Diocese of Vic

Diocese of Vic Dioecesis Vicensis Diócesis de Vic Spanish Diòcesi de Vic Catalan
Vic Cathedral
Location
Country	Spain
Ecclesiastical province	Tarragona
Metropolitan	Tarragona
Statistics
Area	3,964 km2 (1,531 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 386,000 408,000 (94.6%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	5th Century
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of St Peter in Vic
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Romà Casanova Casanova
Metropolitan Archbishop	Jaume Pujol Balcells
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic (Latin: diocoesis Vicen(sis)) is a diocese with its seat in the city of Vic in the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Spain. Its cathedral is a basilica dedicated to Saint Peter.

A diocese was first established at Vic in the fifth century. After the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711, the diocese was abandoned.

The diocese was re-established in 886, shortly after the official re-settlement of the Plain of Vic had begun in 878. According to one theory, the new diocese was a product of the initiative of the Sunyer II, count of Empúries, and Teuter, bishop of Girona, to spread their influence westward at the expense of Count Wifred I of Osona. It is more likely that the see was re-founded with the support of Wifred, who petitioned the archdiocese of Narbonne to accept it as a suffragan. Although Vic was the traditional capital of the County of Osona, the county and the bishopric were not coterminous. The monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, one of the most important in the diocese, lay within the County of Besalú. So long as the counts of Osona were also counts of Barcelona, they appointed viscounts to rule in Osona, and these usually resided at the castle of Cardona in the diocese of Urgell. As a result, the bishops of Vic came to control the city itself, blending public, private and ecclesiastical power there.

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