dec 1905 Appointed - 24 Feb 1931 Died)
- Benjamín de Arriba y Castro † (1 May 1935 Appointed - 8 Aug 1944 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
- Fernando Quiroga y Palacios † (25 Nov 1945 Appointed - 4 Jun 1949 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela)
- Mariano Vega Mestre † (5 Oct 1950 Appointed - 25 Apr 1957 Died)
[edit] Bishops of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
- Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea † (12 Sep 1957 Appointed - 18 Nov 1968 Appointed, Bishop of San Sebastián)
- Miguel Angel Araújo Iglesias † (2 Jul 1970 Appointed - 20 May 1985 Resigned)
- José Gea Escolano (15 May 1987 Appointed - 6 Jun 2005 Retired)
- Manuel Sánchez Monge (6 Jun 2005 Appointed - )
Coordinates for both cathedrals:
[edit] List of Parishes by District
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 Districts of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol |
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| Province of Barcelona |
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| Province of Burgos |
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| Province of Granada |
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| Province of Madrid |
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| Province of Mérida-Badajoz |
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| Province of Oviedo |
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| Province of Pamplona |
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| Province of Seville |
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| Province of Tarragona |
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| Province of Toledo |
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| Province of Valencia |
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| Province of Valladolid |
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| Province of Zaragoza |
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| Military Ordinariate |
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Ancient lands of the Counts of Andrade and Vilalba in the 14th century |
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"Diocese of Mondoñedo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
