Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (), also called Diocese of Tenerife or Diocese Nivariense, is a diocese located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Islands in the Ecclesiastical province of Sevilla in Spain. The diocese includes the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The bishop of this diocese is Bernardo Álvarez Afonso. The arrival of Christianity to the western islands of the Canaries took place (as in the
La Palma tsunami, so it would only be a megatsunami locally in the mid Atlantic. An underwater eruption that began in September 2011 south of the island of El Hierro, gave rise to more speculation about the possibility of a megatsunami. As each island in the archipelago is an independent edifice often several tens of kilometres away from the adjacent island it is geologically impossible that volcanic activity on one island will influence the other islands. El Hierro lies about 100 km south of La Palma, over 100 km south-west of Tenerife. La Gomera – extinct since about 4 million year BP,