Roman Catholic Diocese of Jerez de la Frontera
The diocese Asidonia - Jerez (Latin: Dioecesis Assidonensis - Ierezensis ), also popularly known simply diocese Jerez, is a tourist destination in Spain Roman Catholic diocese based in Jerez de la Frontera.
History
In Asidonia (now Medina -Sidonia ) is in the 5th century, a bishop seat of the Visigoths detectable, which continued to exist even under the Muslim rule in Al- Andalus, and only in 1146 after the conquest was extinguished by the Almohads.
The diocese Asidonia - Jerez was built on 3 March 1980 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Archiepiscopus Hispalensis of annexations of the Archdiocese of Seville new and this is a suffragan. With the naming of the Vatican ties consciously to the historic diocese Asidonia, whose territory overlapped with the newly erected diocese.
Bishops
Bishops of Asidonia
Bishops of Asidonia - Jerez
- Rafael Bellido Caro, 1980-2000
- Juan Martín del Río, 2000-2008, then Spanish military archbishop
- José Pérez Mazuelos, since 2009