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The Diocese of Ferrol-Mondoñedo (also known as "Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis") Is one of the five districts in which the Roman Catholic church divides Galicia in North-western Spain. The bishop who has two Cathedrals (i.e.: from Latin "cathedra" meaning seat, so two "seats") one in Ferrol and the other in Mondonedo has jurisdiction over the most northern parishes of Galicia; covering the parishes of the northern part of the Province of A Coruña and the Province of Lugo. [3][4] The area had previously been home to Britonia, a settlement founded by expatriate Britons in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. Britonia was represented by the diocese referred to as Britonensis ecclesia (British church) in sources from the 6th and 7th centuries.

Leadership

Bishops of Britonia (Bretoña)

• Mailoc (Second Council of Braga, 572)
• Metopius (Fourth Council of Toledo, 633)
• Sonna (Seventh Council of Toledo, 646)
• Susa (Eighth Council of Toledo, 653)
• Bela (Third Council of Braga, 675)

Bishops of Dumio (Dumium, San Martiño)

• Savaric I (866-877)
• Rudesind I (877-907)
• Savaric II (907-925/6)
• Rudesind II (925/6-942)
• Teodomiro (969?)
• Armentario (983-1011)
• Suario I (1015-1022)
• Nuño I (1025-1027)
• Adulfo (¿?)
• Albito (1040?)
• Suario II (1058-1071)
• Saint Gonzalo (1071-1112)
• Nuño Alfonso (1112-1136)

Bishops of Vilamaior

• Pelayo I (1136-1154)
• Pedro I (1155-1167)
• Joán Pérez (1170-1173)
• Rabinato (1177-1199)

Bishop of Ribadeo

• Pelayo de Cebeyra (Pelayo II) (1199-1218)

