The Diocese of Vic (Latin: Dioecesis Vicensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church with its seat in the city of Vic in the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain. Its cathedral is a basilica dedicated to Saint Peter.
Vic (Catalan pronunciation: [bik]; Spanish: Vic) is the capital of the comarca of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Vic is 69 km (43 mi) from Barcelona and 60 km (37 mi) from Girona.
Vic Cathedral (Catalan: Catedral de Vic), officially the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle (Catalan: Catedral de Sant Pere Apòstol), is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Vic, Catalonia, Spain. It is the seat of the Diocese of Vic.
The Diocese of Urgell (Catalan pronunciation: [uɾˈ(d)ʒeʎ]; Latin: Diœcesis Urgellensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Catalonia (Spain) and covering the whole of the sovereign Principality of Andorra. It covers territories...
Paul Harris Freedman (born September 15, 1949) is an American historian and medievalist who serves as the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. Freedman specializes in medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, the study...
Pope Benedict VII (Latin: Benedictus VII; died 10 July 983) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 974 to his death on 10 July 983.
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,...
Old Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya Vella) was a legal concept created by Catalan jurist Pere Albert in the second quarter of the thirteenth century to refer to the territories of Catalonia containing remensa peasants from the Diocese of Girona, the...
The Diocese of Jaca (Latin: Dioecesis Iacensis) is a Latin ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northeastern Spanish province of Huesca, part of the autonomous community of Aragón. The diocese is a suffragan in the...
Josep Maria Guix Ferreres (19 December 1927 – 28 June 2009) was a Catalan bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic. Guix Ferreres was ordained on 31 May 1952 to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona. Pope Paul VI...
