Roman Catholic Diocese of Baeza


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baeza was a Visigothic Catholic bishopric, suppressed under Moorish rule and shortly restored in the 13th century, which remains a Latin titular see.

History

Some claim that Ancient Roman Beatia became the seat of a bishop in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo between 656 and 675, when the Diocese of Castulo was transferred to Beatia, on territory previously belonging to the Diocese of Tucci.
In 715 was established a Diocese of Baeza / Beatia / Biatien in its own right, on canonical territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Tucci, as a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Toledo, but the Moorish rule doomed it after a few more bishops, including martyrs.
In 900 the bishopric was suppressed, but king Alfonso VIII of Castile still mentions it in his Chronicle.
The diocese was shortly restored from 1227, when the Baeza Cathedral, then dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, was reinstated, until 1249, when the see was transferred for good and its territory merged into the Roman [Catholic Diocese of Jaén]. The former cathedral, although a Minor World Heritage Site, never became a cathedral again.

Residential Ordinaries

Recorded Suffragan Bishops of Baeza were :

Titular see

No longer a residential bishopric, Beatia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a Latin titular see.
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :