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The Bihops of Spain Project is a personal effort to translate and bring most of the current (27 August 2023) Roman Catholics bishops of Spain to B-class. The diocesan system in Spain consists of 69 dioceses and 14 ecclesiastical provinces, plus the Military Archbishopric of Spain.[i] Each ecclesiastical province is headed by an archbishop and each diocese by a bishop. There are 16 titular archbishops,[ii] 14 emeritus archbishops, 51 titular bishops, 10 auxiliary bishops, 24 emeritus bishops and 3 emeritus auxiliary bishops, this equals to a gran total of 118 bishops. Of the 118, only 36 had an article (30,5%) at the start of the project, either stubs or of start class, though all the remaining bishops have a corresponding article on the Spanish Wikipedia.
Mission: His Highness Pope Francis is well-known for its progressive views and as so, he as been electing like-minded churchman to high-rank positions. In 2019, he made structural changes to allow greater transparency regarding sexual abuse cases within the Church, and since then he has ordered studies from independent institutes to investigate and report such cases to the world. By translating and improving these articles we are helping in the reimage of the Roman Catholic Church by providing new, complete, accurate and neutral information. Furthermore, non-anglophone topics are often neglected on the English Wikipedia, and foreign clergy are are not an exemption, so the project is also an attempt to close this discrepancy. Besides helping the free encyclopedia, I chose this topic because I wanted to educate myself more about Catholicism, and Spanish bishops specifically so I could practice my Spanish since practically all sources are in this language.
Titular archbishops
Juan José Omella, cardinal archbishop of Barcelona[iii]
José Cobo Cano, neocardinal archbishop of Madrid
Carlos Escribano , archbishop of Zaragoza
Celso Morga Iruzubieta, archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz[iii]
Enrique Benavent Vidal, archbishop of Valencia[iii]
Francisco Cerro Chaves, archbishop of Toledo[iii]
Francisco José Prieto , archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Francisco Pérez González , archbishop of Pamplona and Tudela
Jesús Sanz Montes, archbishop of Oviedo[iii]
Joan Planellas i Barnosell, archbishop of Tarragona[iii]
José Ángel Saiz Meneses, archbishop of Sevilla
José María Gil Tamayo, archbishop of Granada[iii]
Mario Iceta, archbishop of Burgos[iii]
Luis Argüello Garcia , archbishop of Valladolid
Juan Antonio Aznárez , archbishop of Castrense
Joan Enric Vives i Sicília, archbishop of Urgell[iii]
Titular bishops
Abilio Martínez Varea , bishop of Osma-Soria
Agustí Cortés Soriano , bishop of Sant Feliú de Llobregat
Alfonso Carrasco Rouco, bishop of Lugo
Ángel Fernández Collado , bishop of Albacete
Ángel Javier Pérez Pueyo , bishop of Barbastro-Monzón
Antonio Gómez Cantero , bishop of Almería
Antonio Prieto Lucena , bishop of Alcalá de Henares
Atilano Rodríguez Martínez , bishop of Sigüenza-Guadalajara
Bernardo Álvarez Afonso, bishop of Tenerife[iii]
Casimiro López Llorente , bishop of Segorbe-Castellón
César Augusto Franco Martínez , bishop of Segovia
Demetrio Fernández González, bishop of Córdoba[iii]
Ernesto Brotóns Tena , bishop of Plasencia
Fernando García Cadiñanos , bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
Fernando Prado Ayuso , bishop of San Sebastián
Fernando Valera Sánchez , bishop of Zamora
Francisco Jesús Orozco Mengíbar, bishop of Guadix[iii]
Francisco Simón Conesa Ferrer , bishop of Solsona
Gerard Villalonga , bishop of Menorca
Gerardo Melgar Viciosa , bishop of Cuidad Real
Ginés García Beltrán , bishop of Getafe
Jesús Catalá Ibáñez , bishop of Málaga
Jesús Fernández González , bishop of Astorga
Jesús Pulido Arriero , bishop of Coria-Cáceres
Jesús Rico García , bishop of Ávila
José Antonio Satué , bishop of Teruel and Albarracín
José Ignacio Munilla , bishop of Orihuela-Alicante
José Luis Retana Gozalo , bishop of Salamanca and de Ciudad Rodrigo
José Manuel Lorca Planes , bishop of Cartagena
José Mazuelos Pérez, bishop of Canarias[iii]
José María Yanguas Sanz , bishop of Cuenca[iv]
