Diocese of Tui-Vigo


The Diocese of Tui-Vigo is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northwestern Spain. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela.
Its cathedral is Tui Cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria, in the episcopal see of Tui. It also has a co-cathedral, dedicated to Saint Martin and the Virgin Mary in Vigo: the Co-Cathedral of [Santa María, Vigo].

Statistics

, it pastorally served 533,800 Catholics on 1,718 km2 in 275 parishes and 60 missions with 254 priests, 2 deacons, 472 lay religious and 14 seminarians.

History

  • 570: Established as Diocese of Tui / Tuden, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Braga
  • 1024: Suppressed, its territory being reassigned to the Diocese of Iria Flavia
  • 1069: Restored as Diocese of Tui / Tuden, regaining its territory from above Diocese of Iria Flavia
  • 1421: Lost territory to Diocese of Ceuta
  • 1959.03.09: Renamed as Diocese of Tui–Vigo / Tuden–Vicen

    Episcopal ordinaries

;Bishops of Tui
  • ...
  • Saint Viliulfo
  • Pelayo
  • Alfonso
  • Suero Bermudez
;Bishops of Tui
;Bishops of Tui-Vigo
  • José Ángel López Ortiz, O.S.A.
  • José Delicado Baeza
  • José Cerviño Cerviño
  • José Diéguez Reboredo
  • Luis Quinteiro Fiuza
  • Antonio José Valín Valdés