Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón Dioecesis Segobricensis-Castillionensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Ecclesiastical province | Valencia |
| Metropolitan | Valencia |
| Coordinates | 39°51′08″N0°29′18″W / 39.8523°N 0.4883°W /39.8523; -0.4883 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Cathedral | Segorbe Cathedral |
| Co-cathedral | Castelló Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | Casimiro López Llorente |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Antonio Cañizares Llovera |
TheDiocese of Segorbe-Castellón (Latin:Dioecesis Segobricensis-Castillionensis;Valencian:Diòcesi de Sogorb-Castelló) is aLatin Churchdiocese of theCatholic Church located in north-easternSpain, in theprovince ofCastellón, part of theautonomous community ofValencia. The diocese forms part of theecclesiastical province of Valencia, and is thussuffragan to theArchdiocese of Valencia.
No name of any Bishop of Segorbe is known earlier than Proculus, who signed in theThird Council of Toledo (589). He was followed by a succession of bishop until Anterius, who attended thefifteenth (688) and thesixteenth (693). After this, there is no information of its bishops until the Arab invasion, when its church was converted into amosque.[1]
In 1172Pedro Ruiz de Azagra, second son of the Lord of Estella, held the city ofAlbarracín, and succeeded in establishing there a bishop. Pedro's refusal to recognise Aragonese sovereignty extended to his bishop, Martin, who refused to recognise the supremacy of theBishop of Zaragoza, though ordered to do so by the pope.[2] Instead, Martin swore allegiance to theMetropolitan of Toledo. Four years later, Martin took instead the title of Bishop ofSegorbe.[3] This choice of name follows the ideology of theReconquest, according to which the bishops were simply restoring the old Christian entities only temporarily taken over by theMoors. In this way, the city of Albarracín became the seat of the bishops of Segorbe.
When Segorbe was conquered by the kingJames I of Aragon in 1245, the cathedral seat was relocated from Albarracín to Segorbe. There arose serious territorial disputes with theArchdiocese of Valencia which claimed rights over several churches in Segorbe. The Bishop of Valencia,Arnau of Peralta, entered the church of Segorbe by force and expelled the prelate. The controversy being referred toRome, Rome agreed with the Bishop of Segorbe-Albarracín. In 1318Pope John XXII raised the see of Zaragoza to an Archdiocese, with the diocese of Segorbe-Albarracín as a suffragan.[3]
TheCathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady of Segorbe, once amosque, was reconsecrated in 1534,[4]and in 1795 the nave was lengthened, and new altars added, in the episcopate of Lorenzo Gómez de Haedo.Amadó,[1]
In 1577,Pope Gregory XIII, at the urging ofPhilip II of Spain, separated Albarracín and Segorbe. The terms of the papal bull specified that Segorbe belonged to the Kingdom of Valencia and Albarracín to that of Aragón. The order was well received in Albarracín, but not in Segorbe. The new bishopric of Albarracín was proclaimed a suffragan of Zaragoza, while that of Segorbe was of Valencia.[3]
In 1960 thesee became the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón. Following theDe mutatione finium Dioecesium Valentinae-Segorbicensis-Dertotensis decree, of 31 May 1960, the parishes belonging to theProvince of València were dismembered and aggregated to theArchdiocese of Valencia. On the other hand, theNules,Vila-real,Castelló de la Plana,Lucena andAlbocàsser parishes that had belonged to theRoman Catholic Diocese of Tortosa were aggregated to the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón along with the parish ofBetxí.
The Cathedral was elevated to the rank ofminor basilica in 1985.[5] Its time-stained tower and its cloister are built on a trapezoidal ground plan. It is connected by a bridge with the old episcopal palace. The Cathedral Museum is located in the upper cloister and its adjacent rooms.[6]
Episcopal see suppressed (unknown–1173)
Bishops of Segorbe with seat inAlbarracín. All the names are given inSpanish:
All the names are given inSpanish:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Segorbe".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.| Province of Barcelona |  | |
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