Diocese of Lleida
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The Diocese of Lleida or Lérida (Latin, Ilerdensis) is located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Lleida, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The diocese forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona, and is thus suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tarragona.
The diocese of Lleida (its Catalan name, the Spanish one is Lérida) was created in the 3rd century. After the Moorish conquest of Lleida in 716 the episcopal see was moved to Roda (until 1101) and then to Barbastro (1101-1149). The city of Lleida was conquered from the Moors by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1149, and the see was again transferred to its original seat.
Lérida is the second city in Catalonia, built on the right bank of the River Segra, about 100 miles from Barcelona. The town is oriental in appearance, and its streets are narrow and crooked. The population in 1900 was 23,683. The old Byzantine-Gothic Cathedral, of which the ruins are to be seen on the citadel, dates from 1203. During the Middle Ages the University of Lleida was famous; in 1717 it was suppressed, and united with Cervara.
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[edit] History
[edit] Roman period:
Lérida was the Roman Ilerda, or Herda. During the Punic Wars it sided with the Carthaginians; near it Hanno the Elder was defeated by Scipio in 216 B.C., and Julius Cæsar defeated Pompey's forces in 49 B.C.
La Canal says that the diocese was erected in 600, but others maintain it goes back to the third century, and there is mention of a St. Lycerius, or Glycerius, as Bishop of Lérida in A.D. 269.
[edit] Visigoth and Muslim period (until 1149):
In 514 or 524 a council attended by eight bishops passed decrees forbidding the taking up of arms or the shedding of blood by clerics. A provincial council in 546 regulated ecclesiastical discipline.
The signatures of other bishops of Lérida are attached to various councils up to the year 716, when the Moors took possession of the town, and the see was removed to Roda. An unbroken list of bishops of Lérida goes back to the year 887.
In 1101 King Pedro I of Aragon took the city of Barbastro from the Moors and transferred the see from Roda to Barbastro. The first bishop, Poncio, went to Rome to obtain the pope's permission for this transfer.
[edit] Diocese of Lleida (from 1149):
The city of Lérida was conquered from the Moors by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1149, and the episcopal see was again transferred to its original seat.
A council in 1173 was presided over by Cardinal Giacinto Bobone, who afterwards became Pope Celestine III. A council in 1246 absolved king James I of Aragon from the sacrilege of cutting out the tongue of the Bishop of Gerona.
The seminary was founded in 1722.
During the Peninsular War the French held it (1810), and in 1823 Spain once more obtained possession of it. Owing to its natural position its strategic value has always been very great, and it was strongly fortified in 1910.
The cathedral chapter prior to the Concordat of 1851 consisted of 6 dignities, 24 canons, 22 benefices, but after the concordat the number was reduced to 16 canons and 12 beneficed clerics.
In 1910 the Catholic population of the diocese was 185,000 souls scattered over 395 parishes and ministered to by 598 priests. Besides 395 churches for public worship, there were in the diocese five religious communities of men, six of women, and several hospitals in charge of nuns. The seminary accommodated 500 students.
[edit] Bishops of Lleida (6th to 9th centiries)
All the names (except the first one) are given in Spanish:
- ca. 269 : St. Lycerius or Glycerius — (Mentioned in 269)
- ca. 516 : Oroncio — (Mentioned between 516 and 517)
- ca. 519 : Pedro
- ca. 540 : Andrés — (Mentioned in 540)
- ca. 546 : Februario — (Mentioned in 546)
- ca. 589 : Polibio — (Mentioned in 589)
- ca. 592 : Julián — (Mentioned in 592)
- ca. 599 : Amelio — (Mentioned in 599)
- ca. 614 : Gomarelo — (Mentioned in 614)
- ca. 635 : Fructuoso — (Mentioned between 633 and 638)
- ca. 653 : Gandeleno — (Mentioned in 653)
- ca. 690 : Eusendo — (Mentioned between 683 and 693)
- ca. 715 : Esteban — (before 714 - after 719)
- ca. 780 : San Merardo — (after 778)
- ca. 842 : Jacobo
After the Moorish conquest the Diocese of Lleida is transferred to Roda.
[edit] Bishops of Roda (until 1101)
After the Moorish conquest the Diocese of Lleida is transferred to Roda. All the names are given in Spanish:
- 887-922 : Adulfo — (since before 887 to 922)
- 923-955 : Atón
- 955-975 : Odisendo
- 988-991 : Aimerico — (since before 988 to 991)
- 996---?--- : Jacobo — (since before 996)
- 1006-1015 : Aimerico II — (since before 1006 to 1015)
- 1017-1019 : Borrell
- 1023-1067 : Arnulfo
- 1068-1075 : Salomón
- 1075-1076 : Arnulfo II
- 1076-1094 : Pedro Ramón Dalmacio
- 1094-1096 : Lupo
- 1097-1100 : Poncio
In 1101 the Diocese of Roda is transferred to Barbastro.
[edit] Bishops of Barbastro-Roda (1101 - 1149)
In 1101 the Diocese of Roda is transferred to Barbastro. All the names are given in Spanish:
- 1101-1104 : Poncio
- 1104-1126 : St. Ramón — (named Ramón II in the Catholic Encyclopedia)
- ---------1126 : Esteban
- 1126-1134: Pedro Guillermo
- 1134 : Ramiro, a prince of the royal house of Aragon — (Elected)
- 1135-1143 : Gaufrido
- 1143-1149 : Guillermo Pérez de Ravitats
In 1149 the episcopal see returned to Lleida.
