Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayuna
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayuna was a short-lived (1504–1511) Antillian Catholic bishopric with its seat at Lares de Guahaba.
History
It was established on 15 November 1504 as the Diocese of Bayuna, one of the first bishoprics in the New World, on Spanish-colonial territory formally split off canonically from the Archdiocese of Sevilla (Andalusia, Spain), like the Archdiocese of Hyaguata which became its Metropolitan, both in the present Dominican Republic, on Hispaniola (Greater Antilles).
It was suppressed on 8 August 1511, having had a single incumbent, who was transferred to the newly erected then Diocese of Santo Domingo (later Metropolitan).
Episcopal Ordinary
- Suffragan Bishop of Bayuna
- Bishop-elect Francisco Garcia de Padilla, (Spaniard?) Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (15 November 1504 – 13 August 1511), afterwards the first Bishop of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) (13 August 1511 – his death in 1515).[1]
See also
Sources and external links
- ^ Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 187 note 2. (in Latin)