Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugo


The Catholic Diocese of Lugo is one of the five Roman Catholic sees within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela.
The cathedral episcopal see is in the Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel, in Lugo city.
It also has a World Heritage Site : the Cistercian Monastery of Santa María, in Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coruña, Galicia.

Extent and statistics

As per 2012, it pastorally served 288,000 Catholics on 7,703 km² in 1,139 parishes with 376 priests, 318 lay religious and 7 seminarians.
Its jurisdiction covers 1,138 parishes in three administrative Spanish provinces :

History

;Suffragan Bishops of Lugo
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Metropolitan Archbishops of Lugo
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Suffragan Bishops of Lugo