Diocese of Salamanca
Salmantin(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Salamanca, Spain
The Diocese of Salamanca is a Latin Church diocese in Castile and León, Spain, with origins traced to Roman times. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Valladolid.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Latin
- Salmantin(us)
- Patron
- saint Jean de Saint-Facond
- Annuario code
- 001002844
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 296,000
- Population
- 302,200
- Catholic share
- 97.9%
- Priests
- 335
- Catholics per priest
- 884
- Extent
- 7,876 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 38
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
- José Luis Retana Gozalo
- Born
- 12 March 1953
- Birthplace
- Pedro Bernardo
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
New Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption, Salamanca stands in Salamanca, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Old Cathedral of Our Lady, Salamanca.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Valladolid
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Valladolid.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ValladolidValladolid
- Diocese of Ciudad RodrigoCiudad Rodrigo
- Diocese of SegoviaSegovia
- Diocese of ZamoraZamora
- Diocese of ÁvilaÁvila
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Salamanca, within the ecclesiastical province of Valladolid in Spain, is the seat of a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, the Diocese of Salamanca (Latin: Dioecesis Salmantina).
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].