Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Portugal
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- 0040-0100
- Toledo - Spain
- 0300-0400
- Toledo (Metr.) - Spain
- 1225
- Fez (established from Toledo) - Morocco
- 300~
- Ebora / Évora - Portugal
- 306
- Ossonoba - Portugal
- 300-350
- Olisipo / Lisboa - Portugal
- 300-400
- Aquae Flaviae / Chaves - Portugal
- 350-390
- Bracara / Braga - Portugal
- 440-461
- Bracara / Braga (Metr.) - Portugal
- 500-563
- Conimbriga / Aeminium / Coimbra (detached from Olisipo) - Portugal
- 500-600
- (Pax Iulia / Paca / Beja (legendary, somewhat doubtful; probably detached from Ebora if it existed) - Portugal)
- 550-572
- Egitania / Idanha - Portugal
- 550-572
- Veseo / Viseu (detached from Olisipo) - Portugal
- 550-588
- Portucale / Porto / Oporto (detached from Bracara) - Portugal
- 569-572
- Lamecum / Lamego (detached from Olisipo) - Portugal
688 and 711-718
Arab conquest of Portugal took place between 711 and 718: All dioceses were then abandoned. (Ossonoba in the south had fallen already in 688). Sometimes bishops were appointed to these dioceses but remained in the court of Asturian or Leonese kings, rendering them, in a sense, to bishops "in partibus infidelis". - 688
- Ossonoba (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 711-718
- Aquae Flaviae / Chaves (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 711-718
- Braga (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 711-718
- (Pax Iulia / Paca / Beja (abandoned, uncertain if the diocese ever existed) - Portugal)
- 711-718
- Porto / Oporto (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 711-718
- Viseu (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 712
- Coimbra (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 714
- Ebora / Évora (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 714
- Lamego (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 715
- Egitania / Idanha (abandoned during Arab Muslim conquest, see destroyed) - Portugal
- 716
- Olisipo / Lisboa (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Portugal
- 832
- Braga (although still in Muslim hands, formally incorporated in Lugo [in today's Spain]) - Portugal
- 872
- Porto / Oporto (restored during brief Christian reconquest) - Portugal
- 920~?
- Porto / Oporto (abandoned after Muslim reconquest) - Portugal
- 1071
- Braga (Metr., restored, detached from Lugo [in today's Spain], Braga now also incorporating the territory of the old diocese of Aquae Flaviae / Chaves) - Portugal
- 1080
- Coimbra (restored) - Portugal
- 1112
- Oporto (restored) - Portugal
- 1147
- Lamego (restored) - Portugal
- 1147
- Lisboa (restored) - Portugal
- 1147
- Viseu (restored) - Portugal
- 1165
- Évora (restored) - Portugal
- 1203 (or 1199)
- Guarda (restored, new name and new location of see, previously Egitania / Idanha ) - Portugal
- 1250~
- Guarda (new name, see transferred from Idanha) - Portugal
- 1253
- Silves / Sylves (restored, new name and new location of see, previously Ossonoba) - Portugal
- 1394
- Lisboa (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Santiago de Compostela) - Portugal
- 1418
- Ceuta - (detached from Marrakesh) - (Portuguese Morocco) Spain
- 1487~
- Safim (detached from Marrakesh before 1487) - (Portuguese Morocco) Morocco
- 1459
- Tanger / Tangier (detached from Ceuta, and from Marrakesh) - (Portuguese Morocco) Morocco
- 1514
- Funchal (established by the Portuguese, see footnote) - Portugal
- 1533
- Funchal (Metr.) - Portugal
- 1534
- Angra (detached from Funchal) - Portugal
- 1540
- Évora (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Lisboa) - Portugal
- 1542
- Safim (incorporated in Tanger) - (Portuguese Morocco) Morocco
- 1545
- Leiria (detached from Coimbra) - Portugal
- 1545
- Miranda (detached from Braga) - Portugal
- 1550
- Portalegre (detached from Évora, and from Guarda) - Portugal
- 1551
- Funchal (D) - Portugal
- 1570
- Elvas (detached from Évora) - Portugal
- 1570
- Tanger (suppressed) - (Portuguese Morocco) Morocco
- 1577
- Faro (new name, see moved, previously Silves) - Portugal
- 1645
- Ceuta (vacant) - Spain (for further history: see Spain)
- 1716
- Lisboa (Patr.) - Portugal
- 1716
- Western Lisboa (Patr.) - Portugal
- 1716
- Eastern Lisboa (Metr.) - Portugal
- 1740
- Eastern Lisboa (suppressed, incorporated in Lisboa) - Portugal
- 1740
- Lisboa (Patr., new name, previously Western Lisboa) - Portugal
- 1770
- Beja (reestablished, detached from Évora) - Portugal
- 1770
- Bragança (detached from Miranda) - Portugal
- 1770
- Penafiel - Portugal
- 1770
- Pinhel (detached from Lamego) - Portugal
- 1774
- Aveiro (detached from Coimbra) - Portugal
- 1778
- Penafiel (suppressed) - Portugal
- 1780
- Bragança e Miranda (united) - Portugal
- 1829
- Elvas (vacant, de facto suppressed) - Portugal
- 1831
- Castelo Branco (vacant, de facto suppressed) - Portugal
- 1833
- Portalegre (vacant) - Portugal
- 1837
- Aveiro (vacant, de facto suppressed) - Portugal
- 1838
- Pinhel (vacant, de facto suppressed) - Portugal
- 1873
- Leiria (vacant, de facto suppressed) - Portugal
- 1881
- Aveiro (formally suppressed) - Portugal
- 1881
- Castelo Branco (formally suppressed, incorporated in Portalegre) - Portugal
- 1881
- Elvas (formally suppressed, incorporated in Évora) - Portugal
- 1881
- Leiria (formally suppressed, incorporated in Coimbra) - Portugal
- 1881
- Pinhel (formally suppressed, incorporated in Guarda) - Portugal
- 1918
- Leiria (reestablished, detached from Coimbra) - Portugal
- 1922
- Vila Real (detached from Braga, from Bragança e Miranda, and from Lamego) - Portugal
- 1938
- Aveiro (reestablished, detached from Coimbra, from Porto, and from Viseu) - Portugal
- 1956
- Portalegre-Castelo Branco (new name, previously Portalegre) - Portugal
- 1966, 2001
- Portugal (Mil.Ord.) - Portugal
- 1975
- Santarém (detached from Lisboa) - Portugal
- 1975
- Setúbal - (detached from Lisboa) - Portugal
- 1977
- Viana do Castelo (detached from Braga) - Portugal
- 1984
- Leiria-Fátima (new name, previously Leiria) - Portugal