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Metropolitan see Mérida–Badajoz, Spain

Archdiocese of Mérida–Badajoz

Emeriten(sis) Augustan(us)-Pacen(sis)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in Extremadura, Spain. Founded as the Diocese of Badajoz in 1255, it was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1994 with suffragans Coria-Cáceres and Plasencia.

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Badajoz, in Mérida–Badajoz, Spain.

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Established
1255
Catholics
581,414
Priests
215
Territory
17,405 km²

Parishes and churches

209 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
José Rodríguez Carballo
Born
11 August 1953
Birthplace
Lodoselo
Institute
ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Badajoz stands in Mérida–Badajoz, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of Saint Mary Major, Mérida.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Created in 1255, the see now called the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz (Latin: Archidioecesis Emeritensis Augustanus-Pacensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory in Spain. It bore the name Diocese of Badajoz until 1994.

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