Diocese of Osma-Soria


The Diocese of Osma-Soria is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Spain. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Burgos. Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, in El Burgo de Osma. It also has a co-cathedral, Concatedral de San Pedro, dedicated to St. Peter, in Soria, and a minor basilica: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Miagros Miagros, in Ágreda, Soria, Castile and León, Spain.

History

  • Established circa 600 as Diocese of Osma
  • Lost territory in 1077 to the Diocese of Nájera
  • Renamed on 9 March 1959 as Diocese of Osma-Soria, as Soria gets a co-cathedral

    Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 80,000 Catholics on 10,287 km2 in 542 parishes and 19 missions with 128 priests, 212 lay religious and 1 seminarian.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Bishops of Osma
;Suffragan Bishops of Osma-Soria