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Suffragan diocese Salamanca, Spain

Diocese of Salamanca

Salmantin(us)

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for New Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption, Salamanca, in Salamanca, Spain.

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Catholics
296,000
Priests
335
Territory
7,876 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
José Luis Retana Gozalo
Born
12 March 1953
Birthplace
Pedro Bernardo

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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.

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).

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