The Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria (Latin: Oxomen(sis)–Sorian(us)) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Burgos, Soria Province in the Castilla y Leon region of northern Spain.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción, dedicated to the Assumption, 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 Burgo de Osma
Established circa 600 as Diocese of Osma / Oxomen(sis) (Latin)Lost territory in 1077 to the Diocese of NájeraRenamed on 9 March 1959 as Diocese of Osma–Soria, as Soria gets a co-cathedralAs per 2014, it pastorally served 80,000 Catholics (85.8% of 93,291 total) on 10,287 km² in 542 parishes and 19 missions with 128 priests (103 diocesan, 25 religious), 212 lay religious (38 brothers, 174 sisters) and 1 seminarian.
(all Latin Rite)
very incomplete : lacking first centuries
Suffragan Bishops of OsmaPedro de Bourges, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1101 – death 1109.08.02)Raimundo (1109 – 1124), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1124 – death 1152)Beltrán (1126 – death 1140.10.01)Esteban (1141 – death 1147.09.01)Juan (1148 – death 1174.04.28)Bernardo (1174 – 1176)Miguel, O.S.B. (1177 – 1184)García (1185 – 1186)Martín Bazán (1188 – death 1201.07.27)Diego de Acebes (1201 – 1207.12.30)Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (1208 - 1208 ? 27 Feb 1209)Menendo (1210 – 1225)Pedro Ramírez de Piedrola (1225 – 1230), next Bishop of Pamplona (Spain) (1231 – death 1238.10.05)Juan (1231 – 1240.05.29), next Bishop of Burgos (Spain) (1240.05.29 – 1246)Pedro de Peñafiel (1241 – death 1246.04.12)Gil(les) (27 March 1247 - death 4 August 1261)Agustin Pérez (18 Oct 1261 - death 12 April 1286)Juan Alvarez (bishop) (4 May 1286 - death 20 Oct 1296)Juan Pérez de Ascaron (1296 – death 1329)Bernabé (1329.10.20 – death 1351), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1324.07.27 – 1329.10.20)Gonzalo (1351 – 1354)Alfonso Fernando de Toledo y Vargas, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (1354.10.25 – 1363.10.13), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Andalusia, southern Spain) (1363.10.13 – 1366); previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1353.02.13 – 1354.10.25)Lorenzo Pérez (1362.12.13 – death 1367)Pedro Gomez Barroso (19 July 1368 - 4 March 1373), next Bishop of Cuenca (Spain) (1373 – 1378)Juan García Palomeque (4 March 1373 - death 1374), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1354.10.25 – 1373.03.04)Juan de Villareal (1374 – death 1379.02.22)Pedro Fernández de Frías (21 March 1379 - resigned? 1404), also/next Pseudocardinal-Priest of S. Prassede (1396? – 1412.09.23▼), Archpriest of Papal Basilica of St. Peter (1412 – 1420.09.19▼), promoted Pseudocardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina (1412.09.23 – death 1420.09.19▼) but also Pseudocardinal-Priest of above S. Prassede in commendum (1412.09.23 – 1419.06.26?▼) and next Pseudocardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia in commendum (1419.06.26 – 1420.09.19▼)Apostolic Administrator Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz (28 Nov 1408 - death 14 March 1434), while Pseudocardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio (1408.09.22 – 1418.08.01▼); later (canoncial) Apostolic Administrator of Sigüenza (Spain) (1422 – ?), promoted Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quattro Coronati (1423.01 – death 1434.03.14), Archpriest of Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (1428 – 1434.03.14)Juan de Cerezuela y Luna (1422 – 1433), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Sevilla (Spain) (1433 – 1434), Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) (1434 – 1442)Pedro de Castilla de Eril (22 April 1433 - 6 April 1440), next Bishop of Palencia (Spain) (1440.04 – 1461.04.28)Roberto Moya (1440 – death 1453.11.13)Pedro García de Montoya (Huete) (9 Jan 1454 - death 18 Feb 1475)Francisco de Santillana (1475.05.04 – 1482.03.06), next Bishop of Córdoba (Spain) (1482.03.06 – 1482 not possessed)BIOs TO ELABORATE
