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Roman Catholic Diocese of Jerez de la Frontera

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Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Spain

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Juan Asenjo Pelegrina

Sui iuris church
  
Latin Church

Established
  
3 March 1980

Area
  
3,928 km²

Bishop
  
José Mazuelos Pérez

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2006) 507,331 449,914 (88.7%)

Cathedral
  
Jerez de la Frontera Cathedral

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seville

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jerez de la Frontera is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. Its name derives from the localities of Medina-Sidonia and Jerez de la Frontera. This bishopric was erected the 3 of March 1980 by means of a Papal Bull, with the name of Asidonense-Jerezano, in memory of the old Asidonense Bishopric and because its present seat is in Jerez de la Frontera. The main temple of this diocese the Colegiata of San Salvador, today Jerez's Cathedral. The Bishopric of the Diocese is in Palace of Bertemati, in the Seat of the Stream. Asidonia-Jerez Seminary was founded on 1985.

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Juan Grande Roman has like santo pattern from the diocese and like patron to the Immaculate Conception.

It includes Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, El Puerto de Santa María, Chipiona, Rota, Trebujena, Arcos de la Frontera, Algar, Bornos, Espera, Villamartín, Prado del Rey, El Bosque, Ubrique, Puerto Serrano, Algodonales, Zahara de la Sierra, Benaocaz, Villaluenga del Rosario, Grazalema, El Gastor, Olvera, Alcalá del Valle, Torre Alháquime and Setenil de las Bodegas.

Arciprestazgos

  • Arciprestazgo de Jerez
  • Arciprestazgo de Sanlúcar de Barrameda
  • Arciprestazgo de El Puerto de Santa María
  • Arciprestazgo de Arcos de la Frontera
  • Arciprestazgo de Grazalema
  • Arciprestazgo de Zahara de la Sierra

    • History

    It is believed the present city of Medina-Sidonia was known in antiquity as Sidonia or Asidonia, a Phoenician colony whose name derives from the name of the city of its founders, Sidón. This bishopric was known as Asidonense.

    Bishopric

    Bishopric of the old Assidonia

    1. Maximus (497)
    2. Manuncio (516)
    3. Basiliano (593)
    4. Rufino (628)
    5. Pimenio (629-649)
    6. Suetonio (661)
    7. Paciano (672)
    8. Fulgencio, monje benedictino
    9. Theuderacio (Teoderacio) (681-688)
    10. Geroncio (690-693)
    11. Cesario (698)
    12. Exuperio, obispo mártir por los Musulmanes (713-714)
    13. Juan, monje (714)
    14. Miro (862)
    15. Pedro (s IX)
    16. Esteban (950)
    17. Anonymous (Go to Toledo 1145)
    18. Sede suppressed (h. 1146-1980)

    Bishopric of the Asidonia-Jerez Diocese

  • 1. Rafael Bellido Caro (1980-2000)
  • 2. Juan del Río Martín (2000-2008)
  • 3. José Mazuelos Pérez (2009-)

    • Also Sees

  • Bishopric Asidonia-Jerez Diocese
  • Asidonia-Jerez Seminary Catholic

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Jerez de la Frontera Wikipedia
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