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Diocese of Jaca

Iacen(sis)

The Diocese of Jaca is a Latin Church diocese in Aragón, Spain, established as a see in 1063. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela and has been led by Bishop Pedro Aguado Cuesta since 2025.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1063
Latin
Iacen(sis)
Patron
santa Orosia
Annuario code
001001703

The see in figures

Catholics
46,400
Population
46,800
Catholic share
99.1%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
44
Catholics per priest
1,055
Extent
5,896 km²
Catholics per km²
7.9

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
Pedro Aguado Cuesta
Born
26 June 1957
Birthplace
Bilbao
Institute
CHIERICI REGOLARI POVERI DELLA MADRE DI DIO DELLE SCUOLE PIE (SCOLOPI, PIARISTI)

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. Peter, Jaca stands in Jaca, 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 Pamplona y Tudela

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The northeastern Spanish province of Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragón, is home to the Diocese of Jaca (Latin: Dioecesis Iacensis), a Latin ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church. It serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela.

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.

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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].