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Diocese of Alcalá de Henares

Compluten(sis)

The Diocese of Alcalá de Henares is a Latin Church diocese in the Community of Madrid, Spain, erected on 23 July 1991. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Madrid.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1991
Latin
Compluten(sis)
Patron
Saints Justus and Pastor
Annuario code
001000634

The see in figures

Catholics
686,161
Population
807,248
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
85.0%
Priests
208
Catholics per priest
3,299
Extent
2,586 km²
Catholics per km²
265

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Antonio Prieto Lucena
Born
7 July 1947
Birthplace
Cocentaina

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of Saints Justus and Pastor stands in Alcalá de Henares, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Madrid

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Madrid.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

With its episcopal see at Alcalá de Henares, this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain (Latin: Compluten(sis)) serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Madrid.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.