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Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria

Diocese of Osma-Soria Dioecesis Oxomensis-Soriana Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Burgo de Osma Cathedral
Location
Country	Spain
Ecclesiastical province	Burgos
Metropolitan	Burgos
Statistics
Area	10,328 km2 (3,988 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 95,700 76,900 (80.4%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady in Burgo de Osma
Co-cathedral	Co-Cathedral of St Peter in Soria
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Abilio Martínez Varea
Metropolitan Archbishop	Francisco Gil Hellín
Website
Website of the Diocese

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.^[1][2] 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 80,000 Catholics (85.8% of 93,291 total) on 10,287 km² 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[edit]

very incomplete : lacking first centuries

Bishops of Osma

• Pedro de Bourges, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1101 – death 1109.08.02)
• Raimundo (1109–1124), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1124 – death 1152)
• Beltrán (1126 – death 1140.10.01)
• Esteban (1141 – death 1147.09.01)
• Juan (1148 – death 1174.04.28)
• Bernardo (1174–1176)
• Miguel, O.S.B. (1177–1184)
• García (1185–1186)
• Martín Bazán (1188 – death 1201.07.27)
• Diego de Acebes (1201 – 1207.12.30)
• Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (1208 – 1208 ? 27 Feb 1209)
• Menendo (1210–1225)
• Pedro Ramírez de Piedrola (1225–1230), next Bishop of Pamplona (Spain) (1231 – death 1238.10.05)
• Juan de Soria (1231 – 1240.05.29), next Bishop of Burgos (Spain) (1240.05.29 – 1246)
• Pedro de Peñafiel (1241 – death 1246.04.12)
• Gil(les) (27 March 1247 – death 4 August 1261)
• Agustin Pérez (18 Oct 1261 – death 12 April 1286)
• Juan Alvarez (bishop) (4 May 1286 – death 20 Oct 1296)
• Juan Pérez de Ascaron (1296 – death 1329)
• Bernabé (1329.10.20 – death 1351), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1324.07.27 – 1329.10.20)
• Gonzalo (1351–1354)
• Alfonso Fernando de Toledo y Vargas, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (1354.10.25 – 1363.10.13), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Andalusia, southern Spain) (1363.10.13 – 1366); previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1353.02.13 – 1354.10.25)
• Lorenzo Pérez (1362.12.13 – death 1367)
• Pedro Gomez Barroso (19 July 1368 – 4 March 1373), next Bishop of Cuenca (Spain) (1373–1378)
• Juan García Palomeque (4 March 1373 – death 1374), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1354.10.25 – 1373.03.04)
• Juan de Villareal (1374 – death 1379.02.22)
• Pedro Fernández de Frías (21 March 1379 – resigned? 1404), also/next Pseudocardinal-Priest of S. Prassede (1396? – 1412.09.23▼), ArchpriestofPapal Basilica of St. Peter (1412 – 1420.09.19▼), promoted Pseudocardinal-BishopofSuburbicarian Diocese of Sabina (1412.09.23 – death 1420.09.19▼) but also Pseudocardinal-Priest of above S. Prassede in commendam (1412.09.23 – 1419.06.26?▼) and next Pseudocardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia in commendam (1419.06.26 – 1420.09.19▼)
• Apostolic Administrator Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz (28 Nov 1408 – death 14 March 1434), while Pseudocardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio (1408.09.22 – 1418.08.01▼); later (canonical) Apostolic Administrator of Sigüenza (Spain) (1422 – ?), promoted Cardinal-PriestofSs. Quattro Coronati (1423.01 – death 1434.03.14), Archpriest of Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (1428 – 1434.03.14)
• Juan de Cerezuela y Luna (1422–1433), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Spain) (1433 – 1434), Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1434 – 1442)
• Pedro de Castilla de Eril (22 April 1433 – 6 April 1440), next Bishop of Palencia (Spain) (1440.04 – 1461.04.28)
• Roberto Moya (1440 – death 1453.11.13)
• Pedro García de Montoya (Huete) (9 Jan 1454 – death 18 Feb 1475)
• Francisco de Santillana (1475.05.04 – 1482.03.06), next Bishop of Córdoba (Spain) (1482.03.06 – 1482 not possessed)
  • Apostolic Administrator Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza (1482.07.08 – 1482.11), while Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Sevilla (Spain) (1474.05.09 – 1482.11.13), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Sigüenza (Spain) (1474.05.09 – 1495.01.11), transferred Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme (1478.07.06 – death 1495.01.11); previously Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada (Spain) (1453.11.28 – 1467.10.30), Bishop of above Sigüenza (1467.10.30 – 1474.05.09), created Cardinal-PriestofS. Maria in Domnica pro hac vice Title (1473.05.17 – 1478.07.06); later Latin Patriarch of Alexandria (1482.11.13 – 1495.01.11) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1482.11.13 – 1495.01.11)
