Diocese of Fuerteventura

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the titular diocese of Fuerteventura see titular diocese of Fuerteventura .

The diocese of Fuerteventura was founded in 1424 as a result of the occidental schism . The diocese included the territory of the Canary Islands with the exception of the island of Lanzarote . In 1431 the diocese was dissolved and the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rubicón for the whole of the Canary Islands was restored.

prehistory

With the bull Coelestis rex regum of November 7th, 1351 Pope Clement VI. in the Canary Islands, the Diocese of the Happy Islands . The bishopric was Telde on the island of Gran Canaria . In 1393 slave traders raided the island. It is believed that the native people killed the European priests and monks in response. That led to the downfall of the diocese.

After the submission of the island of Lanzarote by Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de La Salle , the antipope Benedict XIII founded. with the Bull Romanos Pontifex of July 7, 1404, a new diocese for the Canary Islands on the island of Lanzarote , the diocese of San Marcial del Rubicón , without making any reference to the lost diocese of Telde.

Establishment of the diocese of Fuerteventura

After the death of the antipope Benedict XIII. In May 1423, the then Bishop of Rubicón, Mendo de Viedma, defended his rights to the episcopate before Pope Martin V in Rome. He then remained Bishop of Rubicón.

The Diocese of Fuerteventura was born on 20 November 1424 by the Bull Illius caelestis agricolae by Pope Martin V. founded. The diocese included the territory of the Canary Islands with the exception of the island of Lanzarote. The bishopric was in the city of Betancuria . Martin V called the Franciscan Martín de las Casas Bishop of Lanzarote. He never went to the Canary Islands. On December 14, 1433 he was appointed titular bishop of Malaga .

Dissolution of the diocese

After the death of Benedict XIII. appointed Bishop of Rubicón, Mendo de Viedma, in 1431, Pope Eugene IV called the Hieronymite Fernando Calvetos. With his assumption of office on Lanzarote, the unoccupied diocese on Fuerteventura was superfluous and was therefore abolished. The popes have appointed titular bishops for the titular bishopric of Fuerteventura since 1969 .

literature

Julio Sánchez Rodríguez: La Iglesia en las Islas Canarias . Gobierno de Canarias; Dirección General de Cultura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2004, ISBN 84-7947-377-0 , p. 102 (Spanish, [2] [accessed September 3, 2017]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antonio Rumeu de Armas: El obispado de Telde . Misioneros mallorquines y catalanes en el Atlántico. Ed .: Ayuntamiento de Telde Gobierno de Canarias. 2nd Edition. Gobierno de Canarias, Madrid, Telde 1986, ISBN 84-505-3921-8 , pp. 53/172 (Spanish).
2. ↑ Antonio Rumeu de Armas: El obispado de Telde . Misioneros mallorquines y catalanes en el Atlántico. Ed .: Ayuntamiento de Telde Gobierno de Canarias. 2nd Edition. Gobierno de Canarias, Madrid, Telde 1986, ISBN 84-505-3921-8 , pp. 201 (Spanish).
3. ^ Antonio Tejera Gaspar, Eduardo Aznar Vallejo: San Marcial de Rubicón: la primera ciudad europea de Canarias . Artemisa, La Laguna 2004, ISBN 84-96374-02-5 (Spanish).
4. ↑ Julio Sánchez Rodríguez: La Iglesia en las Islas Canarias . Gobierno de Canarias; Dirección General de Cultura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2004, ISBN 84-7947-377-0 , p. 22nd f . (Spanish, [1] [accessed September 3, 2017]).