Diócesis - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:51:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Diócesis - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Map of the ecclesiastical division of Spain at the end of the 18th century https://historylab.es/map-of-the-ecclesiastical-division-of-spain-at-the-end-of-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=map-of-the-ecclesiastical-division-of-spain-at-the-end-of-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:59 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mapa-de-la-division-eclesiastica-de-espana-a-finales-del-siglo-xviii/ Division into archdioceses, dioceses, archpriestships and parishes in Spain

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]]> During the Modern Age, Spain acquired numerous regional and provincial divisions. The different eras and reigns, especially in the 18th century, modified the jurisdictional divisions of the civil administration. The Enlightenment sought a more rationalised structure of Spain with criteria of convergence of interests. However, there was another division, parallel to the civil division, and equally important. This was the ecclesiastical division into archbishoprics. The Spanish ecclesiastical structure took shape during the Reconquest, with the archbishopric of Toledo being the greatest beneficiary on a territorial level due to its central location. Like the civil structure, it underwent changes, arriving at the end of the 18th century with the structures shown on the map. The archbishopric of Toledo was still the most important in the Peninsula and one of the largest, along with the archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. These large areas were subdivided into dioceses and bishoprics and these, in turn, into vicariates, archpriestships and parishes. The complicated interweaving of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions meant that they did not coincide with each other until well into the contemporary period. Even some provinces, such as Albacete, did not have civil-religious concordance until the creation of its diocese in 1949.

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]]> Geographical origin of the seminarians of San Pelagio (Cordoba, 17th century) https://historylab.es/geographical-origin-of-the-seminarians-of-san-pelagio-cordoba-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geographical-origin-of-the-seminarians-of-san-pelagio-cordoba-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/procedencia-geografica-de-los-seminaristas-de-san-pelagio-cordoba-siglo-xvii/ Resource showing the origin of the students of the Seminary of San Pelagio in Cordoba between 1600 and 1699, a seminary created in the heat of the Council of Trent and not exempt from conflict due to economic and institutional interests

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]]> Session XXIII of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) agreed to the creation of centres dedicated exclusively to priestly formation. The centres were to be controlled by the bishops of each diocese and the financial endowment was to come from episcopal and capitular revenues. The loss of income on the part of the diocesan councils, and the opposition of the existing colleges and universities that also trained the clergy, meant that the new seminaries were only slightly established. In the case of the diocese of Cordoba, the Seminary of San Pelagio was established between 1583 and 1600. Where did the new seminarians come from? Of the 352 students that the institution had in the 17th century, the vast majority, 315, were born in the diocese and province of Cordoba (89.49%), followed by the towns also belonging to the bishopric of Cordoba, but not to the civil province (23, 6.54%). A further 13 pupils (3.69%) were born in neither the jurisdiction of the bishopric nor the civil province of Cordoba, and only 1 pupil (0.28%) was from a town in the province, but whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction differed. By origin, the vast majority came from rural areas (294 pupils, 86.73%), and 13.27% were from the city of Cordoba. The author notes that, although the capital of Córdoba accounted for 13.27% of the total, the 45 pupils from that city constituted the largest number of pupils from the same nucleus, followed by rural areas such as Castro del Río (21) and Pozoblanco (18).

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