Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Granada

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The Archdiocese of Granada is a Latin ecclesiastical province of the Catholic Church in Spain. Originally the Diocese of Elvira from the 3rd century through the 10th, it was re-founded in 1437 as the diocese of Granada and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Alexander VI on 10 December 1492. Its suffragan sees are Almería, Cartagena, Guadix, Jaén and Málaga. The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Granada also houses the Basilicas of San Juan de Dios and Nuestra Señora de las Angustias. The current archbishop of Granada is Francisco Martínez Fernández, appointed by Pope John Paul II on 15 March 2003.

Ordinaries

Bishops of Elvira

The following list is based on the Nomina defunctorum episcoporum Spalensis sedis uel Toletane atque Eliberritane sedis ("Names of the deceased bishops of the see of Seville and of the sees of Toledo and Elvira"), a necrology of bishops of those sees found in the Codex Emilianense, which was compiled between 962 and 994.

Bishops of Granada

Archbishops of Granada

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