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The Catholic Church in Mexico comprises eighteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces in turn comprise 18 archdioceses , 69 dioceses , and 5 territorial prelatures and each headed by a bishop (of some kind).
The Archdiocese of Mexico (Latin: Archidioecesis Mexicanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church that is situated in Mexico City, Mexico. It was erected as a diocese on 2 September 1530 and elevated to an archdiocese on 12 February 1546.
Pages in category "Roman Catholic dioceses in Mexico" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The diocese was erected on 13 July 1548 on territory split off from then Diocese of Michoacán, elevated to Archdiocese on 26 January 1863, [2] [3] and is the Metropolitan see of the suffragan sees of Aguascalientes, Autlán, Ciudad Guzmán, Colima, Jesús Maria del Nayar (a Territorial Prelature), San Juan de los Lagos and Tepic.
La conversion des Indiens (The conversion of the Indians). Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez, 1894.. The history of the Catholic Church in Mexico can be divided into distinct periods, the basic division being between colonial Mexico, known as New Spain and the national period, from Mexican independence in 1821 until the current era.
The first Chaplain Father Sleiman Khoury, from the Missionary Society of St. Paul (SMSP), a Melkite religious community, who remained at the request of his relatives in Mexico, and was granted the title of Archimandrite later. He was the first pastor of a parish for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Mexico.
It was erected on 28 September 2019 with its territory having been carved from the Archdiocese of Mexico. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mexico and covers 59 parishes with 850,000 Catholics. [2]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Colima (Latin: Dioecesis Colimensis) (erected 11 December 1881) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.. On Monday, November 11, 2013, Pope Francis named Bishop Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez, then Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orizaba (based in Orizaba, Mexico) as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Colima, replacing the ...