Bishop of Pamplona
- Pamplona, 1082. Sancho V Ramirez (1043-1094), king of Pamplona, decided to change the bishop of the city. Until then his brother Gartzia had held the high office and Sancho V.ak, or Sancho I of Aragon, who was also king there, delegated the bishopric to another relative. Nothing extraordinary was there until then, when kings had the power to appoint bishops and nepotism, of course, was not new. But the king, contrary to the canonical law, appointed a woman as bishop of Pamplona: Sister Antsa. As recorded in a diploma of that year: in episcopal headquarters Iruniensis cometer domna Sancia in conmendatione.
Antsa Ramirez was born in 1045 and died in 1097. At the age of 18, he married Ermengol II, Count of Urgele, thanks to the family's alliance strategies. Her husband died two years later, fighting King Al-Muqtadir from Zaragoza's taifa. A 20-year-old widow takes the title of her husband and takes over the female monastery of Santa Cruz de la Serós de Huesca. He approached the court of his brother Sancho and, starting in 1071, his name appears in the official documentation along with his brother's; later, in the documents of his nephew Pedro I of Aragon, they would continue to cite Antsa. It is also a sign of the great shadow of the countess that the king has entrusted to him the direction of several monasteries and related territories: La Santa Cruz de Serós, from 1074, San Pedro de Siresa from 1082, Atares from 1083...
In 1082, Sancho V.ak was appointed bishop of Pamplona, probably due to discrepancies with his brother Gartzia. Bishop Gartzia was a supporter of the Mozarabic ritual practiced in Pamplona at that time. However, Sancho, like his sister, was a passionate protector of the Roman rite since his visit to the Pope in 1068. Thus, he put Antsa in the position to replace the Mozarabic ritual. That is, loyalty to the Pope gained more weight at the time than gender.
The following year, in 1083, Antsa Ramirez left the bishopric for unknown reasons. But he kept the responsibility of the male monastery of San Pedro de Siresa until 1095, ignoring the canonical law.
In January 2015, Elizabeth was appointed bishop of the Anglican church of Jane Holden. Many consider it the first female bishop in history, much closer almost a thousand years ago, forgetting that Antsa had the same title in the Catholic Church.
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