Diocese of Lugo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo is a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela.
The cathedral episcopal see is in the Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel, in Lugo city.
It also has a World Heritage Site : the Cistercian Monastery of Santa María, in Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coruña, Galicia.
Extent and statistics
As per 2012, it pastorally served 288,000 Catholics on 7,703 km2 in 1,139 parishes with 376 priests, 318 lay religious and 7 seminarians.Its jurisdiction covers 1,138 parishes in three administrative Spanish provinces :
History
- Established circa 100 AD as Diocese of Lugo in Hispania
- Promoted in 569 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lugo in Hispania
- Lost territory circa 572 to establish the Diocese of Bretoña
- Suppressed in 713.
- Restored in 745 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lugo in Hispania, but held in personal union with the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga from 745 until its 1071 demotion, i.e. without a single proper incumbent
- Lost territory in 811 to establish Diocese of Oviedo, gained territory in 832 from the suppressed Diocese of Orense.
- Lost territories in 866 to establish Diocese of San Martiño de Mondoñedo and in 886 to establish Diocese of Orense
- Demoted in 1071 as Suffragan Diocese of Lugo in Hispania, having gained territory from Diocese of Oviedo
- Gained territory on 1954.10.17 from Diocese of Oviedo, and exchanged territories with Diocese of Astorga, Diocese of Mondoñedo and Diocese of Orense.
Episcopal Ordinaries of Lugo
;Suffragan Bishops of Lugo;Metropolitan Archbishops of Lugo
;Suffragan Bishops of Lugo
- Archbishop-Bishop Vistrário, previously Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga and last Metropolitan Archbishop of Lugo
- Amor
- Pedro = Peter II
- Pedro = Peter III
- Guido = uy
- Juan = John
- Rodrigo I Menéndez
- Rodrigo II Menéndez
- Ordoño
- Miguel
- Fernando Arias, later Bishop of Tui
- Juan Martínez
- Alonso Yáñez
- Arias Soga
- Fernando Arias Pérez de Páramo
- Arias Medín
- Rodrigo Ibáñez
- Pedro López de Aguiar, OP
- Bishop Lope
- Juan de Freijo
- Juan Enríquez
- Fernando de Palacios
- Álvaro Pérez Osorio, next Bishop of Astorga
- García Martínez de Baamonde, next Bishop of O(u)rense; previously Bishop of Tui
- Pedro Silva y Tenorio, next Bishop of O(u)rense, Bishop of Badajoz
- García Martínez de Baamonde
- Alonso Enríquez de Lemos
- Alonso Suárez de la Fuente del Sauce, next Bishop of Jaén ; previously Bishop of Mondoñedo
- Diego Ramírez de Guzmán, next Bishop of Catania
- Pedro Ribera
- Martín Tristán Calvete next Bishop of Oviedo
- Juan Suárez Carvajal, died 1584
- Francisco Delgado López (bishop), next Bishop of Jaén
- Fernando Vellosillo Barrio
- Juan Ruiz de Villarán
- Lorenzo Asensio Otaduy Avendaño, next Bishop of Ávila
- Pedro Castro Nero, next Bishop of Segovia, Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Valencia in Spain|Valencia]
- Juan García Valdemora, next Bishop of Tui
- Alfonso López Gallo, next Bishop of Valladolid
- Diego Vela Becerril, next Bishop of Tui
- Juan del Águila Velázquez
- Diego Castejón Fonseca, next Bishop of Tarazona
- Juan Vélez de Valdivielso, next Bishop of Ávila , Bishop of Cartagena
- Pedro Rosales Encio
- Juan Sánchez Alonso de Guevara, OSH
- Juan del Pozo Horta, OP, next Roman Catholic [Diocese of León in Spain|Bishop of León], Bishop of Segovia
- Francisco Torres Sánchez de Roa
- Juan Bravo Lasprilla
- Andrés Girón, next Bishop of Roman Catholic [Diocese of Pamplona y Tudela|Pamplona], Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela|Santiago de Compostela]
- Matías de Moratinos y Santos, next Bishop of Astorga, Bishop of Segovia
- Juan Asensio Barrios, OdeM, next Bishop of Ávila, Bishop of Jaén
- Juan Aparicio Navarro, next Bishop of León in Spain|León]
- Antonio Medina Cachón y Ponce de León, next [Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartagena|Bishop of Cartagena (en España)] ; previously Bishop of Ceuta
- Miguel de Fuentes Blas y Altossano, OCist
- Lucas Bustos de la Torre
- Andrés Caperó Agramunt, OCD
- Manuel Santa Maria Salazar
- Cayetano Gil Taboada, next Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
- Juan Bautista Ferrer y Castro
- Francisco Izquierdo y Tavira, OP
- Juan Sáenz de Bururaga, next Archbishop of Zaragoza
- Francisco Armañá Font, OSA, next Archbishop of Tarragona
- Antonio Paramo Somoza
- Felipe Pelaez Caunedo
- José Antonio Azpeitia y Sáenz de Santamaria, next Bishop of Cartagena (en España)
- Hipólito Antonio Sánchez Rangel de Fayas, OFM ; previously Bishop of Maynas and Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Cartagena
- Santiago Rodríguez Gil, OP
- José Ríos de los Lamadrid
- Gregorio María Aguirre y García, OFM, next Archbishop of Burgos, Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic [Diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada|Calahorra y La Calzada] , created Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina, Latin Titular Patriarch of Indias Occidentales, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo
- Benito Murúa y López, next Archbishop of Burgos
- Manuel Basulto y Jiménez, next Bishop of Jaén
- Plácido Ángel Rey de Lemos, OFM, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Pelusium ; previously Titular Bishop of Hamatha and Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Diocese of Jaén
- Rafael Balanzá y Navarro, also Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Mondoñedo ; previously Titular Bishop of Chersonesus as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Toledo
- Antonio Oña de Echave, died 1987; succeeded as previous Titular Bishop of Dystis and Auxiliary Bishop of Lugo
- José Higinio Gómez González, OFM, died 2008
- Alfonso Carrasco Rouco.