Archdiocese of Granada


The Archdiocese of Granada is a Latin ecclesiastical province of the Catholic Church in Spain. Originally the Diocese of Elvira from the 3rd century through the 10th, it was re-founded in 1437 as the diocese of Granada and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Alexander VI on 10 December 1492. Its suffragan sees are Almería, Cartagena, Guadix, Jaén and Málaga.
The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Granada also houses the Basilicas of San Juan de Dios and Nuestra Señora de las Angustias. The current archbishop of Granada is José María Gil Tamayo, appointed by Pope Francis on 1 February 2023.
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Ordinaries

Bishops of Elvira

The following list is based on the Nomina defunctorum episcoporum Spalensis sedis uel Toletane atque Eliberritane sedis, a necrology of bishops of those sees found in the Codex Emilianense, which was compiled between 962 and 994.
  • Caecilius, legendary
  • Leubesind
  • Ameantus
  • Ascanius
  • Julian
  • Augustulus
  • Marturius
  • Gregory I
  • Peter I
  • Fabian
  • Honasterius
  • Optatus
  • Peter II
  • Zoilus
  • Gregory II
  • John I
  • Valerius
  • Lusidius
  • John II
  • John III
  • Ursus
  • John IV
  • John V
  • Mantius
  • Respectus
  • Caritonus or Orontius
  • Peter III
  • Vincent
  • Honorius
  • Stephen
  • Baddo or Batonius
  • Bissinus
  • Felix
  • Iterius
  • Aga
  • Anthony
  • Argebad or Argibadonius
  • Argemir
  • Bapiria
  • John VI
  • Ceterius
  • Trectemund
  • Dadila
  • Adica
  • Balduigius
  • Egila
  • Daniel
  • Gervase I
  • Turibius
  • Agila
  • Gebuldo
  • Sintila
  • Samuel I
  • Gervase II
  • Reccared
  • Manila
  • Sennaion
  • Nifridius
  • Samuel II
  • Pantaleon
  • Gundafor
  • Pirricius
  • Gapio
  • Recemund, the last known bishop of Elvira

Bishops of Granada

Archbishops of Granada