Roman Catholic Diocese of Huelva

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Diocese of Huelva

Dioecesis Onubensis

Diócesis de Huelva
Catedral de Huelva 2005-Julio 033.jpg
Huelva Cathedral
Location
CountryFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Ecclesiastical province Seville
Metropolitan Seville
Statistics
Area10,085 km2 (3,894 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
483,792
464,440 (96%)
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established22 October 1953
CathedralCathedral of Our Lady of Mercy in Huelva
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Santiago Gómez Sierra
Metropolitan Archbishop José Ángel Saiz Meneses
Bishops emeritus José Vilaplana Blasco
Website
diocesisdehuelva.es

The Diocese of Huelva (Latin : Dioecesis Onubensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in south-western Spain, and its borders coincide with those of the civil province of Huelva, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. The diocese forms part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Seville, and is thus suffragan to the Archdiocese of Seville.

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Territory

The diocese is bounded on the north by the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz, on the east by the Archdiocese of Seville and Diocese of Cádiz, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by the Diocese of Faro, in the Portuguese Algarve, of which it is separated by the Guadiana river. The surface of the diocese is 10,085 km² and its population is 472,000 in 79 municipalities (2005). The estimated catholic population is 446,000. There are 172 parishes in the diocese.

The territory includes four different zones:

The economy is based on agriculture, fishing and mining. In the Diocese are located several historic places where Christopher Columbus sailed out of on his first voyage in 1492.

Diocesan see

The see of the diocese, and provincial capital is the city of Huelva (pop 150,000), located next to the estuary that is created by the confluence of the rivers Tinto and Odiel, opening itself to the Atlantic near the city.

History

The Diocese was erected 22 October 1953, dismembered from the Archdiocese of Seville.

Huelva Cathedral, Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, has been restored several times. The first church, the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Merced was built in 1614 and was destroyed almost completely by an earthquake, in 1755. Restoration of the building was started in 1767, continued in 1775 and finished in 1877. The church was selected as the cathedral of the new Diocese, in 1954. In 1970 the Cathedral was declared a Historic and Artistic Monument.

Bishops of Huelva

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