Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal

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Diocese of Guarda

Dioecesis Aegitaniensis

Diocese da Guarda
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Guarda Cathedral
Location
Country Portugal
Ecclesiastical provinceLisbon
MetropolitanPatriarchate of Lisbon
Statistics
Area6,758 km2 (2,609 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)		(as of 2006)
260,700
250,700 (96.2%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralGuarda Cathedral
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Bishop
Metropolitan ArchbishopManuel III
Map
Dioceses de Portugal.PNG
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda (Latin: Dioecesis Aegitaniensis) is a diocese located in central eastern Portugal, a suffragan in the Ecclesiastical province of the Latin Patriarchate of Lisbon in southern Portugal.

The present episcopal seat is in Guarda Cathedral (Portuguese: Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Consolação) in the city of Guarda. The diocese also contains the Church of São Luís in Pinhel, once the cathedral of the former diocese of Pinhel, absorbed into the diocese of Guarda in 1881.[1]

Statistics[]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 253,300 Catholics (96.0% of 263,900 total) on 6,759 km² in 361 parishes and 3 missions with 140 priests (126 diocesan, 14 religious), 17 deacons, 133 lay religious (26 brothers, 107 sisters) and 5 seminarians.

History[]

  • Possibly in 550, no later than 569, a Diocese of Egitânia (viz.), with see in present Idanha-a-Velha, was established under the Kingdom of the Suebi and maintained by the Visigothic Kingdom which absorbed it by 585. However, due to the Moorish conquest, in 715 it was suppressed, its Cathedral of Idanha-a-Velha later converted into a mosque.
  • In 1199 that was nominally restored as Diocese of Guarda, which claimed the apostolic succession but switched the see to Guarda where it built a new cathedral, without awarding even co-cathedral status to the old see.
  • On 1549.08.21 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Portalegre
  • On 1881.09.30 it gained territory from the Diocese of Coimbra and gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Pinhel.[1]

Episcopal ordinaries[]

(all Roman rite) [2]

Suffragan Bishops of Guarda
  • (1200 – 1225)
  • (1226 – 1248)
  • Rodrigo Fernandes (1248 – 1267)
  • (1267 – 1278)
  • (Juan Martínez), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1278 – 1301), previously Bishop of Cádiz (Spain) (1266 – 1278.12.24)
  • Vasco Martins de Alvelos (1302 – death October 23, 1313), previously Bishop of Lamego (Portugal) (1297 – 1302)
  • (1313 – 1313)
  • (1314 – 1316)
  • (1319 – 1322)
  • (1322 – 1326)
  • (1326 – 1345)
  • (1346 – 1347), later Bishop of Évora (Portugal) (1347.10.15 – death 1352)
  • (1349 – 1356)
  • (? – 1357)
  • (? – 1360)
  • (1362 – 1367)
  • (1367)
  • (1367 – 1384)
  • (? – 1384)
  • Afonso Ferraz (? – 1396)
  • Gil (1397 – 1397)
  • (1397–1426)
  • (1427 – 1458)
  • João Manuel, Carmelite Order (O. Carm.) (July 9, 1459 – death 1476), previously Titular Bishop of Tiberias (1442.04.18 – 1444.07.20), Bishop of Ceuta (Spain) (1444.07.20 – 1459.07.09)
  • (March 17, 1477 – death 1478), previously Bishop of Viseu (Portugal) (1526.11.21 – 1547.04.22)
  • (1479 – 1481 see below)
  • Apostolic Administrator (1481 – death 1484), while Bishop of Évora (Portugal) (1471 – 1484)
  • (see above 1484 – 1496)
  • (1496 – 1516)
  • Apostolic Administrator sede plena Miguel da Silva (1516–1519), later Bishop of Viseu (Portugal) (1526.11.21 – 1547.04.22), created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XII Apostoli (1542.02.06 – 1543.10.05), transferred Cardinal-Priest of S. Prassede (1543.10.05 – 1552.06.27), also Apostolic Administrator of (Italy) (1549.05.20 – 1555), repeatedly transferred Cardinal-Priest of S. Marcello (1552.06.27 – 1553.11.29), Cardinal-Priest of S. Pancrazio (1553.11.29 – 1553.12.11), Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere (1553.12.11 – death 1556.06.05)
BIOs TO ELABORATE
  • Cardinal (September 9, 1516 – February 23, 1519)
  • Jorge de Melo (1519–1548)
  • (1550–1552)
  • (1556–1585)
  • (1594–1608)
  • Archbishop Afonso Furtado de Mendonça (February 13, 1610 – 1616)
  • (1617–1630)
  • (1632 – August 4, 1636)
  • (1639–1639)
  • Father (1640–1640)
  • Archbishop (1643–1648)
  • (1669–1672)
  • Archbishop (1685–1691)
  • (1691 – January 24, 1692)
  • Archbishop (1694–1704)
  • António de Saldanha (1705 – June 28, 1711)
  • (1713 – August 2, 1736)
  • Archbishop , O. Cist. (January 2, 1741 – March 18, 1741)
  • (1742–1774)
  • (1773 – February 19, 1797)
  • (1797–1822)
  • (1824–1828)
  • (1832–1857)
  • Manuel Martins Manso (March 18, 1858 – December 1, 1878)
  • (August 9, 1883 – January 3, 1903)
  • Archbishop Manuel Vieira de Matos (April 1, 1903 – October 1, 1914)
  • (October 3, 1914 – February 1, 1952)
  • (February 1, 1952 – June 4, 1960)
  • (高德華) (July 9, 1960 – November 17, 1979)
  • António dos Santos (November 17, 1979 – December 1, 2005)
  • Manuel da Rocha Felício (December 1, 2005 - ... )

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Pinhel
  2. ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/guar3.htm GCatholic.org[self-published]

Sources and external links[]

Coordinates: 40°32′18″N 7°16′10″W / 40.5384°N 7.2694°W / 40.5384; -7.2694

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