History

• 811: Established as Diocese of Oviedo
• October 27, 1954: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Oviedo

Suffragan dioceses

• Astorga
• León
• Santander

Special churches

• Minor Basilica
  Basilica
  The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a Roman public building, usually located in the forum of a Roman town. Public basilicas began to appear in Hellenistic cities in the 2nd century BC.The term was also applied to buildings used for religious purposes...
  
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  • Basilica of Santa María la Real, Covadonga
    Covadonga
    Covadonga is a village and one of 11 parishes in Cangas de Onís, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northwestern Spain...
    
    , Principado de Asturias
  • Basilica of Santa María Magdalena, Cangas del Narcea
    Cangas del Narcea
    Cangas del Narcea is the oldest municipality in the Principality of Asturias in Spain. It is also the largest municipality in Asturias. It is in the southwest of Asturias, on the Asturian border with León...
    
    , Principado de Asturias
  • Basilica-Santuary of Sagrado Corazón, Gijón
    Gijón
    Gijón , officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
    
    , Principado de Asturias
  • Basilica of Santa Maria de la Asunción de Llanes, Llanes
    Llanes
    Llanes a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east of the province, Llanes is bounded to the south by the high ridge of the limestone Sierra del Cuera, which rises to over 1,100 m...
    
    , Principado de Asturias

• World Heritage Churches
  • Basilica of San Julián de los Prados
    San Julián de los Prados
    - External links :* * *...
    
    , Oviedo
    Oviedo
    Oviedo is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city....
    
    , Principado de Asturias
  • Church of San Miguel de Lillo
    San Miguel de Lillo
    -External links:* * http://www.360cities.net/business/san-miguel-de-lillo-oviedo-world-heritage* http://www.santamariadelnaranco.es/...
    
    , Oviedo
    Oviedo
    Oviedo is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city....
    
    , Principado de Asturias
  • Church of Santa Cristina de Lena
    Santa Cristina de Lena
    St Christine of Lena is a Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque church located in the Lena municipality, about 25 km south of Oviedo, Spain, on an old Roman road that joined the lands of the plateau with Asturias....
    
    , Oviedo
    Oviedo
    Oviedo is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city....
    
    , Principado de Asturias
  • Church of Santa María del Naranco
    Santa María del Naranco
    The church of St Mary at Mount Naranco is a Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque Asturian architecture church on the slope of Mount Naranco situated 3 km from Oviedo, northern Spain. Ramiro I of Asturias ordered it to be built as a royal palace as part of a larger complex that also...
    
    , Oviedo
    Oviedo
    Oviedo is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city....
    
    , Principado de Asturias

Leadership

• Adulfo (802-812)
• Gomelo I (852)
• Serrano (853-858)
• Hermenegildo I (881)
• Gomelo II
  Gomelo II
  Gomelo II was the Bishop of Oviedo during the final years of the reign of Alfonso III of Asturias. He succeeded Hermenegild I probably about 892. Only one document from his episcopate survives, though it was interfered with at a later date by Pelagius of Oviedo...
  
   (905-909)
• Flacino (909-912)
• Oveco
  Oveco (Bishop of Oviedo)
  Oveco was the Bishop of Oviedo from 913/4, whose episcopate lasted almost half a century. Despite his longevity he is a relatively obscure figure. His origins lie in the same landed and wealthy aristocratic family as those of the Count Piniolo who founded the monastery of San Juan Bautista de...
  
   (913-962)
  • Hermenegildo II, auxiliary bishop
• Diego
  Diego (Bishop of Oviedo)
  Diego was the eighth Bishop of Oviedo. The chief source for information about him is his testament, which survives in the archives of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo. His episcopate began with the death of his predecessor, Oveco, sometime between 957 and 962.Diego was a native of the village...
  
   (962-968)
• Bermudo
  Bermudo (Bishop of Oviedo)
  Bermudo or Vermudo was the ninth Bishop of Oviedo. Historians and clerics Manuel Risco and Carlos González de Posada both date his episcopate to 976–92...
  
   (976-991)
• Gudesteo
  Gudesteus (Bishop of Oviedo)
  Gudesteus or Gudesteo was the tenth Bishop of Oviedo. He served as an auxiliary bishop to Bishop Bermudo, perhaps by then old and physically weak, from at least 978 and succeeded him as sole bishop on his death, probably in 992...
  
   (991-996)
• Agda (-1024)
• Ponce (1025-1028)
• Froilán (1035-1073)
• Arias Cromaz (1073-1094)
• Martín I
  Martin I (Bishop of Oviedo)
  Martin I was the fifteenth Bishop of Oviedo from 1094.On 23 March 1097 Alfonso VI, probably at Sahagún, where he had spent Christmas, made a large donation to Bishop Martin which was confirmed by most of the major court figures...
  
   (1094-1101)
• Pelayo (1098-1129)
• Alfonso (1129-1142)
• Martín II (1143-1156)
• Pedro I (1156-1175)
• Rodrigo (1175-1188)
• Menendo (1188-1189)
• Juan González (1189-1243)
• Pedro II (1251-1269)
• Fernando Martínez (1269-1275)
• Alvero (1275) (Electo)
• Fredolo (1275-1284)
• Peregrino (1286-1289)
• Miguel (1289-1292)
• Fernando Álvarez (1293-1295) (first time)
• Fernando Alfonso (1295-1301)
• Fernando Álvarez (1302-1321) (second)
• Odón (1323-1328)
• Juan de Campo (1328-1332)
• Juan Sancho (1332-1345)
• Alfonso II (1345-1348)
• Sancho (1348-1369)
• Gutierre de Toledo (1377-1389)
• Guillermo García Manrique (1389-1412)
• Álvaro (1397-1412)
• Diego Ramírez de Guzmán
  Diego Ramírez de Guzmán
  Diego Ramirez de Guzman became the bishop of Catania, Italy on 26 June 1500, after having been promoted previously to bishop of Lugo, Spain, on 7 February 1500 . He replaced there Spanish bishop Francisco Desprats,...
  
