Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayuna

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayuna was a short-lived Antillian Catholic bishopric with its seat at Lares de Guahaba.

History

It was established on 15 November 1504 as the Diocese of Bayuna, one of the first bishoprics in the New World, on Spanish-colonial territory formally split off canonically from the Archdiocese of Sevilla, like the Archdiocese of Hyaguata which became its Metropolitan, both in the present Dominican Republic, on Hispaniola.
It was suppressed on 8 August 1511, having had a single incumbent, who was transferred to the newly erected then Diocese of Santo Domingo.

Episcopal Ordinary

;Suffragan Bishop of Bayuna :

Bishop-elect Francisco Garcia de Padilla, Friars Minor, afterwards the first Bishop of Santo Domingo .