Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Granada

The Archdiocese of Granada (Latin: "Archidioecesis Granatensis") is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. It was erected as the Diocese of Granada in the 3rd century, and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Alexander VI on December 10, 1492, with the suffragan sees of Almería, Cartagena, Guadix, Jaén, and Málaga.

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Annunciation; Granada also houses the Basilicas of San Juan de Dios and Nuestra Señora de las Angustias. The current Archbishop of Granada is "His Excellency" Francisco Martínez Fernández, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II on March 15, 2003.

List of archbishops of Granada

*Francisco Herrera Ruesta (8 Jun 1524 - Dec 1524)
*Pedro Portocarrero (26 Jun 1525 - 5 Jun 1526)
*Pedro Ramírez de Alba, O.S.H. (19 Dec 1526 - 21 Jul 1528)
*Gaspar Avalos de la Cueva (22 Jan 1529 - 29 Mar 1542)
*Fernando Niño de Guevara (22 Mar 1542 - 16 Sep 1552 Died)
*Pedro Guerrero Logroño (28 Oct 1546 - 2 Apr 1576 Died)
*Juan Méndez de Salvatierra (11 Sep 1577 - 24 May 1588 Died)
*Pedro Castro Quiñones (6 Dec 1589 - 5 Jul 1610)
*Pedro González de Mendoza, OFM (19 Jul 1610 - 8 Feb 1616)
*Felipe Tarsis de Acuña (24 Feb 1616 - ?)
*Garcerán Albañell (16 Nov 1620 - 1625)
*Agustín Spínola Basadone (7 Sep 1626 - 23 Oct 1630)
*Miguel Santos de Sampedro (13 Nov 1630 - 1633)
*Fernando Valdés Llano (18 Jul 1633 - 1639)
*Martín Carrillo Alderete (1 Jul 1641 - 29 Jun 1653)
*José Argáiz Pérez (27 Jul 1654 - 28 May 1667)
*Alonso Bernardo de Ríos y Guzmán, O.SS.T. † (13 Sep 1677 - 5 Oct 1692)
*Francisco Eustaquio Perea Porras (3 Jul 1720 - Sep 1723)
*Felipe de los Tueros Huerta (20 Jan 1734 - 12 Sep 1751 Died)
*Onésimo Salamanca Zaldívar (20 Mar 1752 - 19 Dec 1757)
*Pedro Antonio de Barroeta Angel (19 Dec 1757 - 20 Mar 1775)
*Antonio Jorge y Galván (29 Jan 1776 - 2 Sep 1787)
*Basilio Tomás Sancho Hernando, Sch. P. (17 Dec 1787 - ?)
*Juan Manuel Moscoso y Peralta (3 Aug 1789 - 24 Jul 1811)
*Blas Joaquín Alvarez Palma (13 Dec 1814 - 29 Nov 1837)
*Luis Antonio Folgueras Sión (17 Jan 1848 - 28 Oct 1850)
*Salvador José Reyes García de Lara (5 Sep 1851 - 31 Mar 1865)
*Bienvenudo Monzon y Martin (8 Jun 1866 - 27 Mar 1885)
*José Moreno y Mazón (27 Mar 1885 - 17 Jan 1905)
*José Meseguer y Costa (27 Mar 1905 - 9 Dec 1920)
*Vicente Casanova y Marzol (7 Mar 1921 - 23 Oct 1930)
*Agustín Parrado y García (4 Apr 1934 - 8 Oct 1946)
*Balbino Santos y Olivera (24 Nov 1946 - 14 Feb 1953)
*Rafael García y García de Castro (9 May 1953 - 3 Feb 1974)
*Emilio Benavent Escuín (3 Feb 1974 - 25 May 1977)
*José Méndez Asensio (31 Jan 1978 - 10 Dec 1996)
*Antonio Cañizares Llovera (10 Dec 1996 - 24 Oct 2002)
*Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (15 Mar 2003 - present)

ee also

*Roman Catholicism in Spain

External links

* [http://www.diocesisgranada.org Official site]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dgrns.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/diocese/gran0.htm Giga-Catholic Information]