Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Spain - second draft
See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions.
- 40-100
- Italica - Spain
- 40-100
- Tarragona - Spain
- 100-200
- Cartagena (Metr., legendary origin in Apostolic times) - Spain
- 100-200
- Iliturgi / Andújar (legendary, maybe founded later) - Spain
- 200-250
- Tucci (probably the continuation of Iliturgi, if that was a diocese) - Spain
- 200-253
- León - Spain
- 200-256
- Zaragoza (legendary origin in Apostolic times) - Spain
- 200-279
- Córdoba - Spain
- 200-300
- Acci / Guadix (legandary Origin in Apostolic times) - Spain
- 200-300
- Basti / Baza - Spain
- 200-300
- Emeritas / Mérida - Spain
- 200-300
- Ilurir / Eliberi / Elvira / Granada - Spain
- 200-300
- Palencia - Spain
- 200-300
- Sevilla - Spain
- 247~
- Gerona / Gerunda (legendary origin in Apostolic times) - Spain
- 250~
- Asturica / Astorga - Spain (abandoned after a while)
- 250-300
- Toledo (legendary origin in Apostolic times) - Spain
- 290~
- Málaga - Spain
- 290-343
- Barcelona - Spain
- 300-350
- Cárcere / Charcel - Spain
- 300-350
- Mentesa - Spain
- 300-350
- Cástulo / Cazlona - Spain
- 300-381
- Abela / Avila (legend: Apostolic times) - Spain
- 300-400
- Sevilla (Metr.) - Spain
- 300-400
- Menorca - Spain
- 350-430, or 6th century
- Aurensis / Ourense, Orense - Spain
- 390-449
- Tarazona - Spain
- 400~, or in the 6th century
- Iria Flavia / Iria / Locus Sancti Iacobi - Spain
- 400-463
- Calahorra - Spain
- 400-500
- Asidonia - Spania
- 400-500
- Ausa - Spain
- 400-500
- Complutum / Cómpluto - Spain
- 400-500?
- Ercavica / Arcabrica (abandoned no later than 711) - Spain
- 400-500
- Ibiza - Spain
- 400-500
- Lerida - Spain
- 400-500
- Emeritas / Mérida (Metr.) - Spain
- 400-500
- Osma - Spain
- 400-500?
- Segobriga (abandoned no later than 711) - Spain
- 400-500
- Tarragona (Metr.) - Spain
- 400-500
- Urci / Vergi / Vergium (abandoned no later than 711) - Spain
- 400-500
- Valeria (abandoned no later than 711) - Spain
- 400-589
- Pamplona - Spain
- 425
- Cartagena (D, lost status as Metr. after Vandal destruction) - Spain
- 433~ (legendary: founded during Apostolic times)
- Lucus / Lugo (Metr.) - Spain
- 450~
- Egara (detached from Barcelona) - Spain
- 450-480
- Mallorca - Spain
- 460-480?
- Lugo (D, previously Metr., now a part of the Metropolitan province of Braga) - Spain
- 467-500
- Toledo (Metr.) - Spain
- 480-516
- Tortosa (legendary origin in Apostolic times) - Spain
- 500-527
- Urgel (legend: 4th century) - Spain
- 500-561
- Tude / Tuy - Spain
- 500-572
- Britonia - Spain
- 500-589
- Oca - Spania
- 500-589
- Salmantia / Salamanca (legendary origin: 2nd century) - Spain
- 500-589
- Sigüenza - Spain
- 500-600
- Segorbe - Spain
- 527
- Segovia (detached from Palencia) - Spain
- 531~
- Valencia (tradition: 4th century; first testimony of a bishop 531) - Spain
- 533
- Huesca - Spain
- 550-589
- Caurium / Coria - Spain
- 561
- Lugo (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan province of Braga) - Spain
- 600-656
- Biatia / Baeza (apparently the continuation of Cástulo / Cazlona ) - Spain
- 621
- Caliabria - Spania
- 666
- Lugo (D., previously Metr., now a part of the Metropolitan province of Braga) - Spain
- 674
- Cartagena (vacant/extinct) - Spain
- 693
- Caliabria (abolished) - Spania
- 711
- Pamplona (probably abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711~
- Málaga (extinct) - Spain
- 711-718
- Ausa (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Avila (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Britonia (destroyed during Arab Muslim conquest, de facto incorporated in Oviedo) - Spain
- 711-718
