Valliposita

Valpuesta

Valpuesta

Roman Catholic titular see in Spain

Valpuesta (Latin Valliposita or Valle Conposita) was a Catholic diocese in Castile in northern Spain. Today it is a titular see.

Collegiate church of Santa María
For other uses, see Valpuesta (disambiguation).

History

According to unreliable documents in the cartularies of Valpuesta, the diocese was established in 804 as a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tarragona.[1] It was suppressed in 1087 and its territory merged into the then bishopric of Burgos (now a metropolitan Archdiocese).

List of bishops

  • Juan (804)
  • Felimir (876–881)
  • Fredulf (884–890)
  • Diego I (900)
  • Diego II (929–957)
  • Martin (963–992)
  • Velasco (1008–1011)
  • Sancho (1011–1022)
  • Munio I (1024–1037)
  • Ato (1037–1049)
  • García (1049–1052)
  • Gómez (1052–1065)
  • Munio II (1065–1087)

Titular see of Valliposita

The diocese was nominally revived in 1969 as a titular bishopric of the lowest (episcopal) rank.

It since has the following (near-)consecutive, so-far regular (not secular) incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Titular See of Valliposita, Spain".
  2. [2]
    "Titular See of Valliposita, Spain".

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