Villafranca Montes de Oca

Villafranca Montes de Oca is a municipality, former medieval bishopric and present Latin titular see located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, northern Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 164 inhabitants.Ecclesiastical history, with incumbents It was originally known as Oca and was the seat of a bishopric, precursor of the present the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos, established no later then 589, when its bishop Asterio attended the Third Council of Toledo, but vaguer notitions may trace it back as early as the 3rd century AD. Monastic life flourished there during the Visigothic Catholic Kingdom of Toledo . However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at Amaya, Valpuesta, Muñó, Sasamón, Oña, Gamonal, only to have their 'see' formally suppressed to restore definitively the Diocese of Burgos in 1075, confirmed by Pope Urban II en 1095.