Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valladolid (original) (raw)

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Roman Catholic archdiocese in Spain

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Valladolid__Archidioecesis Metropolitae Vallisoletanus_Archidiócesis Metropolitano de Valladolid
Valladolid Cathedral
Location
Country Spain
Ecclesiastical province Valladolid
Statistics
Area 8,172 km2 (3,155 sq mi)
Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2010)533,561453,527 (85%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 25 September 1595 (As Diocese of Valladolid)4 July 1857 (As Archdiocese of Valladolid)
Cathedral Cathedral of the Assumption and St Lawrence in Valladolid
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop Luis Javier Argüello García
Suffragans Diocese of ÁvilaDiocese of Ciudad RodrigoDiocese of SalamancaDiocese of SegoviaDiocese of Zamora
Bishops emeritus Ricardo Blázquez
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

Coat of arms of the archdiocese

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Valladolid (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Vallisoletanus) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain, elevated from the rank of diocese in 1857.[1][2]

The seat of the archbishop is the Cathedral of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. Valladolid also houses the National Sanctuary of the Gran Promesa.[a]

It was erected as the Diocese of Valladolid on 25 December 1595, by the bull Pro excellenti of Pope Clement VIII, from the territory of the Diocese of Palencia. The creation of the diocese put an end to the centuries-old conflict between the Abbot of Valladolid and the Bishop of Palencia.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption was consecrated in 1668. Following the Concordat of 1851 between Spain and the Holy See, the diocese was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese by Pope Pius IX on July 4, 1857, with the suffragan sees of Ávila, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Segovia, and Zamora. The diocesan seminary was founded in 1855. In 1955 the territory of the diocese was considerably enlarged.

  1. ^ "A 17th-century church in Valladolid that had formerly served as the chapel of the Jesuit College of St. Ambrose; the parish Church of St. Stephen, and the Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Heart was rededicated as the National Sanctuary of la Gran Promesa in 1941 to commemorate an especially Spanish devotion to the Sacred Heart propagated by the 18th century Jesuit Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos de Seña

  2. ^ "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Valladolid" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016

  3. ^ "Archdiocese of Valladolid" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016

  4. ^ "Bishop Enrique Pimentel Zúñiga" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 27, 2016

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