Apostolic Administrator Pedro González de Mendoza (1482.07.08 – 1482.11)Raffaele Riario (1482-1492), Apostolic AdministratorAlfonso de Fonseca (1493-1505)Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop García de Chinchilla, O.P. (1500.09.18 – 1502)Alfonso Enríquez (19 December 1505 – 15 October 1523 )Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Blas de Fernando, O. Cist. (1507.04.19 – ?)Juan Pardo Tavera (31 December 1523 – 8 June 1524 )García de Loaysa y Mendoza, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (8 June 1524 – 23 February 1532 )Pedro González Manso (13 March 1532 – 12 February 1537 )Pedro Alvarez de Acosta (21 May 1539 – 20 February 1563 )Honorato Juan (1 March 1564 – 30 July 1566 )Francisco Tello Sandoval (3 March 1567 – 13 June 1578 )Alonso Velázquez (13 June 1578 – 9 March 1583)Sebastián Pérez (bishop) (9 May 1583 - 27 July 1593 Died)Martín Garnica (27 April 1594 - 20 November 1594 Died)Pedro Rojas Henríques, O.S.A. (30 August 1595 - 9 March 1602 Died)Enrique Enríquez de Almansa Manrique, O.S.A. (15 November 1602 – 21 June 1610)Fernando Acevedo González (Jul 1610 - 2 June 1613)Francisco de Sosa, O.F.M. (23 September 1613 - 1618 Died)Cristóbal de Lobera y Torres (9 July 1618 – 6 March 1623)Alsono Martín de Zuñiga (23 March 1623 - 21 June 1630 Died)Domingo Pimentel Zúñiga, O.P. (2 October 1630 – 18 July 1633)Francisco Villafañe (5 September 1633 - 26 August 1639 Died)Martín Carrillo Alderete (9 June 1636 – 1 July 1641)Antonio Valdés Herrera (21 October 1641 – 10 November 1653)Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (24 November 1653 - 1 October 1659 Died)Nicolás Martinez (bishop), O.S.H. † (21 Jun 1660 - 1 Oct 1660 Died)Alfonso Enríquez de Santo Tomás, O.P. (26 Sep 1661 - 28 Jan 1664 Confirmed, Bishop of Plasencia)Pedro de Godoy, O.P. (31 March 1664 - 16 May 1672 Confirmed, Bishop of Sigüenza)Antonio de Isla y Mena (8 August 1672 - 17 Dec 1681 Died)Sebastián de Arévalo y Torres, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (20 April 1682 - 20 Jan 1704 Died)Jorge Cárdenas Valenzuela (1704 - 18 November 1705 Died)Andrés Soto de la Fuente (22 March 1706 - 29 December 1714 Died)Felipe Antonio Gil Taboada (5 July 1715 – 4 March 1720)Miguel Herrero Esgueva (15 April 1720 – 20 January 1723)Jacinto Valledor Fresno (12 April 1723 - 12 February 1730 Died)José Barnuevo, O.S.B. (24 July 1730 - 25 July 1735 Died)Pedro de la Cuadra Achica (1 April 1736 – 7 September 1741 )Juan Antonio Oruña (28 September 1744 - 4 March 1748 Died)Pedro Clemente de Aróstegui (16 September 1747 – 29 August 1760 )Jacinto Aguado y Chacón (18 July 1762 – 27 March 1764 )Bernardo Antonio Calderón Lázaro (20 August 1764 – 15 October 1786 )Joaquín de Eleta, O.F.M. (27 December 1786 - 4 December 1788 Died)José Constancio Andino (29 March 1790 - Nov 1793 Died)Diego Melo Portugal, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (12 September 1794 – 18 December 1795)Antonio Tavira Almazán (27 June 1796 Appointed - 14 August 1798 )Francisco Ignacio Iñigo Angulo (25 September 1798 – 8 January 1799 )Juan Moya, O.F.M. (28 March 1799 – 19 February 1801 )José Antonio Garnica, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (23 February 1801 – 10 January 1810)Juan Cavia González (19 August 1814 – 23 December 1831 )Gregorio Sánchez y Jiménez (Rubio), Hieronymites (O.S.H.) (17 December 1847 – 27 September 1852 )Vicente Horcos y San Martín,Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (27 September 1852 – 13 January 1861)Pedro María Lagüera y Menezo (23 December 1861 - 1892 )Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez (15 June 1893 – 19 April 1897 )José María García Escudero y Ubago (19 April 1897 – 22 March 1909 )Manuel Lago y González (25 August 1909 – 4 May 1917 )Matteo Múgica y Urrestarazu (22 February 1918 – 26 October 1923 )Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (18 December 1924 – 28 January 1935 )Tomás Gutiérrez Diez (1 April 1935 – 11 November 1943 )Saturnino Rubio y Montiél (9 December 1944 - 1959 )Suffragan Bishops of Osma-Soria=Saturnino Rubio y Montiél (1959 - 4 December 1969 )Teodoro Cardenal Fernández (1 December 1969 – 19 October 1983 )José Diéguez Reboredo (1 September 1984 – 15 May 1987 )Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (6 November 1987 – 12 May 1995 )Francisco Pérez González (16 December 1995 – 30 October 2003 )Vicente Jiménez Zamora (21 May 2004 – 27 July 2007 )Gerardo Melgar Viciosa (1 May 2008 - 8 April 2016)Abilio Martínez Varea (5 January 2017 - ...)