Roman Catholic Diocese of Tudela

The Catholic Diocese of Tudela was a modern Latin bishopric with see in Tudela, Navarre, northern Spain, which existed 1783-1851 and again 1889-1956, each time being split off from the Pamplona see or reunited with it.

History

• Established on 1783.03.27 as Diocese of Tudela / Tudelen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamplona.
• Suppressed on 1851.09.05, territory and title merged (back) into the henceforth Diocese of Pamplona–Tudela.
• Restored on 1889.07.17 as Diocese of Tudela / Tudelen(sis) (Latin), split off again from Diocese of Pamplona–Tudela. It has often been vacant except for an apostolic administrator.
• On 1984.08.11 it was again effectively suppressed, but formally in personal union (aeque principaliter) with Pamplona y Tudela, so it kept its cathedral, which was not even relegated to co-cathedral.

Episcopal Ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Tudela

• Francisco Ramón Larumbre (1784.06.25 – death 1796.09.01)
• Simón Casaviella López (1797.07.24 – death 1816.03.30)
• Juan Raimundo Santos Larumbe y Larrayoz (1817.04.14 – death 1818.10.03)
• Ramón María Azpeitia de y Sáenz de Santamaria (1819.03.29 – death 1844.01.31)
• Apostolic Administrator Juan Soldevilla y Romero (1889.07.17 – 1901.12.16), while Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1889.02.14 – 1901.12.16); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Zaragoza (Spain) (1901.12.16 – death 1923.06.04), also Apostolic Administrator of Huesca (Spain) (1916 – 1918.12.04), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria del Popolo (1920.04.22 – 1923.06.04)
• Apostolic Administrator José Maria Salvador y Barrera (1901.12.16 – 1905.12.14) while Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1901.12.16 – 1905.12.14); later Bishop of Madrid y Alcalá de Henares (Spain) (1905.12.14 – 1916.12.14), Metropolitan Archbishop of Valencia (Spain) (1916.12.14 – death 1919.09.04)
• Apostolic Administrator Santiago Ozcoidi y Udave (1905.12.14 – death 1916.10.09), while Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1905.12.14 – 1916.10.09)
• Apostolic Administrator Isidoro Badía y Sarradel (1917.06.27 – death 1926.10.01) while Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1917.06.27 – 1926.10.01); previously Titular Bishop of Ascalon (1903.01.09 – 1917.06.27) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (Spain) (1903.01.09 – 1907.07.03) and Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro (Spain) (1907.07.03 – 1917.06.27)
• Apostolic Administrator Nicanor Mutiloa e Irurita, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1935.05.01 – death 1946.11.19), while Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1935.05.01 – 1946.11.19); previously Titular Bishop of Hieropolis (1927.11.17 – 1935.05.01) as Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro (1927.11.17 – 1935.05.01)
• Manuel Hurtado y García (1947.04.24 – 1955.09.02), previously Titular Bishop of Bilta (1943.01.13 – 1947.04.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Granada (Andalusia, Spain) (1943.01.13 – 1947.04.24); later Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1947.04.24 – death 1966.01.12)
• Apostolic Administrator Enrique Delgado y Gómez (1955.09.02 – retired 1968.07.23), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona (Basque Spain) (1946.10.26 – 1968.07.23); previously Bishop of Almería (Spain) (1943.06.10 – 1946.10.26); emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Bitetto (1968.07.23 – resigned 1970.12.11), died 1978
• Apostolic Administrator Arturo Tabera Araoz, Claretians (C.M.F.) (1968.07.23 – 1971.12.04), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona (Spain) (1968.07.23 – 1971.12.04), created [[Cardinal-Priest] of S. Pietro in Montorio (1969.04.30 –death 1975.06.13); previously Titular Bishop of Lyrbe (1946.02.16 – 1950.02.02) as Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro (Spain) (1946.02.16 – 1950.02.02), succeeding as Bishop of Barbastro (1950.02.02 – 1950.05.13), Bishop of Albacete (Spain) (1950.05.13 – 1968.07.23); later Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship (1971.02.20 – 1973.09.08), Prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Religious and Secular Institutes (1973.09.08 – 1975.06.13)
• Apostolic Administrator José Méndez Asensio (1971.12.03 – 1978.01.31), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona (Spain) (1971.12.03 – 1978.01.31); previously Bishop of Tarazona (Spain) (1968.07.22 – 1971.12.03); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Archdiocese of Granada (Spain) (1978.01.31 – retired 1996.12.10), died 2006
• Apostolic Administrator José María Cirarda Lachiondo (1978.01.31 – 1984.08.11), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Pamplona y Tudela (Spain) (1978.01.31 – 1993.03.26), Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Spain (1978 – 1981); previously Titular Bishop of Drusiliana (1960.04.09 – 1968.07.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Sevilla (Spain) (1960.04.09 – 1968.07.22), Bishop of Santander (Spain) (1968.07.22 – 1971.12.03), Bishop of Córdoba (Spain) (1971.12.03 – 1978.01.31).

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Spain, Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar

Sources and external links

• GCatholic, with Google satellite photo