Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Mondoñedo-Ferrol
Latin:Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis
Local:Diócesis de Mondoñedo-Ferrol (es)
Diocese de Mondoñedo-Ferrol (gl)
Country: Spain
Province:Santiago de Compostela
Metropolitan:Santiago de Compostela
Area Km2:4,425
Population:292,200
Population As Of:2013
Catholics:291,100
Catholics Percent:99.6
Parishes:422
Denomination:Catholic
Sui Iuris Church:Latin Church
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:572 (As Diocese of Bretoña)
881 (As Diocese of San Martiño)
1136 (As Diocese of Vilamaior)
1199 (As Diocese of Ribadeo)
1219 (As Diocese of Mondoñedo)
9 March 1959 (As Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol)
Cathedral:Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mondoñedo
Cocathedral:Co-Cathedral of St Martin in El Ferrol
Bishop:Fernando García Cadiñanos
Bishop Title:Bishop elect
Metro Archbishop:Julián Barrio Barrio
Suffragan:for one -->
Archdeacon:for one-->

The Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol (Latin: Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. It is the northernmost of the four suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, which covers Galicia in the northwest of Spain.[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 (Britton church) in sources from the 6th and 7th centuries.

The bishop has a (main) cathedral (from Latin "cathedra" meaning episcopal seat), a minor basilica and World Heritage Site (Catedral Basílica de la Virgen de la Asunción, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary) in Mondoñedo, administrative Province of Lugo, and a co-cathedral Concatedral de San Julián in Ferrol, administrative Province of A Coruña, as well as a former cathedral which is a minor basilica, Basilica de San Martín de Mondoñedo in Foz, Lugo province.

History

Some authorities have sought to fix the date of the foundation of this diocese (under its primitive name of Britonia) earlier than the second half of the 6th century, but the later date seems the more probable when we consider that, at the Second Council of Braga (572), Mailoc, Bishop of Britonia, was ranked lowest because of the more recent origin of his see. It seems to have been founded by the Suevian king, Theodomir, converted to Catholicism by St Martin of Dumio, and to have included in its jurisdiction the churches of the Britones (a territory coinciding with that of Mondoñedo) and some of those of the Asturias. In the beginning it was a suffragan of Lugo, until the Goths placed Lugo under the jurisdiction of Braga. After Mailoc no mention is found of the bishops of Britonia for a long time, doubtless because the great distance from Toledo made it impossible for them to assist at the councils. In 633 Metopius, Bishop of Britonia, assisted at the Fourth Council of Toledo, presided over by St Isidore of Seville. Sonna, his successor, was one of the bishops who signed at the Seventh Council of Toledo (646) and sent a representative to the Eighth Council of Toledo (16 December 653). When Britonia was invaded and destroyed by the Saracens, the bishop and priests took refuge in Asturias. In 899, during the reign of Alfonso III of Asturias, Theodesimus, Bishop of Britonia, assisted with other prelates at the consecration of the church of Santiago de Compostela. It may also be noted that, in the repartition of the parishes, the church of San Pedro de Nova was assigned as the residence of the bishops of Britonia and Orense, when they should come to assist at the councils of Oviedo. By that time, however, the See of Britonia had been translated to the town of Mondumetum and the church of St. Martin of Dumio, or Mondoñedo. The diocese has since been most generally known by this name, although the episcopal residence has again changed. After the time of St. Martin it was transferred to Villamayor de Brea, from which it derived the name of Villabriensis, and afterwards to Ribadeo, but it was nevertheless known as Mindoniense, as a document of the year 1199 bears witness. At first, its patron was St. Martin of Tours, but St. Martin of Dumio was afterwards chosen patron.[3]

The diocese of Valabria, corresponding to the diocese that had its seat at Villamayor de Brea, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[4]

Leadership

Bishops of Britonia (Bretoña)

Bishops of Dumio (Dumium, San Martiño)

Bishops of Vilamaior

Bishop of Ribadeo

Bishops of Mondoñedo

Bishops of Mondoñedo-Ferrol

Statistics and extent

As of 2014, it served 290,000 Catholics (99.7% of 291,000 total population) on 4,425 km2 in 422 parishes, covering the northern part of the Province of A Coruña and the Province of Lugo, with 153 priests (143 diocesan, 10 religious), 225 lay religious (14 brothers, 211 sisters) and 3 seminarians.

Parishes by District

Azumara District

Begonte-Parga District

Cedeira District

Ferrol-Chamorro District

Ferrol]]-San Julian District

Miranda District

Mondoñedo District

Ortigueira District

As Pontes District

Ribadeo District

(Mondoñedo) San Martino District

Terra Chá District

Valadouro District

Vilalba District

Viveiro District

Xubia District

See also

Sources and external links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmofe.html "Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol"
  2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/mond0.htm "Diocese of Mondoñedo–Ferrol"
  3. Web site: CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mondonedo. www.newadvent.org. 2020-04-07.
  4. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,), p. 1004
  5. Manuel Carriedo Tejedo, "Cronología de los obispos mindonienses del siglo X", El legado cultural de la iglesia mindoniense : Ferrol, 16, 17, 18 de setembro, 1999 : I Congreso do Patrimonio da Diocesis de Mondoñedo, pp. 235–253
  6. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvazda.html "Bishop Alfonso Vázquez de Acuña"
  7. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bguzmanf.html "Bishop Fadrique de Guzmán"
  8. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsdlfds.html "Bishop Alonso Suárez de la Fuente del Sauce"
  9. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmuneb.html "Bishop Pedro de Munébregan"
  10. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ovie0.htm#19615 "Bishop Diego de Muros"
  11. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bperv.html "Bishop Diego Pérez Villamuriel"
  12. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsotv.html "Bishop Diego Soto Valera"
  13. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvelf.html "Bishop Francisco de Santa María Benavides Velasco, O.S.H."
  14. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmalda.html "Bishop Pedro Maldonado, O.F.M."
  15. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blihe.html "Archbishop Juan de Liermo Hermosa"
  16. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvaldh.html "Bishop Antonio Valdés Herrera"
  17. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjuaniz.html "Bishop Juan Juániz de Echalar"

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