- Cárcere (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Coria (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Gerona (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- León (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Lugo (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Mentesa (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Mérida (abandoned during Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Oca (destroyed during Arab Muslim conquest, abandoned) - Spain
- 711-718
- Osma (abandoned during Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Palencia (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Salamanca (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Segorbe (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Tarragona (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Tucci (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Tuy (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 711-718
- Valencia (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 713
- Barcelona (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 713
- Huesca (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 714
- Segovia (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 715
- Tortosa (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 716
- Orense (destroyed during Arab Muslim conquest, see abandoned) - Spain
- 716
- Roda [Lerida] (established as see for Lerida due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 750-800
- Vicus Ausonensis / Ausona / Vicus / Vic (restored, new name, previously Ausa) - Spain
- 785
- Lugo (D/Metr., restored, a Metropolitan see due to the fact that the Metr. see of Braga - still in Muslim hands - was de jure in union with Lugo) - Spain
- 790~
- León (restored) - Spain
- 798
- Majorca (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 798~
- Menorca (abandoned due to Arab Muslim conquest) - Spain
- 800
- Iria (restored) - Spain
- 800-850
- San Cugat de Vallés (Abb.) - Spain
- 800-900
- Alava - Spain
- 811
- Oviedo - Spain
- 826
- Vicus / Vic (abandoned after Muslim reconquest) - Spain
- 829~
- Pamplona (restored) - Spain
- 832
- Orense (although still in Muslim hands, formally incorporated in Lugo) - Spain
- 846
- León (destroyed during Muslim reconquest) - Spain
- 850, or 747
- Astorga (restored) - Spain
- 850
- Barcelona (restored) - Spain
- 853~
- León (restored) - Spain
- 869
- Oviedo (Metr., was previously part of the Metropolitan province of Braga [de facto Lugo]) - Spain
- 881
- Britonia (restored, detached from Oviedo, see at new location) - Spain
- 881
- Orense (restored during brief Christian reconquest, detached from Lugo) - Spain
- 887
- Lerida (restored, detached from Roda which continues as independent see) - Spain
- 890~
- Tuy (restored) - Spain
- 890-897
- Vicus / Vic (restored) - Spain
- 900-1000
- Egara (incorporated in Barcelona) - Spain
- 905
- Zamora - Spain
- 921
- Palencia (restored, but abandoned again after a while) - Spain
- 939~
- Zamora (abandoned after Muslim invasion) - Spain
- 951?
- Ripoll / Santa Maria de Ripoll (Abb.) - Spain
- 974
- Orense (abandoned after Viking attack and subsequent Muslim reconquest) - Spain
- 988
- Cartagena (mention of a Bishop 988 CE, web C.) - Spain
- 1014
- Tuy (abandoned after Viking attack lead by Olav [later converted and canonized], incorporated in Compostela / Santiago de Compostela) - Spain
- 1015
- Gerona (restored [after some brief restorations earlier]) - Spain
- 1035
- Palencia (restored) - Spain
- 1052
- Nájera y Valpuesta (united) - Spain
- 1063
- Jaca (restored, new name after change of residenced, previously Huesca) - Spain
- 1065
