Country Spain Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area 52 km² Local time Monday 3:02 PM | Autonomous community Castile and León Elevation 948 m Population 134 (2014) Province Province of Burgos | |
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Municipality Villafranca Montes de Oca Weather 14°C, Wind NE at 8 km/h, 41% Humidity | ||
Villafranca Montes de Oca is a municipality, former medieval bishopric and present Latin titular see located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, northern Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 164 inhabitants.
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Map of 09257 Villafranca Montes de Oca, Burgos, Spain
Ecclesiastical history
, with incumbents
It was originally known as Oca (Latin: Auca) and was the seat of a (Latin Catholic) bishopric, precursor of the present the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos, established no later then 589, when its bishop Asterio attended the Third Council of Toledo, but vaguer notitions may trace it back as early as the 3rd century AD. Monastic life flourished there during the Visigothic Catholic Kingdom of Toledo (6th-8th century).
However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at Amaya, Valpuesta, Muñó, Sasamón, Oña, Gamonal, only to have their 'see' formally suppressed to restore definitively the Diocese of Burgos in 1075, confirmed by Pope Urban II en 1095.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as a titular bishopric of Auca (Curiate Latin and Italian), Latin (adjective dioecesis) Aucen(sis).