Bishops of Mondoedo

• Martiño (1219-1248)
• Joán II de Sebastiáns (1248-1261)
• Nuño II Pérez (1261-1286)
• Álvaro Gómez (1286-1297)
• Rodrigo Vázquez (1298-1318)
• Gonzalo (1319-1326)
• Joán III (1327-1329)
• Álvaro Pérez de Biezma (1326-13431)
• Vasco (1343-1346)
• Alfonso Sánchez (1347-1366)
• Francisco I (1367-1393)
• Lope de Mendoza (1393-1399)
• Álvaro de Isorna (1400-14151)
• Gil Soutelo (1415-1425)
• Gil Rodríguez de Muros (1429-1432)
• Pedro Henríquez (1426-1445)
• Pedro Arias Vaamonde (1446-1448)
• Alfonso de Segura (1449-1455)
• Alfonso Vázquez de Acuña (1455-1457, appointed Bishop of Jaén)
• Fadrique de Guzmán (1452-1492?)
• Alonso Suárez de la Fuente del Sauce (1493-1495, appointed Bishop of Lugo)
• Pedro de Munébrega (1498-1504)
• Diego de Muros † (4 Apr 1505 Appointed - 1 Oct 1512 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
• Diego Pérez Villamuriel † (1 Oct 1512 Appointed - 1520 Died)
• Jerónimo Suárez Maldonado † (10 Jul 1525 Appointed - 20 Mar 1532 Appointed, Bishop of Badajoz)
• Pedro Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara † (6 Sep 1532 Appointed - 11 Apr 1537 Appointed, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo)
• Antonio Guevara Noroña, O.F.M. † (11 Apr 1537 Appointed - 3 Apr 1545 Died)
• Diego Soto Valera † (27 Nov 1545 Appointed - 21 Aug 1549 Died)
• Francisco de Santa María Benavides Velasco, O.S.H. † (17 Jul 1550 Appointed - 21 Oct 1558 Appointed, Bishop of Segovia)
• Pedro Maldonado, O.F.M. † (23 Jan 1559 Appointed - 2 Jul 1566 Died)
• Gonzalo de Solórzano † (13 Jan 1567 Appointed - 18 Feb 1570 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
• Antonio Luján Luján, O.F.M. † (20 Feb 1570 Appointed - 7 Oct 1570 Died)
• Juan de Liermo Hermosa † (4 Jun 1574 Appointed - 26 Jul 1582 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela)
• Isidoro Caja de la Jara † (20 Dec 1582 Appointed - 26 May 1593 Died)
• Gonzalo Gutiérrez Montilla † (16 Nov 1593 Appointed - 18 Sep 1598 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
• Diego González Samaniego † (1 Feb 1599 Appointed - 22 Oct 1611 Died)
• Alfonso Mesía de Tovar † (18 Jun 1612 Appointed - 27 Jan 1616 Appointed, Bishop of Astorga)
• Pedro Fernández Zorrilla † (23 Mar 1616 Appointed - 23 Jul 1618 Appointed, Bishop of Badajoz)
• Rafael Díaz de Cabrera, O.SS.T. † (6 Aug 1618 Appointed - 30 Sep 1630 Died)
• Francisco Villafañe † (12 May 1631 Appointed - 5 Sep 1633 Appointed, Bishop of Osma)
• Antonio Valdés Herrera † (19 Dec 1633 Appointed - 23 Jun 1636 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
• Gonzalo Sánchez de Somoza Quiroga † (21 Jun 1638 Appointed - 14 Aug 1644 Died)
• Juan Juániz de Echalar † (31 Jul 1645 Appointed - 16 Dec 1647 Appointed, Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada)
• Francisco Torres Grijalba, O.S.A. † (13 Jan 1648 Appointed - 4 Sep 1672 Died)
• Juan Antonio Muñoz Salcedo, O.S.H. † ( 1705 Ordained Bishop - 5 May 1728 Died)
• Antonio Alejandro Sarmiento Sotomayor, O.S.B. † (21 Sep 1728 Appointed - 18 Oct 1751 Died)
• Juan Manuel Escobar Carrera † (24 Apr 1752 Appointed - 27 Jul 1752 Died)
• Carlos Antonio Riomol Quiroga † (17 Nov 1752 Appointed - 1 Mar 1761 Died)
• José Francisco Losada Quiroga † (23 Nov 1761 Appointed - 30 Jun 1779 Died)
• Francisco Cuadrillero Mota † (11 Dec 1780 Appointed - 23 Mar 1797 Died)
• Andrés Aguiar Caamaño † (18 Dec 1797 Appointed - 12 Nov 1815 Died)
• Bartolomé Cienfuegos † (22 Jul 1816 Appointed - 22 Jan 1827 Died)
• Franciso López Borricón † (25 Jun 1827 Appointed - 10 Dec 1839 Died)
• Tomás Iglesias Bárcones † (20 May 1850 Appointed - 28 Nov 1851 Appointed, Patriarch of West Indies)
• Telmo Maceira † (27 Sep 1852 Appointed - 28 Sep 1855 Appointed, Bishop of Tui)
• Ponciano Arciniega † (25 Sep 1857 Appointed - 3 Sep 1868 Died)
• Francisco de Sales Crespo y Bautista † (5 Jul 1875 Appointed - 18 Feb 1877 Died)
• José Manuel Palacios y López † (25 Jun 1877 Appointed - 2 Dec 1885 Died)
• José María Cos y Macho † (10 Jun 1886 Appointed - 14 Feb 1889 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba)
• Manuel Fernández de Castro y Menéndez † (30 Dec 1889 Appointed - 27 Jun 1905 Died)
• Juan José Solís y Fernández † (14 Dec 1905 Appointed - 24 Feb 1931 Died)
• Benjamín de Arriba y Castro † (1 May 1935 Appointed - 8 Aug 1944 Appointed, Bishop of Oviedo)
• Fernando Quiroga y Palacios † (25 Nov 1945 Appointed - 4 Jun 1949 Appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela)
• Mariano Vega Mestre † (5 Oct 1950 Appointed - 25 Apr 1957 Died)

Bishops of Mondoñedo-Ferrol

• Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea † (12 Sep 1957 Appointed - 18 Nov 1968 Appointed, Bishop of San Sebastián)
• Miguel Angel Araújo Iglesias † (2 Jul 1970 Appointed - 20 May 1985 Resigned)
• José Gea Escolano (15 May 1987 Appointed - 6 Jun 2005 Retired)
• Manuel Sánchez Monge (6 Jun 2005 Appointed - )

Coordinates for both cathedrals:

• St. Julian's Cathedral in Ferrol (Province of A Coruña) 43°28′N 8°15′W / 43.467°N 8.25°W / 43.467; -8.25
• Mondonedo's Cathedral in Mondonedo (Province of Lugo) 43°26′00.36″N 7°21′23.48″W / 43.4334333°N 7.3565222°W / 43.4334333; -7.3565222

List of Parishes by District

External links

• (Spanish) Official web site of the Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
• (English) Catholic Hierachy - Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
• (Spanish) List of Spanish Dioceses
• (Spanish) Official web-site of the Diocese of Orense
• (Spanish) Official web-site of the Diocese of Lugo
• (English)  "Diocese of Mondoñedo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Diocese_of_Mondo%C3%B1edo.  
• (English) The Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis Province in the 21st Century (Alternatives: The Britonia Province)

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