- Nájera (separated from union with Valpuesta) - Spain
- 1065
- Valpuesta (separated from union with Nájera) - Spain
- 1071
- Lugo (D, previously in fact a Metropolitan see, as the bishop was also Ordinary of the abandoned diocese of Braga [in today's Portugal. The Metr. see of Braga was restored in 1071) - Spain
- 1071
- Orense (restored) - Spain
- 1071
- Tuy (restored) - Spain
- 1075
- Burgos (new name, restored, previously Oca) - Spain
- 1080~
- Osma (restored, one restoration in the 9/10th century had failed) - Spain
- 1087
- Valpuesta (incorporated in Burgos) - Spain
- 1088
- Alava (incorporated in Calahorra) - Spain
- 1088
- Avila (restored) - Spain
- 1094
- Valencia (revived during brief Christian reconquest) - Spain
- 1095
- Compostela (new name after transferral to new see, previously Iria) - Spain
- 1096
- Huesca (new name after return to original site, previously Jaca) - Spain
- 1099
- Cómpluto (suppressed, incorporated in Toledo) - Spain
- 1101
- Barbastro (new name as see is transferred, previously Roda) - Spain
- 1102~
- Salamanca (de facto restoration about now, the bishops with title to Salamanca returned to reside there) - Spain
- 1105~
- Oviedo (D, previously Metr.) - Spain
- 1109
- Valencia (abandoned, burnt before Muslim reconquest) - Spain
- 1114
- Mondoñedo (new name, previously Britonia) - Spain
- 1116
- Tarragona (Metr., restored [probably there was a brief restoration in the 11th century as well]) - Spain
- 1120
- Compostela / Santiago de Compostela (Metr., was not part of any Metropolitan Province but immediately subject to the Apostolic See) - Spain
- 1120
- Segovia (restored) - Spain
- 1121
- Zamora (successfully restored [after failed attempts in the 11th century]) - Spain
- 1142
- Coria (restored) - Spain
- 1146
- Asidonia / Medina Sidonia (suppressed by the Almohades) - Spain
- 1149
- Tortosa (restored [probably there was a brief restoration in the 11th century as well]) - Spain
- 1150~
- Baza (abandoned during the rule of the Almohades) - Spain
- 1150~
- Granada (abandoned) - Spain
- 1150~
- Guadix (abandoned) - Spain
- 1150
- Valldaura / Santes Creus / Santa Maria de Santes Creus (Abb.) - Spain
- 1168
- Ciudad Rodrigo (new name, considered restoration of the Visigoth diocese of Caliabria) - Spain
- 1172
- Albarracín - Spain
- 1183
- Cuenca - Spain
- 1189
- Plasencia - Spain
- 1200-1300
- Calahorra-La Calzada (united) - Spain
- 1200-1300
- La Calzada - Spain
- 1230
- Badajoz (might possivly be considered a revival and transferral of the see of Mérida) - Spain
- 1237
- Mallorca (reestablished, detached from Barcelona) - Spain
- 1238
- Valencia (reestablished) - Spain
- 1241
- Cadiz - Spain
- 1248
- Jaén (new name, previously Baeza / Baza, see transferred) - Spain
- 1250
- Cartagena /a.k.a. Cartagena-Murcia (restored after the Reconquest) - Spain
- 1258
- Segorbe and Albarracín (united, Segorbe restored) - Spain
- 1300-1400
- Beas (Vicariate of the Military Order of Saint James) - Spain
- 1300-1400
- Martos (Vicariate of the Military Order of Calatrava) - Spain
- 1300-1400
- Segura (Vicariate of the Military Order of Saint James) - Spain
- 1306
- Baza (restored) - Spain
- 1318
- Zaragoza (Metr.) - Spain
- 1340
- Alcalá la Real (Abbey) - Spain
- 1351
- Insulas Fortunatis / Islas Canarias (erected by monks out of Mallorca) - Spain
- 1352
- Cadiz y Algeciras (new name, previously Cadiz) - Spain
- 1354
- Islas Canarias (vacant/abandoned) - Spain
- 1369
- Telde / Islas Canarias (revived) - Spain
- 1393
- Islas Canarias (abandoned) - Spain
- 1404
- Rubicon / Islas Canarias (revived) - Spain
- 1418
- Ceuta (detached from Marrakesh) - (Portuguese Morocco) Spain
- 1431
