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Suffragan diocese Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana, Spain

Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana

Segobricen(sis)-Castellionen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin rite diocese in the province of Castellon, Valencian Community, Spain. The see of Segorbe traces to 1173 and took its present form as Segorbe-Castellon in 1960. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Valencia; its seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption in Segorbe, with a co-cathedral in Castellon de la Plana.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Segorbe Cathedral, in Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

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Established
1961
Catholics
420,301
Priests
199
Territory
4,356 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Casimiro Lopez Llorente
Born
10 November 1950
Birthplace
Burgo de Osma

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The cathedral

Segorbe Cathedral stands in Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of St Mary, Castellon de la Plana.

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History

In the province of Castellón, part of the autonomous community of Valencia in north-eastern Spain, lies the Diocese of Segorbe-Castellón (Latin: Dioecesis Segobricensis-Castillionensis; Valencian: Diòcesi de Sogorb-Castelló), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Valencia and is therefore suffragan to the Archdiocese of Valencia.

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