Diocese of Cuenca
Conchen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Cuenca, Spain
Latin-rite diocese in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, erected on 5 July 1183 by Pope Lucius III shortly after the city's reconquest from the Moors. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toledo, with its seat at the Gothic cathedral of Cuenca (Cathedral of St Mary and St Julian), begun at the end of the 12th century. Bishop Jose Maria Yanguas Sanz leads the diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 July 1183
- Latin
- Conchen(sis)
- Patron
- * Nuestra Señora de las Angustias * san Julián
- Annuario code
- 001001247
The see in figures
- Population
- 2,006
- Priests
- 159
- Extent
- 17,140 km²
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jose Maria Yanguas Sanz
- Born
- 26 October 1947
- Birthplace
- Alberite de Iregua
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of St Mary and St Julian, Cuenca stands in Cuenca, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Toledo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Toledo.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AlbaceteAlbacete
- Diocese of Ciudad RealCiudad Real
- Diocese of Sigüenza-GuadalajaraSigüenza-Guadalajara
- Archdiocese of ToledoToledo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Cuenca, in the ecclesiastical province of Toledo in Spain, is the seat of a Latin Church diocese: the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuenca (Latin: Dioecesis Conchensis).
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].