Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz
Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz
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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
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
- Entry on Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Official site of the Archdiocese (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Universae Ecclesiae sustinentes , AAS 86 (1994), n.12, pp. 936f.