- Montserrat / Santa Maria de Montserrat (Abb., detached from Ripoll) - Spain
- 1437
- Granada (revived) - Spain
- 1485
- Las Palmas / Islas Canarias (new name, previously Rubicon) - Spain
- 1486
- Guadix (reestablished) - Spain
- 1487
- Málaga (reestablished) - Spain
- 1492
- Almeria (restored, new name, previously Urci / Vergi / Vergium) - Spain
- 1492
- Granada (Metr.) - Spain
- 1492
- Valencia (Metr.) - Spain
- 1493
- Baza / Baeza (incorporated in Guadix) - Spain
- 1564
- Orihuela (detached from Cartagena) - Spain
- 1571
- Jaca (erected as a new diocese; the old Jaca was merely a temporary see of the diocese called Huesca) - Spain
- 1574
- Burgos (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Zaragoza) - Spain
- 1577
- Albarracín (detached from Segorbe and Albarracín) - Spain
- 1577
- Segorbe (new name, previously Segorbe and Albarracín) - Spain
- 1577
- Teruel (detached from Zaragoza) - Spain
- 1593
- Solsona (detached from Urgel, and from Vic) - Spain
- 1595
- Valladolid (detached from Palencia) - Spain
- 1645
- Ceuta (vacant) - Spain
- 1754
- Santander (detached from Burgos) - Spain
- 1783
- Tudela (D, previously Prel.) - Spain
- 1782
- Ibiza (detached from Tarragona?) - Spain
- 1782
- Menorca (detached from Mallorca) - Spain
- 1819
- San Cristóbal de la Laguna / Tenerife (detached from Islas Canarias) - Spain
- 1843/1851
- Ciudad Rodrigo (vacant; the concordat of 1851 prescribed its suppression, but this was not effectuated) - Spain
- 1851
- Albarracín (united to Teruel) - Spain
- 1851
- Cadiz y Ceuta (new name, after union of Cadiz y Algeciras, and Ceuta [de facto a titular See at this time]) - Spain
- 1851
- Ceuta (united to Cadiz) - Spain
- 1851
- Ibiza (united to Mallorca) - Spain
- 1851
- Montserrat / Santa Maria de Montserrat (Abb., incorporated in Gerona) - Spain
- 1851
- Pamplona y Tudela (united) - Spain
- 1851 (de facto 1838)
- Ripoll / Santa Maria de Ripoll (Abb., incorporated in Gerona) - Spain
- 1851 (de facto abolished 1835)
- San Cugat de Vallés (Abb., incorporated in Barcelona) - Spain
- 1851 (de facto abolished 1835)
- Valldaura / Santes Creus / Santa Maria de Santes Creus (Abb., incorporated in Tarragona) - Spain
- 1857
- Valladolid (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Toledo) - Spain
- 1861
- Vitoria (detached from Burgos, from Calahorra, from Santander, and from Pamplona) - Spain
- 1867
- Ciudad Rodrigo (revived after long vacancy) - Spain
- 1873
- Alcalá la Real (Abbey, incorporated in Jaén) - Spain
- 1873
- Beas (Vicariate of the Military Order of Saint James, incorporated in Jaén) - Spain
- 1873
- Martos (Vicariate of the Military Order of Calatrava, incorporated in Jaén) - Spain
- 1873
- Segura (Vicariate of the Military Order of Saint James, incorporated in Jaén) - Spain
- 1875
- Ciudad Real / Bishopric-Priorate of the Military Orders (Prel./Priorate, detached from Toledo, Cordoba, and from Cuenca) - Spain
- 1885
- Madrid-Alcalá (detached from Toledo) - Spain
- 1889
- Pamplona (new name, previously Pamplona y Tudela) - Spain
- 1889
- Tudela (detached from Pamplona, and placed under administration of Tarazona) - Spain
- 1927
- Ibiza (AA, detached from Mallorca) - Spain
- 1949
- Albacete (detached from Cartagena, from Cuenca, and from Orihuela) - Spain
- 1949
- Bilbao (detached from Vitoria, from Santander, and from Calahorra y la Calzada) - Spain
- 1949
- Ibiza - Spain
- 1949
- San Sebastián - Spain
- 1950
- España (Mil.Ord.) - Spain
- 1952
- Huelva (detached from Sevilla) - Spain
- 1954
- Oviedo (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Santiago de Compostela) - Spain
- 1956
- Pamplona (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Zaragoza) - Spain
- 1957
