The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seville is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Seville, Spain. The Diocese of Seville was founded in the 3rd century. It was raised to the level of an archdiocese in the 4th century. The current archbishop is José Ángel Saiz Meneses. It has the suffragan dioceses of:Cádiz y Ceuta
Córdoba
Huelva
Canaries
Jerez de la Frontera
San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife
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Isidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
A statue of Isidore of Seville by José Alcoverro, 1892, outside the Biblioteca Nacional de España, in Madrid
Seville Cathedral. Sculpture by Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña
A page of Etymologiae, Carolingian manuscript (8th century), Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium