Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol

Historia

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol (also known as "Dioecesis Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis") is the northernmost of the four Latin rite suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, which covers Galicia in North-western Spain. The area had previously been home to Britonia, a settlement founded by expatriate Britons in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. Britonia was represented by the diocese referred to as Britonensis ecclesia (Britton church) in sources from the 6th and 7th centuries.The bishop who has his (main) Cathedral (from Latin "cathedra" meaning episcopal seat), a Minor Basilica and World Heritage Site: Catedral Basílica de la Virgen de la Asunción, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, in Mondoñedo, administrative Province of Lugo, and a co-cathedral Concatedral de San Julián, in Ferrol, administrative Province of A Coruña, as well as a former Cathedral, also Minor Basilica: Basilica de San Martín de Mondoñedo, in Foz, Lugo province.