Diocese of Vitoria, Spain 🇪🇸 (original) (raw)

Celebrations

History

• 1861.09.08: Established as Diocese of Vitoria / Victorien(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Burgos, Diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada, Diocese of Pamplona–Tudela and Diocese of Santander and became suffragan of Burgos)
• 1949.11.02: Gained territory from Diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada and lost territory to establish Diocese of Bilbao and Diocese of San Sebastián

Present Prelates

Bishop (2016.01.08 – ...):	Bishop Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal (64)

Ordinaries

Special Churches

• Cathedral: Catedral de Santa María Imaculada, Madre de la Iglesia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, País Vasco
• Co-Cathedral, Minor Basilica, World Heritage Site: Catedral vieja Basílica de Santa María, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, País Vasco
• Former Cathedral: Iglesia San Prudencio de Armentia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, País Vasco
• Minor Basilica: Basílica Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu, Oñati, Álava, País Vasco
• Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 3,350 km²

Population: 226,840 Catholics (67.3% of 337,223 total)

Pastoral Centres: 418 parishes, 69 missions

Personnel: 240 priests (185 diocesan, 55 religious), 6 deacons, 575 religious (83 brothers, 492 sisters), 13 seminarians