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Suffragan diocese Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain

Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara

Seguntin(us)-Guadalaiaren(sis)

Latin rite diocese in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, with origins in 589 as the Diocese of Siguenza, renamed Siguenza-Guadalajara on 9 March 1959. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toledo. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Santa Maria) in Siguenza, with the Co-Cathedral of St Mary in Guadalajara.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Santa Maria), Siguenza, in Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain.

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Established
1959
Catholics
221,632
Priests
199
Territory
12,190 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Julian Ruiz Martorell
Born
19 January 1957
Birthplace
Cuenca (Spagna)

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The cathedral

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Santa Maria), Siguenza stands in Sigüenza-Guadalajara, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of St Mary, Guadalajara.

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

History

Two cities, Sigüenza and Guadalajara, anchor the Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara (Latin: Dioecesis Seguntinus-Guadalaiarensis), a Latin Church diocese within Spain's ecclesiastical province of Toledo. Civilly it lies in the Spanish province of Guadalajara in Castile, central Spain, with Soria to the north, Zaragoza and Teruel to the east, Cuenca to the south, and Guadalajara and Segovia to the west.