The Association of Property and Mercantile Registrars of Spain has sent, this week, to the Congress of Deputies the list of unregistered properties of the Catholic Church between 1998 and 2015, a report that comes after being requested in 2017 by the lower house.
The Catholic Church was able to unregister, at the time, these properties thanks to a Francoist law and the subsequent reform of the Government of José María Aznar, with which the Diocese claimed that it was the owner of a certain asset to put it in its name without any certification. A practice that ended with the reform of the Mortgage Law in 2015.
The 532 assets unregistered by the church in the Canary Islands / Cadena SER
The document states that, Canary Islands, is in the position number 12 of the Spanish communities with more properties in the name of the Church: 532 goods. By provinces, Las Palmas has 276 properties and Santa Cruz de Tenerife 256. However, the community with the most registrations is Castilla y León (10,243), followed by Galicia (7,131) and Catalonia (4,192).
According to the report of the Association of Property and Mercantile Registrars of Spain, in the Canary Islands there are 125 properties with a different title of ecclesiastical certification, that is, goods that are not in the name of the church but are linked: hermitages, temples, rustic land, lots, garages or duplexes.
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