Roman Catholic Diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño

The diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada - Logroño (Latin: Dioecesis Calaguritanus et Calceatensis - Lucroniensis ) is a location in Spain Roman Catholic diocese based in Calahorra.

History

The diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada - Logroño was built as a diocese of Calahorra in the 5th century and the Archdiocese of Tarragona is a suffragan. For the first time, it is almost certainly attested after 450, when Bishop Silvanus had an argument with the Metropolitan of Tarragona. In the Visigothic era, bishops of Calahorra involved in various synods Empire. To 714 then occupied the Moors Calahorra, for whose diocese no names of bishops have been handed down for the 8th century. Shortly after 800 then reappear signs of bishops of Calahorra, which had then taken refuge in Oviedo. After the Christian reconquest of the northern Spanish city of Nájera by King Ordoño II ( 923 ) collected some of the newly established bishops there it claims to be the successor in the ecclesiastical province of Calahorra. They officiated even then in Nájera, when King García III. of Navarre had Calahorra in 1045 brought back under Christian sovereignty.

When King Alfonso VI. was of Castile and Leon in the second half of the 11th and beginning of the 12th century in the government, the bishopric of Calahorra rose to become one of the territorially largest and financially most prosperous ecclesiastical provinces of Spain; it was about 1093 slammed the former territory of Armentia. Because Nájera as Calahorra was more centrally located, the bishops took there until the end of the 12th century, their seat that they moved then to Santo Domingo de la Calzada. In the result, there were disputes between the canons of Calahorra and La Calzada of those. A resultant schism within the diocese could be finished in 1221. Since 1235 was the diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada, in 1318 it was used by Pope John XXII. the new Archdiocese of Zaragoza is a suffragan.

1574 came the diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada to the Archbishopric of Burgos. On September 8, 1861 were from parts of its territory to the founding of the diocese of Vitoria. A further transfer of territory took place on November 2, 1949 to the founding of the diocese of Bilbao. The diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada was placed under the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela suffragan on 11 August 1956. On March 9, 1959, was renamed the diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada - Logroño.

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