Itinerancia de la sede episcopal en la diócesis de Mondoñedo y sus catedrales

Resumen

Diocesan capitals sometimes changed location. In Galicia the one in Mondoñedo is the one with the greatest roaming. He started his career in Bretoña -A Pastoriza. Lugo- in the 6th century and its bishops resided here until the Muslim invasion of the 8th. King Ordoño I reestablished it at the end of the 9th century in San Martín de Mondoñedo -Foz. Lugo- where it remained until the beginning of XII. Its basilica, one of the first Romanesque works in Galicia, was built on the site of a pre-Romanesque church, from which some elements were reused. In its construction, Bishop Gonzalo stood out, considered a saint by the locals, whose crozier and ring are preserved. In San Martín its historiated capitals, antipendium and Romanesque and later paintings of the south arm of the transept stand out. To avoid coastal attacks, the headquarters moved to Valibria, although at the end of the 12th century it was established in Ribadeo and from the beginning of the 13th century again in Valibria, present-day Mondoñedo. Then the cathedral was built by teachers trained in the Cistercian Santa María de Meira. From the end of the 16th to the middle of the 18th the medieval factory was renovated. In 1959, Pope John XXIII decided that the Mindonian headquarters should also be Ferrolensis, with headquarters in Mondoñedo and Ferrol and elevated the parish of San Julián to a co-cathedra