Apatzingán diocese
| Apatzingán diocese | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Mexico |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Morelia |
| Diocesan bishop | Cristóbal Ascencio García |
| founding | 1962 |
| surface | 13,102 km² |
| Parishes | 29 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 424,845 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 391,830 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 92.2% |
| Diocesan priest | 65 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 6,028 |
| Religious sisters | 113 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción |
| Website | www.diocesisdeapatzingan.org.mx |
The diocese Apatzingán ( lat. : Dioecesis Apatzinganiensis , span. : Diócesis de Apatzingán ) is in Mexico located Roman Catholic diocese based in Apatzingán .
history
The diocese of Apatzingán was on April 30, 1962 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quo aptius from cessions of territory from the dioceses of Colima and Tacámbaro and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Morelia as a suffragan . On 11 October 1985, the diocese Apatzingán were parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution trial Cum erected Diocese of Ciudad Lazaro Cardenas from.
Miguel Patiño Velázquez , bishop from 1981 to 2014, was one of the people who publicly campaigned against organized crime in Mexico. He made the groups La Familia Michoacana , Los Zetas , Nueva Generación and Los Caballeros Templarios responsible for the sale and trafficking of drugs, extortion, kidnapping, robbery and other extortion of all kinds, as well as murder and violence against diocesan priests. In the year before his resignation, in 2013, he documented 920 dead, 280 survivors, 42 kidnapped, 238 missing, 3000 displaced families and 1200 robbed of their land in the diocese of Apatzingán.
Bishops of Apatzingán
- Victorino Alvarez Tena , 1962–1974
- José Fernández Arteaga , 1974–1980
- Miguel Patiño Velázquez MSF , 1981-2014
- Cristóbal Ascencio García , since 2014
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Apatzingán (Spanish)
- Entry on the diocese of Apatzingán on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Quo aptius , AAS 55 (1963), n.4, pp. 211ff.
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Cum probe , AAS 77 (1985), n.12, pp. 1115ff.
- ↑ Eugenia Jiménez Cáliz: “Murió Miguel Patiño Velázquez, el obispo de las denuncias“ proféticas ””. Contextos de La Palabra, September 22, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 (Spanish).