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Evans David Gliwitzki is the first Spanish Catholic priest to be married. He was ordained on 21 August 2005 in La Laguna , Tenerife . The ordination was performed by Felipe Fernández García , the Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and Ávila .
The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875–1998 (1998; reprint 2012) Jedin, Hubert, and John Dolan, eds. History of the Church, Volume X: The Church in the Modern Age (1989) Lannon, Frances. Privilege, Persecution, and Prophecy. The Catholic Church in Spain 1875–1975. (Oxford UP, 1987) Payne, Stanley G. Spanish Catholicism: An Historical Overview ...
Thousands of churches were destroyed, and Catholic priests, nuns and conspicuous laymen came under violent attack by the Republican side. Of the 30,000 priests and monks in Spain in 1936, 6800 were killed, including 13% of the secular priests and 23% of the monks; 13 bishops and 283 nuns were killed. [24]
Monasteries in this area were historically founded mainly by kings, bishops and nobles.There were a number of reasons individuals might found a monastery, largely self-serving ones: to reserve a burial there, which came with perpetual prayers by the monks on behalf of the founder's soul, sheltering a princess, widow, unmarried or bastard, in the case of kings.
The Catholic branch of Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Spain, with high levels of secularization as of 2024. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution . The Pew Research Center ranked Spain as the 16th out of 34 European countries in levels of religiosity, with 21% of the population declaring they were ...
The diocesan system of the Catholic church government in Spain consists mainly of a nearly entirely Latin hierarchy of 69 territorial (arch-)dioceses: fourteen ecclesiastical provinces , each headed by a metropolitan archbishop (one of which, Toledo, uses the Mozarabic rite ), have a total of 55 suffragan dioceses .
Sargentes de la Lora, Burgos, Spain 10 July 1923 Granada, Spain 1907 [13] Ángel Sánchez-Rubio Ibáñez (1852–1910) József Martoncsik, O.Praem (religious name: Mécs László) 17 January 1895 Kostoľany nad Hornádom, Košice, Slovakia 9 November 1978 Pannonhalma, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary 1969, 1970 [14] Watson Kirkconnell (1895–1977)