Catedral de San Agustín, Florida
Foto/Gaspar, El Lugareño
Foto/Gaspar, El Lugareño
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(St Augustine Catholic) During the near 200-year First Spanish Period (1565-1763) the Catholics of East and West Florida did not have the consolation of a resident bishop with ordinary (that is, independent episcopal) power. The first two prelates to visit Florida, Bishop Altamirano in 1606 and Bishop Calderón in 1674-75, held ordinary power over the church in Florida since the peninsula and panhandle came under their jurisdictions as bishops of Santiago de Cuba, but they were not resident here.
Early in 1709, Dionisio Resino, the oldest priest in Cuba, was consecrated bishop in Yucatán and sent as an auxiliary bishop to be resident in St. Augustine, where he arrived on June 23 in the same year (after escaping 11 English warships that stood across his passage). Under the arrangement Florida would not itself be a diocese. Both the province and the auxiliary would remain subordinate to the see of Santiago de Cuba. (read full article)
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