Roman Catholic Diocese of Baeza

History

• Some claim that Ancient Roman Beatia became the seat of a bishop in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo between 656 and 675, when the Diocese of Castulo was transferred to Beatia, on territory previously belonging to the Diocese of Tucci.
• In 715 was established a Diocese of Baeza / Beatia / Biatien in its own right, on canonical territory split off from the suppressed Diocese of Tucci, as a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Toledo, but the Moorish rule doomed it after a few more bishops, including martyrs.
• In 900 the bishopric was suppressed, but king Alfonso VIII of Castile still mentions it in his Chronicle.
• The diocese was shortly restored from 1227, when the Baeza Cathedral, then dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, was reinstated, until 1249, when the see was transferred for good and its territory merged into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaén. The former cathedral, although a Minor World heritage site, never became a cathedral again.

  Residential Ordinaries

• Saro
• the Dominican Domingo.

  Titular see

• Albin Małysiak, Lazarists , as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Krakow and on emeritate
• Wiesław Śmigiel, Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Pelplin .
• José Cobo Cano, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Madrid