Suffragan diocese Lugo, Spain
Diocese of Lugo
Lucen(sis) in Hispania
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese in Galicia, Spain, one of the most ancient sees of the peninsula, with origins around the 1st-2nd century. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of St Mary (Catedral de Santa Maria) in Lugo.
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- Catholics
- 288,000
- Priests
- 218
- Territory
- 7,780 km²
Parishes and churches
1,122 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- O Salvador de FrancosFrancosView parish
- O Salvador de GuntínGuntínView parish
- O Salvador de LaroLaroView parish
- O Salvador de LarínLarínView parish
- O Salvador de MatoMatoView parish
- O Salvador de MerlánMerlánView parish
- O Salvador de MoredaMoredaView parish
- O Salvador de MosteiroMosteiroView parish
- O Salvador de NeirasNeirasView parish
- O Salvador de PenaPenaView parish
- O Salvador de PinzaPinzaView parish
- O Salvador de PiñeiroPiñeiroView parish
- O Salvador de ReigadaReigadaView parish
- O Salvador de RibeiraRibeiraView parish
- O Salvador de SambreixoSambreixoView parish
- O Salvador de SarriaSarriaView parish
- O Salvador de SeoaneSeoaneView parish
- O Salvador de ToiránToiránView parish
- O Salvador de ValboaValboaView parish
- O Salvador de VilaestebaVilaestebaView parish
- O Salvador de Vilar de DonasVilar de DonasView parish
- O Salvador de Vilar de SarriaVilar de SarriaView parish
- O Salvador de VilasanteVilasanteView parish
- O Salvador de VilaúxeVilaúxeView parish
- O Salvador de VileirizVileirizView parish
- Saamasas SantiagoLugoView parish
- Sagrado CorazónLugoView parish
- Sagrado CorazónMonforte Estacion. Sgdo CorazónView parish
- SalvadorPacios da SerraView parish
- SampaioSenraView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Alfonso Carrasco Rouco
- Born
- 12 October 1956
- Birthplace
- Vilalba
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The cathedral
Cathedral Basilica of St Mary (Santa Maria), Lugo stands in Lugo, 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.
History
One of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo (Latin: Dioecesis Lucensis in Hispania) is a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church in Galicia, north-western Spain. Its episcopal seat is the Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel) in Lugo city, dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel. The diocese also contains a World Heritage Site, the Cistercian Monastery of Santa María at Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coruña, Galicia.
This see in the wire
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- Diocese of Lugo publishes profile of José Luis Vázquez Coego
- Diocese of Lugo publishes profile of Jesús Río Ramilo
- Diocese of Lugo publishes profile of Jesús López Pérez
- Diocese of Lugo publishes profile of José García Pájaro
- Diocese of Lugo publishes profile of priest Jorge Vázquez Freire
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