José Rico Pavés, bishop of Jerez de la Frontera[iii]
Joseba Segura Etxezarraga , bishop of Bilbao
Juan Carlos Elizalde , bishop of Vitoria
Julián Ruiz Martorell , bishop of Huesca and de Jaca
Leonardo Lemos Montanet , bishop of Ourense
Luis Ángel de las Heras Berzal, bishop of León[iii]
Luis Quinteiro Fiuza , bishop of Tui-Vigo
Manuel Herrero , bishop of Palencia
Manuel Sánchez Monge , bishop of Santander
Rafael Zornoza, bishop of Cádiz and Ceuta[iii]
Román Casanova , bishop of Vic
Salvador Cristau Coll, bishop of Terrassa[iii]
Salvador Giménez Valls, bishop of Lleida[iii]
Santiago Gómez Sierra , bishop of Huelva
Santos Montoya , bishop of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño
Sebastià Taltavull , bishop of Mallorca
Sebastián Chico Martínez , bishop of Jaén
Sergi Gordo Rodríguez , bishop of Tortosa
Vicente Rebollo Mozos , bishop of Tarazona
Vicente Ribas Prats, bishop of Ibiza
Auxiliary bishops
Arturo Pablo Ros Murgadas , auxiliary bishop of Valencia
César García Magán , auxiliary bishop of Toledo
Cristóbal Déniz Hernández , auxiliary bishop of Canarias
David Abadías , auxiliary bishop of Barcelona
Jesús Vidal Chamorro , auxiliary bishop of Madrid
José María Avendaño , auxiliary bishop of Getafe
Juan Antonio Martínez Camino , auxiliary bishop of Madrid
Javier Vilanova Pellisa , auxiliary bishop of Barcelona
Ramón Valdivia , auxiliary bishop of Sevilla
Teodoro León Muñoz , auxiliary bishop of Sevilla
Emeritus archbishops
Antonio Cañizares Llovera, cardinal emeritus archbishop of Valencia[iii]
Antonio María Rouco Varela, cardinal emeritus archbishop of Madrid[iii]
Braulio Rodríguez Plaza, emeritus archbishop of Toledo[iii]
Carlos Osoro Sierra, cardinal emeritus archbishop of Madrid[iii]
Lluís Martínez Sistach, cardinal emeritus archbishop of Barcelona[iii]
Ricardo Blázquez, cardinal emeritus archbishop of Valladolid[iii]
Fidel Herráez , emeritus archbishop of Burgos
Francisco Gil Hellín , emeritus archbishop of Burgos
Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández , emeritus archbishop of Granada
Jaume Pujol Balcells , emeritus archbishop of Tarragona
Juan Asenjo Pelegrina, emeritus archbishop of Sevilla[iii]
Julián Barrio Barrio, emeritus archbishop of Santiago de Compostela[iii]
Manuel Ureña Pastor, emeritus archbishop of Zaragoza[iii]
Vicente Jiménez Zamora, emeritus archbishop of Zaragoza[iii]
Emeritus bishops
Adolfo González Montes , emeritus bishop of Almería
Amadeo Rodríguez Magro , emeritus bishop of Jaén
Ángel Rubio Castro , emeritus bishop of Segovia
Carlos López Hernández , emeritus bishop of Salamanca
Carlos Soler Perdigó , emeritus bishop of Girona
Ciriaco Benavente Mateos , emeritus bishop of Akbacete
Eusebio Hernández Sola , emeritus bishop of Tarazona
Francisco Cases Andreu, emeritus bishop of Canarias[iii]
Jesús García Burillo , emeritus bishop of Ávila
Jesús Murgui , emeritus bishop of Orihuela-Alicante
Joaquín María López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo, emeritus bishop of Getafe[iii]
Joan Piris , emeritus bishop of Lleida
José Sánchez González , emeritus bishop of Sigüenza-Guadalajara
José Vilaplana , emeritus bishop of Huelva
Juan Antonio Reig Plà , emeritus bishop of Alcalá de Henares
Juan Uriarte, emeritus bishop of San Sebastián
Julián López Martín , emeritus bishop of Leó
Manuel Ureña Pastor, emeritus bishop of Zaragoza[iii]
Nicolás Castellanos Franco , emeritus bishop of Palencia
Ramón Buxarrais Ventura , emeritus bishop of Málaga
Ramón del Hoyo López , emeritus bishop of Jaén
Raúl Berzosa , emeritus bishop of Cuidad Rodrigo
Victorio Oliver Domingo , emeritus bishop of Alcalá de Henares
Xavier Novell, emeritus bishop of Solsona
Emeritus Auxiliary bishops
Esteban Escudero Torres , emeritus auxiliar bishop of Valencia
Javier Salinas Viñals , emeritus auxiliar bishop of Valencia
Vicente Juan Segura, emeritus auxiliar bishop of Valencia[iii]
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- ^ A military ordinariate that provides pastoral care to the Spanish Armed Forces.
- ^ The two others are the archbishop of the previously mentioned military ordinariate and the archbishop of Urgell, the Co-prince of Andorra
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