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Diocese Of Osma

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

History

  • Established circa 600 as Diocese of Osma
  • Lost territory in 1077 to the Diocese of Nájera
  • Renamed on 9 March 1959 as Diocese of Osma-Soria, as Soria gets a co-cathedral

Statistics

Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción and city walls

As per 2014, it pastorally served 80,000 Catholics (85.8% of 93,291 total) on 10,287 km 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
Suffragan Bishops of Osma-Soria

See also

References

  1. ^ Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Osma-Soria". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. ^ Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Osma-Soria (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. ^ Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 268. (in Latin)
  4. ^ "Archbishop Martín Carrillo Alderete" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 17 September 2016
  5. ^ "Bishop Antonio Valdés Herrera" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 17 September 2016