Niebla (España)

Historia

Niebla is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, in Andalusia, southern Spain, as Elepla a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 4,200 inhabitants. A 2-km town wall surrounds the perimeter of the town.Ecclesiastical historyNiebla has once been a Catholic bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sevilla in the Visigothic Kingdom, founded probably around 400.It survived the Muslim conquest of Iberia, until the arrival of the most intolerant Almohads in the 12 century, when its last (name lost) bishop fled to Seville.Its former territory is now entirely comprised in the Diocese of Huelva.''Suffragan Bishops of Elepla/Niebla incomplete Vincomalos (466 - 509) Basilio (circa 585 - 590) Juan (John) (mentioned between 633 and 646) Servando (between 653 and 656) Geta (between 681 and 688) Pápulo (in 693) (anonymous) (? - 1154)Titular seeIn 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric under the names of Elepla (also Curiate Italian) / Eleplen(sis) (Latin adjective).