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Diocese of Cuenca

Conchen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Cuenca, Spain

Latin-rite diocese in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, erected on 5 July 1183 by Pope Lucius III shortly after the city's reconquest from the Moors. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toledo, with its seat at the Gothic cathedral of Cuenca (Cathedral of St Mary and St Julian), begun at the end of the 12th century. Bishop Jose Maria Yanguas Sanz leads the diocese.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
5 July 1183
Latin
Conchen(sis)
Patron
* Nuestra Señora de las Angustias * san Julián
Annuario code
001001247

The see in figures

Catholics
175,887
Population
195,215
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
90.1%
Priests
159
Catholics per priest
1,106
Extent
17,140 km²
Catholics per km²
10

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
Jose Maria Yanguas Sanz
Born
26 October 1947
Birthplace
Alberite de Iregua

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 St Mary and St Julian, Cuenca stands in Cuenca, 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 Toledo

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Toledo.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Cuenca, in the ecclesiastical province of Toledo in Spain, is the seat of a Latin Church diocese: the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuenca (Latin: Dioecesis Conchensis).

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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.