Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix

Diocese of Guadix Dioecesis Guadicensis
Cathedral
Location
Country	Spain
Metropolitan	Granada
Statistics
Area	5,577 km2 (2,153 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 109,254 107,000 (97.9%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación, Guadix (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation)
Co-cathedral	Concatedral de Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Encarnación, Baza (Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Incarnation)
Current leadership
Bishop	Ginés Ramón García Beltrán

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix (Latin: Guadicen(sis)) is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the city of Guadix, part of the Ecclesiastical province of Granada in Spain.

Bishops

• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz (1992-2009)

History

The diocese of Guadix comprises the greater part of the Province of Granada and a portion of the Province of Almería.

The legend of the Seven Apostolic Men preserved in the Mozarabic Missal places the episcopal see of St. Torquatus in Guadix, and names him as one of the seven. The matron Luparia built a baptistery and primitive church. From then until 303, when Felix presided at the Council of Elvira, there is no record preserved of the Accitanian bishops.

Liliolus attended the Third Council of Toledo in 589, and the names of the Accitanian bishops are to be found among those who attended the other Toletan councils; Clarencius at the fourth and fifth; Justus at the sixth; Julian at the eighth; Magnarius at the ninth and tenth; and Ricila, the last bishop whose name has come down to us before the Muslim invasion, at subsequent ones.

In the Mozarabic period the diocese of Guadix continued to exist. Isidorus Pacensis mentions Frodoarius, who presided seven years over the See of Guadix. Quiricus assisted at the Council of Córdoba before 839.

The Almohades, in the twelfth century, destroyed this together with the other Andalusian sees; it was not restored until the time of the Catholic sovereigns. Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza, Archbishop of Toledo, erected the new see on 21 May, 1492, in virtue of the Apostolic commission of Innocent VIII granted on 4 August, 1486, restoring, by right of postliminium, the Apostolic rank possessed by the see previous to the Islamic invasion. The diocese of Baza, founded in 1306, was united to the See of Guadix in 1493.

The modern cathedral, on the site occupied by the principal mosque, was commenced in 1710 and completed in 1796. The Seminary of St. Torquatus was founded by Bishop Juan José Fonseca in 1595; Charles IV of Spain founded an hospice in 1803, and the present hospital occupies the ancient Jesuit college.

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Spain

Source

• Official website
• Catholic Hierarchy