As per 2015, it pastorally served 261,853 Catholics (95.9% of 273,172 total) on 10,354km2 in 200 parishes with 177 priests (160 diocesan, 17 religious), 360 lay religious (31 brothers, 329 sisters) and 2 seminarians.
Established in 1189 as Diocese of Plasencia / Dioecesis Placentina in Hispania (Latin)
From 1312 to 1326 the bishop Sancho Blázquez Dávila imported the ceremonial and the bureaucratic-administrative model of the royal court into his episcopal household.[3]
Pedro Fernández (1269–1271), previously Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1241–1265)
Pedro El Maestro (1272–1284)
Juan Alfonso (1285–1290)
Diego (1290–1295)
Domingo (1295–1326)
Juan (1329.08.01 – 1330.10.26)
Jimeno (1330.10.26 – 1332)
Benito (1332–1343)
Sancho (1344.05.12 – 1355.05.12)
Nicolás (1356.05.16 – 1362)
Juan Guerra (1364.07.07 – 1372)
Pedro de Manso (1372.09.03 – 1373)
Martín (1373 – 1375.10.05)
Pedro Martínez (1375.10.05 – death 1401.10.18)
Vicente Arias Balboa (1403.07.30 – death 1414.07.29)
Gonzalo de Stuñiga o Zúñiga (1415.12.18 – 1422), next Bishop of Jaén (Spain) (1422 – death 1456)
Diego Badán, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1422.10.02 – death 1423), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1409.09.11 – 1415.12.18), Bishop of Cartagena (Spain) (1415.12.18 – 1422.10.02)
Gonzalo de Santa María (1423.07.02 – 1446), previously Bishop of Gerona (Spain) (1419 – 1419), Bishop of Astorga (Spain) (1419 – 1423.07.02); later Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain) (1446 – death 1448.12.12)
Francisco Tello Sandoval (13 June 1578 – death 8 July 1580), previously Bishop of Osma (Spain) (1567.03.03 – 1578.06.13)
Andrés de Noronha (11 Sep 1581 – death 3 August 1586), previously Bishop of Portalegre (Portugal) (1560.04.05 – 1581.09.11)
Juan Ochoa Salazar (7 August 1587 – death 9 March 1594,) previously Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada (Spain) (1577.09.11 – 1587.08.07)
Pedro González Acevedo (5 Dec 1594 – death 20 Nov 1609), previously Bishop of Orense (Spain) (1587.07.27 – 1594.12.05)
Enrique Enríquez de Almansa Manrique, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (21 June 1610 – death 22 Jan 1622), previously Bishop of Osma (Spain) (1602.11.15 – 1610.06.21)
Sancho Dávila Toledo (11 July 1622 – death 6 Dec 1626), previously Bishop of Cartagena (Spain) (1591.04.26 – 1600.01.10), Bishop of Jaén (Spain) (1600.01.10 – 1615.07.20), Bishop of Sigüenza (Spain) (1615.07.20 – 1622.07.11)
Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Ribera (27 Jan 1627 – retired 1630) died 1634; previously Bishop of Salamanca (Spain) (1616.09.05 – 1621.03.17), Bishop of Pamplona (Spain) (1621.03.17 – 1622.11.14), Bishop of Málaga (Spain) (1622.11.14 – 1627.01.27)
Cristóbal de Lobera y Torres (2 Dec 1630 – death 21 Oct 1632), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1615.11.06 – 1618.07.09), Bishop of Osma (Spain) (1618.07.09 – 1623.03.06), Bishop of Pamplona (Spain) (1623.03.06 – 1625.02.19), Bishop of Córdoba (Spain) (1625.02.19 – 1630.12.02)
Plácido Pacheco de Haro, Order of Saint Benedict (O.S.B.) (18 July 1633 – death 5 Oct 1639), previously Bishop of Cádiz (Spain) (1623.03.20 – 1633.07.18)
Diego Arce Reinoso (8 Oct 1640 – retired 3 April 1652), died 1665; previously Bishop of Tui (Spain) (1635.10.01 – 1638.03.22), Bishop of Ávila (Spain) (1638.03.22 – 1640.10.08)
Diego Riquelme y Quirós (23 Feb 1665 – death 13 May 1668), previously Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (Spain) (1658 – 1661), Bishop of Oviedo (Spain) (1661 – 1665.02.23)
Diego Sarmiento Valladares (17 Sep 1668 –? resigned 26 April 1677), previously Bishop of Oviedo (Spain) (1668.01.30 – 1668.09.17)
Bartolomé de Ocampo y Mata (1 June 1699 – death 22 Sep 1703), previously Bishop of Segovia (Spain) (1694 – 1699.06.01)
José Gregorio de Rojas y Velázquez (7 April 1704 – death 24 Nov 1709), previously Bishop of León (Spain) (1694 – 1704.04.07)
Bartolomé Cernuda Rico y Piñeros (22 May 1713 – death April 1715)
Francisco Eustaquio Perea Porras (23 Sep 1715 – 3 July 1720), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Granada (Spain) (1720.07.03 – death 1723.09)
Juan Montalbán Gómez, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (16 Sep 1720 – death 12 Nov 1720), previously Bishop of Guadix (Spain) (1706.09.13 – 1720.09.16)
Francisco Laso de la Vega Córdova, O.P. (28 May 1721 – death 14 July 1738) previously Bishop of Ceuta (Spain) (1716.10.05 – 1721.05.28)
Pedro Manuel Dávila y Cárdenas (19 Dec 1738 – death 25 June 1742), previously Bishop of Islas Canarias (Canaries, insular Spain) (1731.08.06 – 1738.12.19)
Plácido Bailés (Baylés) y Padilla, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (26 Nov 1742 – death 22 Jan 1747), previously Bishop of Huesca (Spain) (1738.03.03 – 1742.11.26)
Francisco Antonio Bustamante Jiménez (31 July 1747 – death 27 July 1749)
José Ignacio Rodríguez Cornejo (23 Feb 1750 – death Dec 1755)
Pedro Gómez de la Torre (24 May 1756 – death 3 August 1759)
Juan Francisco Manrique Lara (21 April 1760 – death 18 Jan 1765)
Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón (5 June 1765 – 14 April 1766), next Metropolitan Archbishop of México )
José González Laso Santos de San Pedro (21 July 1766 – death 1803)
Lorenzo Igual de Soria (16 May 1803 – death 14 Sep 1814)
Antonio Carrillo Mayoral (10 July 1815 – death 19 March 1826)
Cipriano Sánchez Varela (3 July 1826 – death 13 March 1848)
Martino Piña y Giménez (5 Sep 1851 – death 25 Nov 1851)
José Ávila Lamas (27 Sep 1852 – 25 Sep 1857), next Bishop of Orense)
Bernardo Conde y Corral, Norbertines (O. Praem.) (21 Dec 1857 – 16 March 1863), next Bishop of Zamora)
Gregoria María López y Zaragoza (21 Dec 1863 – death 3 May 1869)
Pedro Casas y Souto (23 Sep 1875 – death 26 July 1906)
Francisco Jarrín y Moro (6 Dec 1906 – death 3 Nov 1912)
Manuel Torres y Torres (18 July 1913 – death 4 July 1914)
Ángel Regueras y López (26 May 1915 – 26 Oct 1923), next Bishop of Salamanca)
Justo Rivas Fernández (18 Dec 1924 – death 16 July 1930)
Feliciano Rocha Pizarro (28 Jan 1935 – death 16 August 1945)
Juan Pedro Zarranz y Pueyo (18 Feb 1946 – death 14 Nov 1973)