Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona

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Diocese of Girona

Dioecesis Gerundensis

Diòcesi de Girona (ca)
Diócesis de Gerona (es)
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Location
Country Spain
Ecclesiastical province Tarragona
Metropolitan Tarragona
Statistics
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Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2006)
740,214
630,000 (85.1%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Latin Rite
Established 4th Century
Cathedral Cathedral of Mary Mother of God in Girona
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Francisco Pardo Artigas
Metropolitan Archbishop Jaume Pujol Balcells
Emeritus Bishops Jaume Camprodon Rovira Bishop Emeritus (1973-2001)
Carles Soler Perdigó Bishop Emeritus (2001-2008)
Map
Colored map of the diocese of Gerona. The different colors show the limits of arxiprestats that the diocese was divided in 2011. Some neighboring towns may be assigned to different parishes, arxiprestats or even to another diocese.
Colored map of the diocese of Gerona. The different colors show the limits of arxiprestats that the diocese was divided in 2011. Some neighboring towns may be assigned to different parishes, arxiprestats or even to another diocese.
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Girona (Latin: Gerunden(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Girona in the Ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain.

History

The first historical mention of a Christian diocese in Girona is in a paper for Pope Innocent I in 397-400.[1] On 18 June, 517, a synod convened here was attended by the Archbishop of Tarragona and six bishops; canons were promulgated dealing with the recitation of the Divine Office, infant baptism and the celibacy of the clergy.

About 885 Bishop Ingobert of Urgell was expelled from his see by the intruder Selva, who, under the protection of the Count of Urgell, was consecrated in Gascony. This usurper also unlawfully placed Hermemiro over the see of Girona. In 892 a synod was held in the Church of Santa Maria in Urgell; the two usurpers were deposed, their vestments rent, their crosiers broken over their heads, and they were deprived of their sacerdotal faculties.

A council held in Lleida in 1246 absolved James I of Aragon from the sacrilege of cutting out the tongue of the Bishop of Girona. Another synod at Girona in 1078 affirmed the nullity of simoniacal ordinations.

Honoured with papal prerogatives relating to the pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela, the Church of Le Puy assumed a sort of informal primacy in respect to most of the Churches of France, and even of Christendom, manifesting itself practically in a 'right to beg', established with the authorization of the Holy See, in virtue of which the chapter of Le Puy levied a veritable tax upon almost all the Christian countries to support its hospital of Notre-Dame. In Catalonia this droit de quête, recognized by Spanish Crown, was so thoroughly established that the chapter had its collectors permanently installed in that country.

A famous "fraternity" existed between the chapter of Le Puy and that of Girona in Catalonia. The earliest document in which it is mentioned dates only from 1470, and it involves that at this date the chapter of Girona, in order to escape the financial thraldom which bound it, like many Catalonian Churches, to the chapter of Le Puy, alleged its "fraternity" involving its equality—with the Church of Le Puy. In 1479 and in 1481 Pierre Bouvier, a canon of Le Puy, came to Girona, where the canons invoked against him a legend according to which Charlemagne had taken Girona, rebuilt its cathedral, given it a canon of Le Puy for a bishop, and established a fraternity between chapters of Girona and Le Puy. Based on this legend they appealed to the liturgical Office which they chanted for the feast of Charlemagne—an Office, dating from 1345, but in which they had recently inserted these tales of the Church of LePuy. In 1484 Sixtus IV prohibited the use of this Office, whereupon there appeared at Girona the "Tractatus de captione Gerunde", reaffirming the Girona legend about the fraternity with Le Puy.

Down to the last days of the old regime the two chapters frequently exchanged courtesies; canons of Le Puy passing through Girona and canons of Girona passing through Le Puy enjoyed special privileges. In 1883 the removal by the Bishop of Girona of the statue of Charlemagne from that cathedral marked the definitive collapse of the whole fabric of legends out of which the hermandad (brotherhood) between Le Puy and Girona had grown.

On April 10, 1992 the diocese was renamed as Diocese of Girona.

