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
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