Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón
| Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Spain |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Saragossa |
| Diocesan bishop | Ángel Javier Pérez Pueyo |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Alfonso Milián Sorribas |
| Vicar General | Pedro Escartín Celaya |
| founding | 17th September 1995 |
| surface | 8,321 km² |
| Parishes | 274 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| Residents | 102,580 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| Catholics | 95,498 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| proportion of | 93.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 70 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| Religious priest | 27 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 985 |
| Friars | 38 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| Religious sisters | 132 (December 31, 2006 / AP 2007 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish , Catalan |
| cathedral | Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción in Barbastro |
| Co-cathedral | Concatedral de Santa María del Romeral in Monzón Antigua catedral de San Vicente y San Valero in Roda de Isábena |
| address | Obispado Juan de Lanuza 6 22300 Barbastro-Huesca España |
| Website | http://www.diocesisbarbastromonzon.org/ |
The diocese of Barbastro-Monzón ( Latin : Dioecesis Barbastrensis-Montisonensis , Spanish : Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Barbastro in Spain .
The diocese was founded in the 12th century as the diocese of Barbastro . Pope John Paul II renamed the diocese on June 15, 1995 to the diocese of Barbastro-Monzón . It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saragossa .
Ordinaries
from 1950
- 1950 Arturo Tabera Araoz CMF , later Bishop of Albacete
- 1951–1953 Pedro Cantero Cuadrado , later Bishop of Huelva
- 1954–1959 Segundo Garcia de Sierra y Méndez , later coadjutor-archbishop of Oviedo
- 1960–1970 Jaime Flores Martin
- 1970–1974 Damián Iguacén Borau , later Bishop of Teruel-Albarracín
- 1974-1999 Ambrosio Echebarria Arroita
- 1999–2004 Juan José Omella Omella , later Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño
- 2004–2014 Alfonso Milián Sorribas
- since 2014 Ángel Javier Pérez Pueyo
See also
Web links
Commons : Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry for the Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Historia. Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón, accessed December 6, 2017 (Spanish)
Cathedral of Santa María de la Asunción in Barbastro
Santa María del Romeral Co- cathedral in Monzón