  • Apostolic Administrator Cardinal Raffaele Riario (1483.01.15 – 1493.05), while Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Pisa (Italy) (1479.09.17 – 1499.06.03), transferred Cardinal-DeaconofS. Lorenzo in Damaso pro illa vice Deaconry (1480.05.05 – 1503.11.29), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Tréguier (France) (1480.08.18 – 1483.05.16), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Salamanca (Spain) (1482.07.08 – 1483), Chamberlain of the Holy Roman ChurchofReverend Apostolic Camera (1483.01.24 – 1521.07.09); previously Cardinal-DeaconofS. Giorgio in Velabro (1477.12.12 – 1480.05.05), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Camerino (Italy) (1478.07.27 – 1479.09.17), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Cuenca (Spain) (1479.08.13 – 1482.07); later again Apostolic Administrator of Cuenca (1493.05.24 – 1521.07.09), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Tuscanella (1498.08.28 – 1506.09.16), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Viterbo (Italy) (1498.08.28 – 1506.09.16), Protodeacon of Sacred College of Cardinals (1503.09 – 1503.11.29), promoted Cardinal-BishopofSuburbicarian Diocese of Albano (1503.11.29 – 1507.08.03), also Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso in commendam (1503.11.29 – 1517.06.22), promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina (1507.08.03 [1507.09.10] – 1508.09.22), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Arezzo (Italy) (1508.07.07 – 1511.11.05), transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto e Santa Rufina (1508.09.22 – 1511.01.20), Cardinal Vice-Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1508.09.22 – 1511.01.20), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Savona (Italy) (1508.12.05 – 1516.04.09), transferred Cardinal-BishopofSuburbicarian Diocese of Ostia–Velletri (1511.01.20 – ?1517.06.22), Cardinal Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1511.01.20 – 1521.07.09), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Malta (Malta) (1516.05.23 – 1520), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Lucca (Italy) (1517.03.09 – 1517.11.12), ?again Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia–Velletri (?1517.07.24 – death 1521.07.09), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Malaga (Balearic Spain) (1518.04.12 – 1518.09.03), again Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Pisa (Italy) (1518.09.03 – retired 1518.09.10)
• Alfonso de Fonseca (1493 – death 1505), previously Bishop of Ávila (Spain) (1469–1485), Bishop of Cuenca (Spain) (1485–1493)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: García de Chinchilla, O.P. (1500.09.18 – death 1502), Titular BishopofByblus (1500.09.18 – 1502)
• Alfonso Enríquez (19 December 1505 – death 15 October 1523)
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Blas de Fernando, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.- (1507.04.19 – ?), Titular Bishop of above Byblus (1507.04.19 – ?)
• Juan Pardo Tavera (31 December 1523 – 8 June 1524), previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain) (1514.07.14 – 1523.12.31); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (1524.06.08 –retired 1534.04.27), created Cardinal-PriestofS. Giovanni a Porta Latina (1531.04.27 – death 1545.08.01), Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1534.04.27 – 1545.08.01)
• García de Loaysa y Mendoza, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (8 June 1524 – 23 February 1532), previously Master of the Dominican Order (O.P.) (1518.05.23 – 1524.06.08), created Cardinal-PriestofS. Susanna (1530.05.16 – death 1546.04.22), Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain) (1532.02.23 – 1539.05.21), Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Spain) (1539.05.21 – 1546.04.22)
• Pedro González Manso (13 March 1532 – death 12 February 1537), previously Bishop of Guadix (Spain) (1523.08.31 – 1524.10.26), Bishop of Tui (Spain) (1524.10.26 – 1525.07.03), Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1525.07.03 – 1532.03.13)
• Pedro Alvarez de Acosta (21 May 1539 – death 20 February 1563), previously Bishop of Porto (Portugal) (1507.02.12 – 1535.01.08), Bishop of León (Spain) (1535.01.08 – 1539.05.21)
• Honorato Juan (1 March 1564 – death 30 July 1566)
• Francisco Tello Sandoval (3 March 1567 – 13 June 1578), next Bishop of Plasencia (Spain) (1578.06.13 – death 1580.07.08)