Special churches

Leadership

  • Bishops of Girona (Roman rite)
  • Berenguer de Llers (1147 - 1160 Died)
. . .
  • Gilberto Cruilles (12 Oct 1334 - 12 Jun 1335 Died)
. . .
  • Berenguer Cruilles (3 Dec 1348 - 26 Jul 1362 Died)
  • Íñigo Vallterra Sánchez de Heredia (26 Aug 1362 - 3 Mar 1369 Appointed, Bishop of Segorbe-Albarracin)
. . .
  • Berenguer de Anglesola (14 Dec 1384 - 23 Aug 1408 Died)
. . .
. . .
  • Rodrigo de Borja (1457 - 30 Jun 1458 Appointed, Administrator of Valencia)
  • Cosme de Montserrat 1458 - 1459 Appointed, Bishop of Vic)
  • Jaume Francesco de Cardona i de Aragón (15 Oct 1459 - 23 Sep 1461 Appointed, Bishop of Urgell)
  • Juan Margarit i Pau (23 Sep 1461 - 21 Nov 1484 Died)
  • Berenguer de Pau (1486 - 1506 Died)
  • Juan de Espés (19 Feb 1507 - 6 Sep 1508 Resigned)
  • Guillermo Raimundo Boil, O.S.H. (28 Jul 1508 - 28 Nov 1532 Died)
  • Juan Margarit (8 Jun 1534 - 21 Oct 1554 Died)
  • Gonzalo Arias Gallego (13 Apr 1556 - 22 Aug 1565 Appointed, Bishop of Cartagena (en España))
  • Pedro Carlos, O.S. (22 Aug 1565 - 1 Jun 1572 Died)
  • Benito Tocco, O.S.B. (5 Sep 1572 - 11 May 1583 Appointed, Bishop of Lerida)
  • Jaime Casador (12 Dec 1583 - 19 May 1597 Died)
  • Francisco Arévalo de Zuaco (3 Apr 1598 - 10 Jan 1611 Died)
  • Onofre Reart (19 Dec 1611 - 17 Feb 1621 Resigned)
  • Pedro Moncada (14 Dec 1620 - 31 Dec 1621 Died)
  • Francesc Senjust, O.S.B. (24 Aug 1622 - 10 Mar 1627 Died)
  • García Gil Manrique (30 Aug 1627 - 28 Nov 1633 Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona)
  • Gregorio Parcero de Castro, O.S.B. (19 Dec 1633 - 29 Nov 1655 Appointed, Bishop of Tortosa)
  • Bernardo Cardona (24 Jul 1656 - 13 Dec 1658 Died)
  • Francisco Pijoan (10 Nov 1659 - 1660 Died)
  • José Fageda, O.S.H. (21 Jun 1660 - 21 Jul 1664 Appointed, Bishop of Tortosa)
  • José Ninot y Bardera (24 Nov 1664 - 11 Jun 1668 Appointed, Bishop of Lerida)
  • Alonso Francisco Dou (3 Sep 1668 - 15 Apr 1673 Died)
  • Alfonso de Balmaseda, O.S.A. (25 Sep 1673 - 4 Sep 1679 Confirmed, Bishop of Zamora)
  • Severo Tomás Auter, O.P. (13 Nov 1679 - 18 Mar 1686 Confirmed, Bishop of Tortosa)
  • Miguel Pontich, O.F.M. (29 Apr 1686 - 26 Jan 1699 Died)
  • Miguel Juan de Taverner y Rubí (5 Oct 1699 - 16 Dec 1720 Appointed, Archbishop of Tarragona)
  • José Taberner (Taverner) Dárdena (16 Dec 1720 - 16 Jan 1726 Died)
  • Pedro Copóns Copóns † (11 Sep 1726 - 15 Dec 1728 Appointed,Archbishop of Tarragona)
  • Baltasar Bastero Lladó (15 Dec 1728 - 2 Mar 1745 Resigned)
  • Lorenzo Taranco Mujaurrieta (8 Mar 1745 - 3 Feb 1756 Died)
  • Manuel Antonio Palmero y Rallo (19 Jul 1756 - 7 May 1774 Died)
  • Tomás Lorenzana Butrón (13 Mar 1775 - 21 Jan 1796 Died)
  • Santiago Pérez Arenillas (27 Jun 1796 - 17 Oct 1797 Died)
  • Juan Agapito Ramírez Arellano (28 Aug 1798 - 21 Dec 1810 Died)
  • Pedro Valero (15 Mar 1815 - 21 Aug 1815 Died)
  • Antonio Allué y Sesse (14 Apr 1817 - 25 Jul 1818 Resigned)
  • Juan Miguel Pérez González (4 Jun 1819 - 7 Dec 1824 Died)
  • Dionisio Castaño y Bermúdez (27 Jun 1825 - 24 Apr 1834 Died)
  • Florencio Llorente y Montón (17 Dec 1847 - 17 Jan 1862 Died)
  • Constantino Bonet y Zanuy (21 May 1862 - 17 Sep 1875 Confirmed, Archbishop of Tarragona)
  • Isidoro Valls y Pascual (23 Sep 1875 - 11 Sep 1877 Died)
  • Tomás Sivilla y Gener (31 Dec 1877 - 8 Jan 1906 Died)
  • Francisco de Pol y Baralt (6 Dec 1906 - 6 Jun 1914 Died)
  • Francisco de Paula Mas y Oliver (10 Apr 1915 - 16 Apr 1920 Died)
  • Gabriel Llompart y Jaume Santandreu (27 Jun 1922 - 30 Apr 1925 Appointed, Bishop of Mallorca)
  • José Vila y Martínez (14 Dec 1925 - 1 Sep 1932 Died)
  • José Cartaña y Inglés (29 Dec 1933 - 1 Aug 1963 Died)
  • Narciso Jubany Arnau (7 Feb 1964 - 3 Dec 1971 Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona)
  • Jaume Camprodon Rovira (1 Sep 1973 - 30 Oct 2001 Retired)
  • Carles Soler Perdigó (30 Oct 2001 - 16 Jul 2008 Retired)
  • Francisco Pardo Artigas (16 Jul 2008 - )

See also

References

  1. ↑ Official website history page

Source

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