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Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela

Pampilonen(sis) et Tudelen(sis)

The Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in Navarre, Spain. The Diocese of Pamplona dates to the 5th century and was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1956, with suffragans including Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño, Jaca, and San Sebastián.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1851
Latin
Pampilonen(sis) et Tudelen(sis)
Annuario code
001002530

The see in figures

Catholics
573,386
Population
578,210
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
99.2%
Priests
535
Catholics per priest
1,072
Extent
10,421 km²
Catholics per km²
55

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

Archbishop
Florencio Roselló Avellanas
Born
10 January 1962
Birthplace
Alcorisa
Institute
MERCEDARI (O. de M.)

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 the Assumption of Our Lady, Pamplona stands in Pamplona y Tudela, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Solitude, Tudela.

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

The province of Pamplona

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Two Spanish cities, Pamplona and Tudela, together anchor the Archdiocese of Pamplona and Tudela (Latin: Archidioecesis Pampilonensis et Tudelensis), a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church.

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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.