El Palmar de Troya

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El Palmar de Troya
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CountryFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Autonomous Community Flag of Andalucia.svg  Andalusia
Province Seville
Comarca Bajo Guadalquivir
Government
  MayorJuan Carlos González García (PSOE)
Area
  Total33.16 km2 (12.80 sq mi)
Population
 () [1]
Website www.elpalmardetroya.es

El Palmar de Troya is a municipality in south-west Spain in the province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. In 2018, it became the province's 106th municipality after it seceded from Utrera. As of 2019 it has a population of 2,340.

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History

Although there are historical data from Roman times and from the 13th century, when it belonged to the Moorish Band, the current settlement is mainly due to the relatives of the Republican prisoners who, after the civil war, built the Torre del Águila reservoir. [2]

It was part of the municipality of Utrera until 2018, from which, after a secession process, it became independent on 3 October 2018. [3]

Palmarian Christian Church

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The cathedral of the Palmarian Christian Church

Nowadays, the municipality is particularly known for the Palmarian Christian Church, a schismatic Catholic sect founded by Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, known as "Pope Gregory XVII" in the Palmarian Christian faith since 6 August 1978 as a result of alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Palmar) and of Jesus Christ on the site from the 1960s. He was later claimed as true Pope of whole Catholic faith, instead of the accepted Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, who took the name of John Paul II. The Church is based at the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, a complex forbidden to those who are not members of the group. [4]

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References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. "History of the municipality". Ayuntamiento de El Palmar de Troya (in Spanish).
  3. Jabois, Manuel (17 November 2018). "La independencia de El Palmar de Troya". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  4. Lundberg, Magnus (2020). A Pope of Their Own El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church (PDF). Uppsala universitet Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet (2nd ed.). Uppsala. ISBN   978-91-985944-1-6. OCLC   1183419262.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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