Diocese of Plasencia

The Diocese of Plasencia is a suffragan Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz, in Extremadura, western Spain.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral Nueva Gótica de Santa María, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in the city of Plasencia, which also has the Romanesque former cathedral Catedral Vieja Románica de San Pablo, dedicated to St. Paul.

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Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 261,853 Catholics on 10,354 km² in 200 parishes with 177 priests, 360 lay religious and 2 seminarians.

History

Established in 1189 as Diocese of Plasencia / Dioecesis Placentina in Hispania

From 1312 to 1326 the bishop Sancho Blázquez Dávila imported the ceremonial and the bureaucratic-administrative model of the royal court into his episcopal household.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Plasencia

Bricio
Domingo
Adán
Simón
Pedro Fernández, previously Bishop of Astorga
Pedro El Maestro
Juan Alfonso
Diego
Domingo
Juan
Jimeno
Benito
Sancho
Nicolás
Juan Guerra
Pedro de Manso
Martín
Pedro Martínez
Vicente Arias Balboa
Gonzalo de Stuñiga o Zúñiga, next Bishop of Jaén
Diego Badán, Friars Minor, previously Bishop of Badajoz, Bishop of Cartagena
Gonzalo de Santa María, previously Bishop of Gerona, Bishop of Astorga ; later Bishop of Sigüenza
Juan Carvajal previously Bishop of Coria ; created Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino, transferred Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lucia in Septisolio, promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, also still Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lucia in Septisolio in commendam, Apostolic Administrator of Zamora, Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals
Rodrigo de Ávila
Gutierre Álvarez de Toledo
* Auxiliary bishop Miguel Alviter, Order of Preachers, Titular Bishop of Baia
Gómez de Toledo Solís
Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande, also Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Ostia–Velletri, Cardinal Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals, Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Foligno ; previously Bishop of Astorga, Bishop of Badajoz, Bishop of Cartagena, created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro, transferred Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Bishop of Sigüenza, Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals, Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Avellino, Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Frigento, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano, transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Frascati, Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Rossano, transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Palestrina, Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina, Bishop of Sigüenza

Gutierre Vargas de Carvajal
* Auxiliary bishop Sancho Díaz de Trujillo, Titular Bishop of Marocco
Pedro Ponce de Léon, previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo
Martín de Córdoba Mendoza, Order of Preachers, next Bishop of Córdoba ; previously Bishop of Tortosa
Francisco Tello Sandoval, previously Bishop of Osma
Andrés de Noronha, previously Bishop of Portalegre
Juan Ochoa Salazar previously Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada
Pedro González Acevedo, previously Bishop of Orense
Enrique Enríquez de Almansa Manrique, Order of Saint Augustine, previously Bishop of Osma
Sancho Dávila Toledo, previously Bishop of Cartagena, Bishop of Jaén, Bishop of Sigüenza
* Auxiliary bishop Jerónimo González, Titular Bishop of Ascalon
Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Ribera died 1634; previously Bishop of Salamanca, Bishop of Pamplona, Bishop of Málaga
Cristóbal de Lobera y Torres, previously Bishop of Badajoz, Bishop of Osma, Bishop of Pamplona, Bishop of Córdoba
Plácido Pacheco de Haro, Order of Saint Benedict, previously Bishop of Cádiz
Diego Arce Reinoso, died 1665; previously Bishop of Tui, Bishop of Ávila
Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval
Francisco Guerra (bishop), O.F.M.
Luis Crespi y Borja, Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, previously Bishop of Orihuela
Alfonso Enríquez de Santo Tomás O.P., next Bishop of Málaga ; previously Bishop of Osma
Diego Riquelme y Quirós, previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, Bishop of Oviedo
Diego Sarmiento Valladares, previously Bishop of Oviedo
Archbishop-bishop Juan Lozano (bishop), Order of Saint Augustine, previously Bishop of Tropea, Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo
Juan Álvarez Osorio, previously Bishop of León
Juan Herrero Jaraba, previously Bishop of Badajoz
José Jiménez de Samaniego, Order of Friars Minor
Juan de Villacé y Vozmediano
José González Blázquez, Mercedarians, previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo
Bartolomé de Ocampo y Mata, previously Bishop of Segovia
José Gregorio de Rojas y Velázquez, previously Bishop of León
Bartolomé Cernuda Rico y Piñeros
Francisco Eustaquio Perea Porras, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Granada
Juan Montalbán Gómez, Order of Preachers, previously Bishop of Guadix
Francisco Laso de la Vega Córdova, O.P. previously Bishop of Ceuta
Pedro Manuel Dávila y Cárdenas, previously Bishop of Islas Canarias
Plácido Bailés y Padilla, Order of Saint Augustine, previously Bishop of Huesca
Francisco Antonio Bustamante Jiménez
José Ignacio Rodríguez Cornejo
Pedro Gómez de la Torre
Juan Francisco Manrique Lara
Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón
José González Laso Santos de San Pedro
Lorenzo Igual de Soria
Antonio Carrillo Mayoral
Cipriano Sánchez Varela
Martino Piña y Giménez
José Ávila Lamas
Bernardo Conde y Corral, Norbertines
Gregoria María López y Zaragoza
Pedro Casas y Souto
Francisco Jarrín y Moro
Manuel Torres y Torres
Ángel Regueras y López
Justo Rivas Fernández
Feliciano Rocha Pizarro
Juan Pedro Zarranz y Pueyo
Antonio Vilaplana Molina
Santiago Martínez Acebes
Carlos López Hernández
Amadeo Rodríguez Magro
José Luis Retana Gozalo
Ernesto Jesús Brontóns Tena