Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayuna

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayuna was a short-lived (1504–1511) Antillian Catholic bishopric with see at Lares de Guahaba.

History

It was established on 1504.11.15 as 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

See also

  1. Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 187 note 2. (in Latin)


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