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Niebla, Andalusia

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Elevation
  
45 m

Province
  
Province of Huelva

Local time
  
Monday 9:03 AM

Area
  
225 km²

Population
  
4,004 (2014)

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Weather
  
13°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 98% Humidity

Niebla is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, in Andalusia, southern Spain, as Elepla a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.

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Map of 21840 Niebla, Huelva, Spain

According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 4,200 inhabitants. A 2-km town wall surrounds the perimeter of the town.

Ecclesiastical history

Niebla has once been a Catholic bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sevilla.

In 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric under the names of of Elepla (also Curiate Italian) / Eleplen(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

  • Luis Almarcha Hernández (1970.04.04 – resigned 1970.12.11) on emeritate as former Bishop of León (Spain) (1944.07.10 – retired 1970.04.04), died 1974
  • Ciro Alfonso Gómez Serrano (1972.07.24 – 1975.10.25) as Coadjutor Bishop of Socorro y San Gil (Colombia) (1972.07.24 – 1975.10.25), later succeeding as Bishop of Socorro y San Gil (1975.10.25 – death 1980.01.19); previously Bishop of Girardot (Colombia) (1961.04.08 – 1972.07.24)
  • Pablo Ervin Schmitz Simon, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1984.06.22 – ...), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Bluefields (Nicaragua) (1984.06.22 – 1994.07.28), then having succeeded as Apostolic Vicar of Bluefields.

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