Ecclesiastical province Granada Sui iuris church Latin Church Area 6,945 km² Province Province of Granada Cathedral Granada Cathedral | Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Roman Rite Phone +34 958 21 63 23 Country Spain | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2006)
860,898
743,530 (86.9%) Established 3rd Century (As Diocese of Granada)
10 December 1492 (As Archdiocese of Granada) Address Plaza de Alonso Cano, S/N, 18001 Granada, Spain Metropolitan archbishop Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández Similar Catedral de Granada, Royal Chapel of Granada, Basílica de Nuestra Señora d, Alhambra, Monastery of San Jerónimo Profiles | ||
The Archdiocese of Granada (Latin: Archidioecesis Granatensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. It was erected as the Diocese of Granada in the 3rd century, and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Alexander VI on December 10, 1492, with the suffragan sees of Almería, Cartagena, Guadix, Jaén, and Málaga.
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The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Incarnation; Granada also houses the Basilicas of San Juan de Dios and Nuestra Señora de las Angustias. The current Archbishop of Granada is Francisco Martínez Fernández, appointed by Pope John Paul II on March 15, 2003.
Diocese of Granada
Archdiocese of Granada
References
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Granada Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA