GRANADA, ARCHBISHOPRIC OF: An ancient metropolitan see in Spain. The city is identical with the ancient Illiberris or Elvira, which was early the seat of a bishop and is best known for the synod held there early in the fourth century (see Elvira, Synod of). It was occupied by the Moors in the eighth century and later became the capital of a powerful kingdom. The bishops of Elvira or Granada for a long time after the Moorish conquest were merely titular. After the capture of Granada by Ferdinand the Catholic in 1492, an archiepiscopal see was founded there, with Isabella's confessor Fernando Mendoza de Talavera, then bishop of Avila, as its first incumbent. Alexander VI. gave the sees of Guadix and Almeria to the new province, and added that of Malaga in 1493. Since the Concordat of 1851 the suffragan sees have been Almeria, Cartagena or Murcia, Gaudix, Jaen, and Malaga. Notable archbishops were Caspar de Avalcz, (1529-45), who established the university and under whom John of God founded the Brothers of Charity (see Charity, Brothers of), and Pedro Guerrero (1546-76), one of the most learned theologians at the Council of Trent. The population of the diocese is about 230,000.

Bibliography: H. Flores, Espaia Saprada, vol. xii., 51 vols., Madrid, 1754 sqq.; J. Hidalgo Morales., Ilibena o Granada, Granada, 1842; P. B. Gams, Kirchengeschichte von Spanien, vols. L -ii., 3 vols., Regensburg, 1862-79; J. P. Kirsch and V. Luksch, lUushierte Geschichte der katholsscAen Kirche, pp. 306, 492 sqq., Munich, 1905; KL, v. 1013-16.

GRANBERY, JOHN COWPER: Methodist Epic

copal bishop; b. at Norfolk, Va., Dec. 5, 1829. He was educated at Randolph, Macon College, Boydton, Va. (A.B., 1848), and entered the Methodist Epis-

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copal ministry in the Virginia Conference is 1848; He was assigned to the Eastville Circuit, Va. (1848-1849), Farmville, Va. (1849-50), Lynchburg, Va. (1850-51), Loudoun Circuit, Va. (1853), Randolph, Macon College, Va. (1854-55), Charlottesville, Va. (1856), Washington (1857-58), University of Virginia (1859-60), Market Street, Petersburg, Va. (1865-68), Centenary Church, Richmond, Va. (1868-1872), and Broad Street Church, Richmond, Va. (1872-75), interrupted only by illness in 1852 and by his duties as chaplain in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from 1861 to the close of the Civil War. In 1875 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and held this position until 1882, when he was elected bishop. He was retired from active service in 1902. In theology he is an orthodox member of his denomination and is an Evangelical Arminian. He has written A Bible Dictionary for Sunday Schools and Families (Nashville, Tenn., 1885); Twelve Sermons (1896); and Experience the Crowning Evidence of Christianity (1900).