Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz

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Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz

Map of the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz
Basic data
Country Spain
Diocesan bishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta
Emeritus diocesan bishop Antonio Montero Moreno
founding July 28, 1994
surface 17,405 km²
Dean's offices 17 (2009)
Parishes 217 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Residents 596,800 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics 587,700 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
proportion of 98.5%
Diocesan priest 272 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious priest 40 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics per priest 1,884
Friars 47 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious sisters 606 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral San Juan Bautista (Badajoz)
Co-cathedral Santa María del Castillo (Mérida)
Website www3.archimeridabadajoz.org
Suffragan dioceses Coria-Cáceres
Plasencia
Ecclesiastical province
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The Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz ( Latin : Archidioecesis Emeritensis Augustanus-Pacensis ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Autonomous Region of Extremadura in Spain with its headquarters in Mérida and Badajoz .

history

Badajoz Cathedral

The oldest surviving document that mentions the Metropolitan Province of “ Emerita Augusta ” is a letter from St. Cyprian to the clergy and people of Emerita Augusta and dates from the 3rd century . The territory of the ecclesiastical province extended over large parts of Portugal to Salamanca and Ávila .

In 1119, with the elevation of the diocese of Santiago de Compostela to the archbishopric, all rights and privileges as well as the seats of the suffragan dioceses were transferred from Mérida, under Muslim rule, to the new archdiocese until Mérida would be recaptured and the archbishopric could be restored. Although the city was wrested from Muslim rule in 1228, the metropolitan seat could not be restored. Instead, bishops were appointed for Mérida and Badajoz.

On June 28, 1994, Pope John Paul II established the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz with the Apostolic Constitution Universae Ecclesiae sustinentes and assigned him the dioceses of Coria-Cáceres and Plasencia as Suffragandiocese.

See also

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Universae Ecclesiae sustinentes , AAS 86 (1994), n.12, pp. 936f.