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Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo

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Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo
Dioecesis Civitatensis
Diócesis de Ciudad Rodrigo
Ciudad Rodrigo Cathedral
Ciudad Rodrigo Cathedral
Location
Country Spain
Ecclesiastical province Valladolid
Metropolitan Valladolid
Statistics
Area 4,264 km2 (1,646 sq mi)
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2016)
38 261
37 047 (96.8%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Latin Rite
Established 1168
Cathedral Cathedral of St Mary in Ciudad Rodrigo
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop José Luis Retana Gozalo
Metropolitan Archbishop Luis Javier Argüello García
Bishops emeritus Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, located in the city of Ciudad Rodrigo in the ecclesiastical province of Valladolid.[1][2]

Foundation

The origins of the diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo have been studied in depth in two papers by Fidel Fita.[3] The exact date when the town was conquered is unknown, but it was purchased by the citizens of Salamanca about 1135.[4] They controlled it until 1161, when it was annexed to the royal domain by king Ferdinand II, who built a castle for the defence of the frontier and founded the diocese as well as two monasteries. The move provoked hostility: the Salamancans revolted in 1162[5] and Portugal, threatened by a new royal fortress so near its border, invaded in 1163.[6]

When Ferdinand II founded the diocese in 1161, he claimed only to be re-establishing the ancient diocese of Caliabria, the location of which was in fact unknown. On 13 February Ferdinand issued a charter (called the fuero eclesiástico) for the new diocese, in which he gave the metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela full authority to appoint the bishop without reference to the cathedral chapter. The king did not consult the pope, Alexander III, who showed he was displeased by the fuero in a bull of 1175. By that time it may have even been allowed to lapse, since a further royal charter of 20 September 1168 does not mention the special provision of 1161. It is uncertain how the first bishop, Domingo, came into his office, or even when. He is not recorded in any document before 1168 and he was dead by 1172 or 1173.[6] Of the early bishops, only Pedro de Ponte is well known. Martín (1190–1211) and Lombardo (1214–27) are known only from the witness lists of royal charters and from Martín's stint as a papal judge-delegate.[7]

The Almohads attacked the city (Alsibdat in Arabic sources) in 1174, the same year that a dispute over the boundary between the diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo and that of Salamanca was settled. The diocese was bounded to the north and east by the rivers Huebra, Yeltes and Duero. Its southern frontier was desolate and extended to the diocese of Coria. To its west lay Portugal.[6]

Leadership

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo is a diocese of the catholic church of the Catholic Church.[26]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo (Civitatensis). Suffragan of the Diocese of Santiago; comprises the greater part of the province of Salamanca, and a portion of the province of Cáceres. The city of Ciudad Rodrigo, which is the capital of the diocese, was named for the Count Rodrigo González, who founded it about the middle of the twelfth century. It has approximately a population of 7000 inhabitants, and is the head of the judicial district. The bishopric was established by Ferdinand II, King of Leon, its establishment being confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1175. This see finally succeeded that of Caliabria, which dated from the Visigothic era, and existed from 621 to 693. Alfonso VIII gave the city of Caliabria to the Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1191. The first bishop of whom anything certain is known was called Pedro (1165); the most celebrated was the learned jurist Don Diego de Covarruvias y Leyva (1560).

FLÓREZ, De las iglesias de Avila, Caliabria, etc. in España Sagrada (Madrid, 1786), XIV, 45-50; GONZÁLES-DÁVILA, Theatro eclesiástico de las Iglesias de las dos Castillas (Madrid, 1700), IV, 1-48.

References

  1. Back to citation "Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. Back to citation "Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  3. Back to citation "La Diócesis y Fuero Eclesiástico de Ciudad Rodrigo", Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 61 (1912): 437–48; "El Papa Alejandro III y la Diócesis de Ciudad Rodrigo", Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 62 (1913): 142–57.
  4. Back to citation H. Grassotti, "Sobre una concesión de Alfonso VII a la iglesia salmantina", Cuadernos de Historia de España 49, 1 (1969), 347–48.
  5. Back to citation Such urban revolts were not uncommon in León, cf. Mutiny of the Trout.
  6. Back to citation occurrence 6.0 Back to citation occurrence 6.1 Back to citation occurrence 6.2 Richard A. Fletcher, The Episcopate in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), 35–36.
  7. Back to citation Fletcher, Episcopate, 36–37. He notes that Lombardo may have been the archdeacon of Medina and Alba in the diocese of Salamanca before becoming bishop.
  8. Back to citation "Bishop Pedro Beltrán" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 27, 2016
  9. Back to citation "Bishop Diego de Muros (Moiras), O. de M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
  10. Back to citation Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop Francisco Bobadilla" retrieved January 12, 2016
  11. Back to citation Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop Francisco Ruiz, O.F.M." retrieved January 12, 2016
  12. Back to citation Hierarchy: "Juan Cardinal Pardo de Tavera" retrieved January 14, 2016
  13. Back to citation "Archbishop Pedro Portocarrero" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 15, 2016
  14. Back to citation "Bishop Gonzalo Maldonado" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 15, 2016
  15. Back to citation "Bishop Juan Aceres" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 9, 2016
  16. Back to citation "Bishop Diego de Simancas" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 5, 2016
  17. Back to citation "Bishop Diego de Simancas" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved September 5, 2016
  18. Back to citation "Bishop Andrés Pérez" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 15, 2016
  19. Back to citation "Bishop Pedro Ponce de Léon, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 9, 2016
  20. Back to citation "Bishop Antonio Idiáquez Manrique" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
  21. Back to citation "Archbishop Juan Beltrán Guevara y Figueroa" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  22. Back to citation "Bishop Francisco Diego Alarcón y Covarrubias" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 27, 2016
  23. Back to citation "Archbishop Alfonso Bernardo de los Ríos y Guzmán, O.SS.T." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 20, 2016
  24. Back to citation "Bishop José González Blázquez, O. de M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 5, 2016
  25. Back to citation "Bishop Francisco Manuel de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Mendoza, O.S.A." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 17, 2016
  26. Back to citation Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo, official website

Bibliography

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