Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo

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Diocese of Lugo

Dioecesis Lucensis in Hispania

Diócesis de Lugo (es)
Diocese de Lugo (gl)
Fachada da Catedral de Lugo.jpg
Location
CountryFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Ecclesiastical province Santiago de Compostela
Metropolitan Santiago de Compostela
Statistics
Area7,780 km2 (3,000 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
296,961
296,389 (99.8%)
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established2nd Century
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel in Lugo
Current leadership
Pope Francis
BishopAlfonso Carrasco Rouco
Metropolitan ArchbishopJulián Barrio Barrio
Website
diocesisdelugo.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo (Latin : Dioecesis Lucensis in Hispania) is a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. [1] [2]

Contents

The cathedral episcopal see is in the Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel), dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel, in Lugo city.

It also has a World Heritage Site : the Cistercian Monastery of Santa María, in Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coruña, Galicia.

Extent and statistics

As per 2012, it pastorally served 288,000 Catholics (99.2% of 290,200 total) on 7,703 km2 in 1,139 parishes with 376 priests (315 diocesan, 61 religious), 318 lay religious (83 brothers, 235 sisters) and 7 seminarians. [2]

Its jurisdiction covers 1,138 parishes in three administrative Spanish provinces :

History

[2]

Episcopal Ordinaries of Lugo

Suffragan Bishops of Lugo (initial period)
First period unavailable
Metropolitan Archbishops of Lugo
always the Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga (Portugal) (745–1063)
Suffragan Bishops of Lugo (again) [2]

See also

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