   (1412-1441)
• García Enríquez Osorio (1441-1442)
• Diego Rapado (1442-1444)
• Iñigo Manrique de Lara (1444–1457)
• Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
  Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
  Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo was a Spanish churchman, historian and political theorist....
  
   (1457-1467)
• Bishop García Ramírez Villaescusa (1502.03.16 – 1508.04.23)
• García Ramírez Villaescusa (16 Mar 1502 - 23 Apr 1508)
• Valeriano Ordóñez Villaquirán (22 Dec 1508 - 12 Aug 1512)
• Diego de Muros (1 Oct 1512 - 18 Aug 1525)
• Francisco Mendoza (6 Nov 1525 - 3 Apr 1527 )
• Diego Acuña (23 Apr 1527 - 1532 Died)
• Fernando de Valdés Salas (1 Jul 1532 - 30 May 1539 )
• Martín Tristán Calvete (30 May 1539 - 1546 Died)
• Cristóbal Rojas Sandoval (8 Oct 1546 - 4 May 1556 )
• Jerónimo Velasco (4 May 1556 - 16 Aug 1566 Died)
• Juan Ayora (8 Jan 1567 - 24 May 1569)
• Gonzalo de Solórzano (18 Feb 1570 - 1580)
• Francisco Antonio Orantes Vélez, O.F.M. (6 Mar 1581 - 12 Oct 1584)
• Diego Aponte Quiñones, O.S. (28 Jan 1585 - 31 Aug 1598)
• Gonzalo Gutiérrez Montilla (18 Sep 1598 - 20 Jun 1602)
• Alonso Martínez de la Torre, O.S. (16 Apr 1603 - 11 Sep 1604)
• Juan Alvarez de Caldas (12 Jan 1605 - 14 Apr 1612)
• Francisco de la Cueva, O.S.A. (17 Sep 1612 - 30 Nov 1615)
• Alsono Martín de Zuñiga (18 Jun 1616 - 23 Mar 1623)
• Juan Torres de Osorio (29 May 1624 - 19 Jul 1627)
• Juan Pereda Gudiel (9 Aug 1627 - 25 May 1632)
• Martín Carrillo Alderete (10 Jan 1633 - 9 Jun 1636)
• Antonio Valdés Herrera (23 Jun 1636 - 21 Oct 1641)
• Bernardo Caballero Paredes (13 Jan 1642 - 13 Apr 1661)
• Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola y Guzmán ( 1665 - 9 Apr 1667)
• José Fernández del Toro ( 1707 - Jul 1719 )
• Antonio Maldonado Minoja ( 1720 - 22 Jun 1722 )
• Tomás José Ruiz Montes (15 Mar 1723 - 11 Sep 1724)
• José Hendaya Haro (11 Sep 1724 - 5 Oct 1729)
• Juan Garcia Avello y Castrillón(8 Jan 1730 - 30 Oct 1744)
• Gaspar José Vázquez Tablada (19 Jul 1745 - 29 Dec 1745)
• Felipe Martín Ovejero (22 Jul 1750 - 30 Oct 1753 )
• Juan Francisco Manrique Lara (1 Apr 1754 - 21 Apr 1760)
• Augstín González Pisador (21 Jul 1760 - 17 Mar 1791)
• Juan Llano Ponte(26 Sep 1791 - 29 Apr 1805 Died)
• Gregorio Hermida y Gamba (Camba) (26 Aug 1806 - 10 Nov 1814)
• Gregorio Ceruelo la Fuente (10 Jul 1815 - 26 Mar 1836)
• Ignacio Díaz Caneja (17 Jan 1848 - 20 Nov 1856 Died)
• Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Moreno y Maisanove (25 Sep 1857 - 1 Oct 1863)
• José Luis Montagut Rubio (21 Dec 1863 - 22 Jun 1868)
• Benito Sanz y Forés
  Benito Sanz y Forés
  Benito Sanz y Fores J.C.D. S.T.D. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Seville.Benito Sanz was born in Gandía, Valencia Province. He was educated at the University of Valencia where he studied philosophy and law, obtaining a bachelor's degree in law in 1848...
  
   (22 Jun 1868 - 18 Nov 1881)
• Sebastián Herrero Espinosa de los Monteros (27 Mar 1882 - 15 Mar 1883)
• Ramón Martínez y Vigil, O.P. (27 Mar 1884 - 17 Aug 1904 )
• Francisco Javier Baztán y Urniza (14 Nov 1904 - 18 Oct 1920)
• Juan Bautista Luis y Pérez (30 Nov 1921 - 6 Nov 1934 Died)
• Justo Antonino de Echeguren y Aldama (28 Jan 1935 - 16 Aug 1937)
• Manuel Arce y Ochotorena (22 Jan 1938 - 29 Mar 1944)
• Benjamín de Arriba y Castro (8 Aug 1944 - 22 Jan 1949)
• Francisco Javer Lauzurica y Torralba (8 Apr 1949 - 12 Apr 1964 )
• Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (12 Apr 1964 - 30 Jan 1969)
• Gabino Díaz Merchán (4 Aug 1969 - 7 Jan 2002 )
• Carlos Osoro Sierra (7 Jan 2002 - 8 Jan 2009)
• Jesús Sanz Montes O.F.M. (21 Nov 2009 - )

Source

• Giga-Catholic Information
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Archdiocese website