ORENSE - Detail of the south door of the Cathedral (12th-13th centuries).
OURENSE, Diocese of. - City and diocese, capital of the province of the same name in northwestern Spain.
It has an area of 6,250 sq km, almost identical to that of the civil province, with a population of 578,420 inhabitants, of whom 578,377 are Catholics distributed in 602 parishes, served by 516 diocesan priests and 36 regulars; it has two seminaries, 9 male religious communities and 24 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 302).
It was first a suffragan of Braga and then of Santiago de Compostela. The first known bishop of O. is Witimiro, present at the Synod of Braga in 561. Occupied by the Arabs (732) and reconquered by Alfonso III (ca. 877), the diocese rose again only to be suppressed ca. 977 and incorporated into Lugo, because of the Norman invasions. It was reestablished on 13 Jan. 1071. Among the illustrious bishops of O. mention should be made of St. Ansurius in the 10th century and Giovanni di Torquemada in the 15th century. The patron of the diocese is St. Martin. The Cathedral, begun in the 12th century and finished in modern times, is a heterogeneous construction in which every century has left its mark.
Bibliography3 worksJ. Muñoz de la Cueva, Noticias históricas de la S. Iglesia catedral de O., Madrid 1727; Eubel, I, 119; II, 111; III, 128; IV, 103; Enc. Eur.
BIBL.: J. Muñoz de la Cueva, Noticias históricas de la S. Iglesia catedral de O., Madrid 1727; Eubel, I, 119; II, 111; III, 128; IV, 103; Enc. Eur. Am., XL, pp. 262-69.
Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “Orense, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 272. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/orense-diocesi-di.
MLA
Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “Orense, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 272. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/orense-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
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author = {Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio},
title = {Orense, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {272},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/orense-diocesi-di}
}
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