Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic
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.
Diocese of Tepic Dioecesis Tepicensis Diócesis de Tepic | |
|---|---|
 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 |
| Map | |
 | |
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
References
Sources and external links
- GCatholic, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections
- Tehuantepec - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- "Diocese of Tepic". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-05.