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Many parishes of what is now called la Franja had been historically part of the Diocese of Lleida, along with other, non-Catalan-speaking Aragonese towns.

In 1995, Catholic church authorities, through the Papal Nuncio to Spain, informed the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference – Archbishop of Saragossa, Elías Yanes – of the decision of the Holy See to align the diocesan boundaries with the political and historical ones.