Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic
Diocese of Tepic Dioecesis Tepicensis Diócesis de Tepic | |
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![]() Catedral de la Purísima Concepción | |
Location | |
Country | Mexico |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Guadalajara |
Metropolitan | Guadalajara |
Statistics | |
Area | 8,797 sq mi (22,780 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 1,139,584 1,107,800 (97.2%) |
Parishes | 78 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 23 June 1891 (132 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Luis Artemio Flores Calzada |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Francisco Robles Ortega |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic (Latin: Dioecesis Tepicensis)) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guadalajara in western Mexico.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de la Purísima Concepción, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Tepic, the capital of Nayarit state. It also has a Minor Basilica: Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Talpa, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in Talpa de Allende, Jalisco.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,168,480 Catholics (88.1% of 1,325,985 total) on 22,777 km² in 92 parishes and 36 missions with 214 priests (207 diocesan, 7 religious), 205 lay religious (11 brothers, 194 sisters) and 54 seminarians.
History
It was erected 23 June 1891 as Diocese of Tepic / Tepicen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.
Bishops
(all Roman Rite)
Episcopal ordinaries
- Suffragan Bishops of Tepic
- Ignacio Díaz y Macedo (1893.01.19 – death 1905.06.14)
- Andrés Segura y Domínguez (1906.08.06 – death 1918.08.13)
- Manuel Azpeitia Palomar (1919.08.10 – death 1935.03.01)
- Anastasio Hurtado y Robles (1935.12.21 – retired 1970.07.13), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Cissa (1970.07.13 – resigned 1970.12.31); died 1972
- Auxiliary Bishop: José Manuel Piña Torres (1958.05.12 – retired 1970.05.16), Titular Bishop of Milevum (1958.05.12 – death 1997.07.07)
- Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera (1971.05.14 – 1980.05.08), next Bishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico) (1980.05.08 – 1983.11.08), Metropolitan Archbishop of Monterrey (Mexico) (1983.11.08 – 2003.01.25), President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (1988 – 1994), Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Victoria (Mexico) (1994.11.03 – retired 1995.12), created Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario (1994.11.26 – death 2008.03.22)
- Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota (1981.01.12 – retired 2008.02.21), died 2017
- Ricardo Watty Urquidi (2008.02.21 – death 2011.11.01), Spiritans (M.Sp.S.), previously Titular Bishop of Macomades (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06) as Auxiliary Bishop of México (City) (Mexico) (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06), Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) (1989.11.06 – 2008.02.21)
- Luis Artemio Flores Calzada (30 March 2012 – ...), previously Bishop of Valle de Chalco (Mexico) (2003.07.08 – 2012.03.30).
Auxiliary bishop
- José Manuel Piña Torres (1958-1970)
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Mario Espinosa Contreras, appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla in 1996
- Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2009
See also
References
Sources and external links
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- GCatholic, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections
- Tehuantepec - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- "Diocese of Tepic". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-05.
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