Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
Mindonien(sis)-Ferrolen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
Latin rite diocese in Galicia, Spain, tracing its origins to the 6th-century see of Bretona and bearing its current name since 1959. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Mondonedo, with the Co-Cathedral of St Julian in Ferrol.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1136
- Latin
- Mindonien(sis)-Ferrolen(sis)
- Patron
- * san Rosendo * san Julián * Nuestra Señora de los Remedios
- Annuario code
- 001002269
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 291,100
- Population
- 292,200
- Catholic share
- 99.6%
- Priests
- 104
- Catholics per priest
- 2,799
- Extent
- 4,425 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 66
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Fernando Garcia Cadinanos
- Born
- 7 May 1968
- Birthplace
- Burgos
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 Basilica of the Assumption, Mondonedo stands in Mondoñedo-Ferrol, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of St Julian (San Xiao), Ferrol.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Santiago de Compostela
A suffragan of Santiago de Compostela.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de CompostelaSantiago de Compostela
- Diocese of LugoLugo
- Diocese of OrenseOrense
- Diocese of Tui-VigoTui-Vigo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Four suffragan dioceses make up the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, which covers Galicia in the northwest of Spain, and Mondoñedo-Ferrol (Latin: Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis), a Latin diocese, is the northernmost of them. Long before, this area held Britonia, a settlement established by expatriate Britons in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.
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].