WELCOME! CORDOBA Cordoba (Córdoba, Cordova) is a Christian diocese in Spain, formerly suffragan of Toledo, since 1851 of Seville. The Gospel, it is believed, was preached there in the Apostolic period, it being very probable that Apostles Saint James the Greater and Saint Paul, while preaching in various cities of Spain may have sent thither some of their disciples; Cordova (Colonia Patricia) was then the chief city of Baetica, and the centre of Andalusian life. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Cordoba The name of the apostolic founder the of the See of Cordova is unknown, as the oldest extant documents do not antedate the third century. The conditions of the Christian religion in this early period were quite similar to those which obtained elsewhere in the Roman Empire: persecution, suspicion, denunciation, enforced profession of idolatry, etc. Many illustrious martyrs, Faustus, Januarius, and others, suffered at Cordova. The earliest known bishop (though not the founder of th...