page_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Plasencia
section_title: Episcopal ordinaries
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Plasencia / Episcopal ordinaries
caption_attribution_description: Español: Sepulcro del Obispo Pedro Ponce de León en la Catedral de Plasencia (provincia de Cáceres)
context_page_description: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Plasencia is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz, in Extremadura, western Spain.
  Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nueva Gótica de Santa María, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in the city of Plasencia, which also has the Romanesque former cathedral Catedral Vieja Románica de San Pablo, dedicated to St. Paul.
context_section_description: (all Roman Rite) 
  Suffragan Bishops of Plasencia
  Bricio (1190–1212)
  Domingo (1212–1232)
  Adán (1234–1262)
  Simón (1263–1268)
  Pedro Fernández (1269–1271), previously Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1241–1265)
  Pedro El Maestro (1272–1284)
  Juan Alfonso (1285–1290)
  Diego (1290–1295)
  Domingo (1295–1326)
  Juan (1329.08.01 – 1330.10.26)
  Jimeno (1330.10.26 – 1332)
  Benito (1332–1343)
  Sancho (1344.05.12 – 1355.05.12)
  Nicolás (1356.05.16 – 1362)
  Juan Guerra (1364.07.07 – 1372)
  Pedro de Manso (1372.09.03 – 1373)
  Martín (1373 – 1375.10.05)
  Pedro Martínez (1375.10.05 – death 1401.10.18)
  Vicente Arias Balboa (1403.07.30 – death 1414.07.29)
  Gonzalo de Stuñiga o Zúñiga (1415.12.18 – 1422), next Bishop of Jaén (Spain) (1422 – death 1456)
  Diego Badán, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1422.10.02 – death 1423), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1409.09.11 – 1415.12.18), Bishop of Cartagena (Spain) (1415.12.18 – 1422.10.02)
  Gonzalo de Santa María (1423.07.02 – 1446), previously Bishop of Gerona (Spain) (1419 – 1419), Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1419 – 1423.07.02); later Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain) (1446 – death 1448.12.12)
  Juan Carvajal (10 August 1446 – death 6 Dec 1469) previously Bishop of Coria (Spain) (1443.10.11 – 1446.08.10 not possessed); created Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino (1446.12.16 – 1446.12.30?), transferred Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lucia in Septisolio (1446.12.30? – 1461.10.26), promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1461.10.26 – 1469.12.06), also still Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lucia in Septisolio in commendam (1461.10.26 – 1469.12.06), Apostolic Administrator of Zamora (Spain) (1467.10.30 – 1468), Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals (1469.01.11 – 1469.12.06)
  Rodrigo de Ávila (29 Jan 1470 – Feb 1492 Died)
  Gutierre Álvarez de Toledo  (27 June 1496 – 28 August 1506) ?? Appointed Archbishop of Sevilla)
  Auxiliary bishop Miguel Alviter, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (4 April 1502 – ? death ?), Titular Bishop of Baia (1502.04.04 – ?)
  Gómez de Toledo Solís (22 Dec 1508 – death 1521)
  Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande (14 Jan 1521 – death 16 Dec 1523), also Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (1513.06.27 – 1523.02.20), (transferred) Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Ostia–Velletri (1521.07.24 – 1523.12.16), Cardinal Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1521.07.24 – 1523.12.16), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Foligno (Italy) (1522.09.26 – 1523.02.04); previously Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1488.08.27 – 1489.01.23), Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1489.01.23 – 1493.03.27), Bishop of Cartagena (Spain) (1493.03.27 – 1495.02.20), created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro (1493.09.23 – 1495.02.02), transferred Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme (1495.02.02 – 1507.08.03), Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain) (1495.02.20 – 1511.10.24), Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals (1498.01 – 1499.01.09), Apostolic Administrator of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Avellino (Italy) (1503.07.28 – 1505), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Frigento (1503.07.28 – 1505), Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (1503.12.30 – 1511.10.24 – first time), promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano (1507.08.03 – 1507.09.17), transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Frascati (1507.09.17 – 1508.09.22), Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Rossano (Italy) (1508.01.10 – 1519.06.20), transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Palestrina (1508.09.22 – 1509.03.28), Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina (1509.03.28 – 1511.10.24), Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain) (1513.06.27 – 1519)
   
  Gutierre Vargas de Carvajal  (25 May 1524 – death 27 April 1559)
  Auxiliary bishop Sancho Díaz de Trujillo (9 Sep 1539 – 1546), Titular Bishop of Marocco (1539.09.09 – ?)
  Pedro Ponce de Léon (26 Jan 1560 – death 17 Jan 1573), previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain) (1550.06.27 – 1560.01.26)
  Martín de Córdoba Mendoza, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (4 June 1574 – 13 June 1578), next Bishop of Córdoba (1578.06.13 – death 1581.06.05); previously Bishop of Tortosa (Spain) (1560.07.17 – 1574.06.04)
  Francisco Tello Sandoval 
caption: Tomb of Bishop
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