Roman Catholic Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón

Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón

Dioecesis Segobricensis-Castillionensis

Diócesis de Segorbe-Castellón (es)
Diòcesi de Sogorb-Castelló (val)
Location
Country Spain
Ecclesiastical provinceValencia
MetropolitanValencia
Coordinates39°51′08″N 0°29′18″W / 39.8523°N 0.4883°W / 39.8523; -0.4883
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
CathedralSegorbe Cathedral
Co-cathedralCastelló Cathedral
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopCasimiro López Llorente
Metropolitan ArchbishopAntonio Cañizares Llovera
Map of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón (dark green)
Interior of Segorbe Cathedral

The Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón (Latin: Dioecesis Segobricensis-Castillionensis; Valencian: Diòcesi de Sogorb-Castelló) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Castellón, part of the autonomous community of Valencia. The diocese forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Valencia, and is thus suffragan to the Archdiocese of Valencia.

History

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No name of any Bishop of Segorbe is known earlier than Proculus, who signed in the Third Council of Toledo (589). He was followed by a succession of bishop until Anterius, who attended the fifteenth (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 mosque.[1]

In 1172 Pedro Ruiz de Azagra, second son of the Lord of Estella, held the city of Albarracín, 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 Bishop of Zaragoza, though ordered to do so by the pope.[2] Instead, Martin swore allegiance to the Metropolitan of Toledo. Four years later, Martin took instead the title of Bishop of Segorbe.[3] This choice of name follows the ideology of the Reconquest, according to which the bishops were simply restoring the old Christian entities only temporarily taken over by the Moors. In this way, the city of Albarracín became the seat of the bishops of Segorbe.

When Segorbe was conquered by the king James I of Aragon 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 Rome, 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.[3]

The Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady of Segorbe, once a mosque, was reconsecrated in 1534,[4] and in 1795 the nave was lengthened, and new altars added, in the episcopate of Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo.Amadó,[1]

In 1577, Pope Gregory XIII, 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.[3]

In 1960 the see 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 Province of València were dismembered and aggregated to the Archdiocese of Valencia. On the other hand, the Nules, Vila-real, Castelló de la Plana, Lucena and Albocàsser parishes that had belonged to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tortosa were aggregated to the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón along with the parish of Betxí.

Present day

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The Cathedral was elevated to the rank of minor basilica in 1985.[5] 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.[6]

Bishops of Segorbe (6th and 7th centuries)

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Episcopal see suppressed (unknown–1173)

Bishops of Segorbe (1173–1259)

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Bishops of Segorbe with seat in Albarracín. All the names are given in Spanish:

  1. 1173–1213: Martín
  2. 1213–1215: Hispano
  3. 1216–1222: Juan Gil
  4. 1223–1234: Domingo
  5. 1235–1238: Guillermo
  6. 1245–1246: Jimeno
  7. 1246–1259: Pedro

Bishops of Segorbe-Albarracín (1259–1576)

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All the names are given in Spanish:

  1. 1259–1265: Martín Álvarez
  2. 1265–1272: Pedro Garcés
  3. 1272–1277: Pedro Jiménez de Segura
  4. 1284–1288: Miguel Sánchez
  5. 1288–1301: Aparicio
  6. 1302–1318: Antonio Muñoz
  7. 1319–1356: Sancho Dull
  8. 1356–1362: Elías
  9. 1362–1369: Juan Martínez de Barcelona
  10. 1369–1387: Iñigo de Valterra
  11. 1387–1400: Diego de Heredia
  12. 1400–1409: Francisco Riquer y Bastero
  13. 1410–1427: Juan de Tauste
  14. 1428–1437: Francisco de Aguiló
  15. 1438–1445: Jaime Gerart
  16. 1445–1454: Gisberto Pardo de la Casta
  17. 1455–1459: Luis de Milá y Borja
  18. 1461–1473: Pedro Baldó
  19. 1473–1498: Bartolomé Martí
  20. 1498–1499: Juan Marrades
  21. 1500–1530: Gilberto Martí
  22. 1530–1556: Gaspar Jofre de Borja
  23. 1556–1571: Juan de Muñatones
  24. 1571–1576: Francisco de Soto Salazar

Bishops of Segorbe (1577–1960)

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  1. 1577–1578: Francisco Sancho
  2. 1579–1582: Gil Ruiz de Liori
  3. 1583–1591: Martín de Salvatierra
  4. 1591–1597: Juan Bautista Pérez Rubert
  5. 1599–1609: Feliciano de Figueroa
  6. 1610–1635: Pedro Ginés de Casanova
  7. 1636–1638: Juan Bautista Pellicer
  8. 1639–1652: Diego Serrano de Sotomayor
  9. 1652–1660: Francisco Gavaldá
  10. 1661–1672: Anastasio Vives de Rocamora
  11. 1673–1679: José Sanchís y Ferrandis
  12. 1680–1691: Crisóstomo Royo de Castellví
  13. 1691–1707: Antonio Ferrer y Milán
  14. 1708–1714: Rodrigo Marín Rubio
  15. 1714–1730: Diego Muños de Baquerizo
  16. 1731–1748: Francisco de Cepeda y Guerrero
  17. 1749–1751: Francisco Cuartero
  18. 1751–1757: Pedro Fernández Velarde
  19. 1758–1770: Blas de Arganda
  20. 1770–1780: Alonso Cano
  21. 1780–1781: Lorenzo Lay Anzano
  22. 1783–1808: Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo
  23. 1814–1816: Lorenzo Algüero Ribera
  24. 1816–1821: Francisco de la Dueña Cisneros
  25. 1825–1837: Juan Sanz Palanco
  26. 1847–1864: Domingo Canubio y Alberto
  27. 1865–1868: Joaquín Hernández Herrero
  28. 1868–1875: José Luis Montagut
  29. 1876–1880: Mariano Miguel Gómez
  30. 1880–1899: Francisco Aguilar
  31. 1900–1907: Manuel García Cerero y Soler
  32. 1907–1911: Antonio María Massanet
  33. 1913–1934: Luis Amigó Ferrer
  34. 1936–1936: Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats
  35. 1944–1950: Ramón Sanahuja y Marcé
  36. 1951–1960: José Pont y Gol

Bishops of Segorbe-Castellón (since 1960)

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  1. 1960–1970: José Pont y Gol
  2. 1971–1996: José María Cases Deordal
  3. 1996–2005: Juan Antonio Reig Pla
  4. 2006–today: Casimiro López Llorente

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Ramón Ruiz. "Segorbe." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 9 November 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Buresi, Pascal. La frontière entre chrétienté et Islam dans la pénisule Ibérique: du Tage à la Sierra Morena (fin XIe-milieu XIIIe siècle). (2004) Editions Publibook
  3. ^ a b c "Nuestra historia", Obispado Segorbe Castellon
  4. ^ Villanueva, Jaime (1804). "Restauracion de la moderna iglesia de Segorve". Viage literario á iglesias de España : Le Publica con algunas observaciones (in Spanish). Vol. 3–4. Madrid: Imprenta real. p. 19.
  5. ^ "Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen".
  6. ^ "Segorbe Cathedral Museum", Spain is Culture, Ministry of Culture and Sport

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