[edit] Bishops of Lleida (since 1149)
In 1149 the episcopal see returned to Lleida.
- 1149-1176 : Guillermo Pérez de Ravitats
- 1177-1190 : Guillermo Berenguer
- 1191-1205 : Gombaldo de Camporells
- 1205-1235 : Berenguer de Erill
- 1236-1238 : Pedro de Albalate
- 1238-1247 : Ramón de Siscar
- 1248-1255 : Guillermo de Barberá
- ---------1256 : Berenguer de Peralta
- 1257-1278 : Guillermo de Moncada
- 1282-c.1286 Guillermo Bernáldez de Fluviá — (1282 - before 1286)
- 1290-1298 : Gerardo de Andria
- 1299-1308 : Pedro del Rey
- 1308-1313 : Ponce de Aquilaniu
- 1314-1321 : Guillermo de Aranyó — (before 1314 - 1321)
- 1322-1324 : Ponce de Villamur
- 1324-1327 : Ramón de Avignó
- 1327-1334 : Arnaldo de Cescomes
- 1334-1340 : Ferrer de Colom
- 1341-1348 : Jaime Sitjó
- 1348-1360 : Esteban Mulceo
- 1361-1380 : Romeo de Cescomes
- 1380-1386 : Ramón
- 1387-1399 : Geraldo de Requesens
- ---------1399 : Pedro de San Clemente
- ---------1403 : Juan de Baufés
- 1403-1407 : Pedro Zagarriga
- 1407-1411 : Pedro de Cardona
- 1415-1434 : Domingo Ram y Lanaja
- 1435-1449 : García Aznárez de Añon
- 1449-1459 : Antonio Cerdá
- 1459-1510 : Luis Juan del Milá
- 1510-1512 : Juan de Enguera
- 1512-1542 : Jaime Conchillos
- ---------1542 : Martín Valero
- 1543-1553 : Fernando de Loaces y Pérez
- 1553-1554 : Juan Arias
- 1556-1559 : Miguel Despuig
- 1561-1576 : Antonio Agustín y Albanell
- 1577-1578 : Miguel Tomás de Taxaquet
- 1580-1581 : Carlos Domenech
- 1583-1585 : Benito de Tocco
- 1585-1586 : Gaspar Juan de la Figuera
- 1586-1591 : Juan Martínez de Villatoriel — (Inquisitor General).
- 1592-1597 : Pedro de Aragón
- 1599-1620 : Francisco Virgili
- 1621-1632 : Pedro Antón Serra
- ---------1633 : Antonio Pérez y Maxo
- ---------1634 : Pedro de Magarola y Fontanet
- 1635-1642 : Bernardo Caballero de Paredes
- 1644-1650 : Pedro de Santiago
- 1656-1664 : Miguel de Escartín
- 1664-1667 : Braulio Sunyer
- 1668-1673 : José Minot
- 1673-1680 : Jaime de Copons
- 1680-1681 : Francisco Berardo
- 1682-1698 : Miguel Jerónimo de Molina
- 1699-1700 : Juan de Santamaría Alonso y Valeria
- 1701-1714 : Francisco de Solís
- 1714-1735 : Francisco de Olasso Hipenza
- 1736-1756 : Gregorio Galindo
- 1757-1770 : Manuel Macías Pedrejón
- 1771-1783 : Joaquín Antonio Sánchez Ferragudo
- 1783-1816 : Jerónimo María de Torres
- 1816-1817 : Manuel del Villar
- ---------1818 : Remigio Lasanta Ortega
- 1819-1824 : Simón Antonio de Rentería y Reyes
- 1824-1832 : Pablo Colmenares
- 1833-1844 : Julián Alonso
- 1848-1850 : José Domingo Costa y Borrás
- 1850-1861 : Pedro Cirilo Uriz y Labayru
- 1862-1870 : Mariano Puigllat y Amigó
- 1875-1889 : Tomás Costa y Fornaguera
- 1889-1905 : José Meseguer y Costa
- 1905-1914 : Juan Antonio Ruano y Martín, born at Gijude del Barro, in the Diocese of Salamanca, 3 Nov., 1848, appointed titular bishop of Claudiopolis, and Administrator of Barbastro, 3 Nov., 1898 and transferred to Lérida, 14 Dec., 1905.
- 1914-1925 : José Miralles Sbert
- 1926-1930 : Manuel Irurita Almandoz
- 1935-1936 : Salvio Huix Miralpeix
- 1938-1943 : Manuel Moll y Salord
- 1944-1947 : Juan Villar Sanz
- 1947-1967 : Aurelio del Pino Gómez
- 1968-1999 : Ramón Malla Call
- 1999-today : Francisco Javier Ciuraneta Aymí
[edit] References
This article draws only from other Wikipedia articles and these four sources:
- (English) Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910 and 1907: Lérida and Barbastro
- (Spanish) IBERCRONOX: Obispado de Lérida (Ilerda) and Obispado de Barbastro-Monzón
[edit] See also
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