- Coria-Cáceres (new name, previously Coria) - Spain
- 1959
- Calahorra y la Calzada-Logroño (new name, previously Calahorra y la Calzada) - Spain
- 1959
- Mondoñedo-Ferrol (new name, previously Mondoñedo) - Spain
- 1959
- Orihuela-Alicante (new name, previously Orihuela) - Spain
- 1959
- Osma-Soria (new name, previously Osma) - Spain
- 1959
- Sigüenza-Guadalajara (new name, previously Sigüenza) - Spain
- 1959
- Tuy-Vigo (new name, previously Tuy) - Spain
- 1960
- Segorbe-Castellón de la Plana (new name, previously Segorbe) - Spain
- 1964
- Barcelona (AD, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Tarragona) - Spain
- 1964
- Madrid-Alcalá (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Toledo) - Spain
- 1980
- Ciudad Real (D, previously Priorate "nullius")- Spain
- 1980
- Jerez de la Frontera (detached from Sevilla, considered heir to the ancient Asidonia / Medina Sidonia) - Spain
- 1984
- Pamplona (Metr.) y Tudela (new name, previously Pamplona Metr.) - Spain
- 1984
- Teruel y Albarracín (new name, previously Teruel) - Spain
- 1991
- Alcalá de Henares (detached from Madrid-Alcalá, restores the ancient Complutum / Cómpluto) - Spain
- 1991
- Madrid (Metr., new name, previously Madrid-Alcalá) - Spain
- 1991
- Getafe (detached from Madrid) - Spain
- 1992
- Lleida - (new name, previously Lerida) - Spain
- 1992
- Tui-Vigo (new name, previously Tuy-Vigo) - Spain
- 1992
- Urgell (new name, previously Urgel) - Spain
- 1994
- Mérida-Badajoz (Metr., and new name, previously Badajoz, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Sevilla) - Spain
- 2004
- Barcelona (Metr.) - Spain
- 2004
- Sant Feliu de Llobregat (detached from Barcelona) - Spain
- 2004
- Terrassa (detached from Barcelona) - Spain
This is just a working draft, only posted to make it easier for collaborators to assist in perfecting the list. The draft ought not be trusted at this stage. Claes.Tande@katolsk.no
= The jurisdiction is already (or ought to be) mentioned above. These entries will later be made into italics.
Titular dioceses of Spain, according to Annuario Pontificio 2000
(Some of the Galicia ones might be in present-day Portugal.)
| Province | Name | Present name |
| - | Algeciras, Insulae Viridis | - |
| - | Elepla | Niebla |
| - | Italica | Santiponce |
| - | Tucci | Martos |
| - | Ursona | Osuna |
| - | Astigi | Ecija |
| Canarias | Sevilla | Fuerteventura |
| Canarias | Sevilla | Telde |
| Galicia | Britonia | Santa Maria de Breto |
| Galicia | Celene | Caldas de Reyes |
| Galicia | Iria Flavia | Iria |
| Galicia | Valabria | Villamayor de Brea |
| Sevilla | Egabro | Cabra |
| Sevilla | Fuerteventura | |
| Sevilla | Illiberi | Elvira |
| Sevilla | Ipagro | Aguilar de la Frontera |
| Sevilla | Rubicon | Lanzarote |
| Sevilla | Telde (Canarias) | - |
| Sevilla | Vergi | Verja |
| Tarragona | Alava | - |
| Tarragona | Amaia | Amaya |
| Tarragona | Auca | Villafranca Montes de Oca |
| Tarragona | Egara | Tarrasa |
| Tarragona | Naiera | Nájera |
| Tarragona | Rota | - |
| Tarragona | Rotdon | Rosas |
| Tarragona | Sasabe | Sasave |
| Tarragona | Segia | - |
| Tarragona | Segisama | Sasamón |
| Tarragona | Valliposita | Valpuesta |
| Toledo | Abula | Abla |
| Toledo | Acci | Guadix |
| Toledo | Arcavica | ruin near Cuenca |
| Toledo | Basti | Baza |
| Toledo | Beatia | - |
| Toledo | Bigastro, Begastri | Cehegin |
| Toledo | Castulo | Cazlona |
| Toledo | Diano | Denia |
| Toledo | Elicroca | Lorca |
| Toledo | Elo | Montalegre |
| Toledo | Illici | Elche |
| Toledo | Mentesa | La Guardia |
| Toledo | Oreto, Oretum | Granatula |
| Toledo | Saetabis | Játiva |
| Toledo | Urci | Torre de Villaricos |
| Toledo | Valeria | Valera de Abajo |