• Alonso Velázquez (13 June 1578 – 9 March 1583), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (1583.03.09 – death 1587.01.14)
• Sebastián Pérez (bishop) (9 May 1583 – death 27 July 1593 Died)
• Martín Garnica (27 April 1594 – death 20 November 1594 Died)^[3]
• Pedro Rojas Henríques, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (30 August 1595 – death 9 March 1602), previously Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1591.03.06 – 1595.08.30)
• Enrique Enríquez, O.E.S.A. (1602.11.15 – 1610.06.21), next Bishop of Plasencia (Spain) (1610.06.21 – death 1622.01.22)
• Fernando Acevedo González (July 1610 – 2 June 1613), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Burgos (Spain) (1613.06.02 – 1629)
• Francisco de Sosa, O.F.M. (23 September 1613 – death 1618)^[3]
• Cristóbal de Lobera y Torres (9 July 1618 – 6 March 1623)^[3]
• Alsono Martín de Zuñiga (23 March 1623 – 21 June 1630 Died)^[3]
• Domingo Pimentel Zúñiga, O.P. (2 October 1630 – 18 July 1633)^[3]
• Francisco Villafañe (5 September 1633 – 26 August 1639 Died)^[3]
• Martín Carrillo Alderete (9 June 1636 – 1 July 1641)^[3][4]
• Antonio Valdés Herrera (21 October 1641 – 10 November 1653)^[3][5]
• Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (24 November 1653 – 1 October 1659 Died)^[3]
• Nicolás Martinez (bishop), O.S.H. (21 June 1660 – 1 Oct 1660 Died)^[3]
• Alfonso Enríquez de Santo Tomás, O.P. (26 Sep 1661 – 28 Jan 1664 Confirmed, Bishop of Plasencia)^[3]
• Pedro de Godoy, O.P. (31 March 1664 – 16 May 1672 Confirmed, Bishop of Sigüenza)^[3]
• Antonio de Isla y Mena (8 August 1672 – 17 Dec 1681 Died)
• Sebastián de Arévalo y Torres, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (20 April 1682 – 20 Jan 1704 Died)
• Jorge Cárdenas Valenzuela (1704 – 18 November 1705 Died)
• Andrés Soto de la Fuente (22 March 1706 – 29 December 1714 Died)
• Felipe Antonio Gil Taboada (5 July 1715 – 4 March 1720)
• Miguel Herrero Esgueva (15 April 1720 – 20 January 1723)
• Jacinto Valledor Fresno (12 April 1723 – 12 February 1730 Died)
• José Barnuevo, O.S.B. (24 July 1730 – 25 July 1735 Died)
• Pedro de la Cuadra Achica (1 April 1736 – 7 September 1741)
• Juan Antonio Oruña (28 September 1744 – 4 March 1748 Died)
• Pedro Clemente de Aróstegui (16 September 1747 – 29 August 1760)
• Jacinto Aguado y Chacón (18 July 1762 – 27 March 1764)
• Bernardo Antonio Calderón Lázaro (20 August 1764 – 15 October 1786)
• Joaquín de Eleta, O.F.M. (27 December 1786 – 4 December 1788 Died)
• José Constancio Andino (29 March 1790 – death Nov 1793)
• Diego Melo Portugal, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (12 September 1794 – 18 December 1795)
• Antonio Tavira Almazán (27 June 1796 – 14 August 1798)
• Francisco Ignacio Iñigo Angulo (25 September 1798 – 8 January 1799)
• Juan Moya, O.F.M. (28 March 1799 – 19 February 1801)
• José Antonio Garnica, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (23 February 1801 – 10 January 1810)
• Juan Cavia González (19 August 1814 – 23 December 1831)
• Gregorio Sánchez y Jiménez (Rubio), Hieronymites (O.S.H.) (17 December 1847 – 27 September 1852)
• Vicente Horcos y San Martín, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (27 September 1852 – 13 January 1861)
• Pedro María Lagüera y Menezo (23 December 1861 – 1892)
• Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez (15 June 1893 – 19 April 1897)
• José María García Escudero y Ubago (19 April 1897 – 22 March 1909)
• Manuel Lago y González (25 August 1909 – 4 May 1917)
• Matteo Múgica y Urrestarazu (22 February 1918 – 26 October 1923)
• Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (18 December 1924 – 28 January 1935)
• Tomás Gutiérrez Diez (1 April 1935 – 11 November 1943)
• Saturnino Rubio y Montiél (9 December 1944 – 1959 see below)

Suffragan Bishops of Osma-Soria

• Saturnino Rubio y Montiél (see above 1959 – 4 December 1969)
• Teodoro Cardenal Fernández (1 December 1969 – 19 October 1983)
• José Diéguez Reboredo (1 September 1984 – 15 May 1987)
• Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (6 November 1987 – 12 May 1995)
• Francisco Pérez González (16 December 1995 – 30 October 2003)
• Vicente Jiménez Zamora (21 May 2004 – 27 July 2007)
• Gerardo Melgar Viciosa (1 May 2008 – 8 April 2016)
• Abilio Martínez Varea (5 January 2017 – ...).

See also[edit]

• List of Catholic dioceses in Spain, Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar
• Roman Catholicism in Spain

References[edit]

Sources and external links[edit]

• GCatholic.org, with Google map and satellite photo – data for all sections ^{[self-published]}
• Catholic Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}