Diocese of Campeche
| Diocese of Campeche | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Mexico |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Yucatán |
| Diocesan bishop | José Francisco González González |
| founding | 1895 |
| surface | 55,858 km² |
| Parishes | 44 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Residents | 776,000 (December 31, 2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Catholics | 623.143 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| proportion of | 80.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 60 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Religious priest | 9 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,031 |
| Friars | 35 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| Religious sisters | 123 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción |
| Website | http://www.diocesisdecampeche.org.mx/Home.php |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Campeche ( lat. : Dioecesis Campecorensis , span. : Diócesis de Campeche ) is in Mexico located Roman Catholic diocese based in Campeche .
history
The diocese of Campeche was on March 24, 1895 by Pope Leo XIII. built with the Apostolic Constitution Praedecessorum nostrorum from cessions of territory of the Yucatán diocese . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Yucatán as a suffragan . Campeche is considered the starting point for the Christianization of the American mainland in the 16th century. On March 23, 1516, the first Christian worship service on the American continent was celebrated there, as a stone slab in front of the San Francisco Church commemorates today.
Bishops of Campeche
- Francisco Plancarte y Navarrette , 1895–1898, then Bishop of Cuernavaca
- Rómulo Betancourt y Torres , 1900-1901
- Francisco de Paula Mendoza y Herrera , 1904–1909, then Archbishop of Durango
- Jaime Anesagasti y Llamas , 1909-1910
- Vicente Castellanos y Núñez , 1912–1921, then Bishop of Tulancingo
- Francisco María González y Arias , 1922–1931, then Bishop of Cuernavaca
- Luis Guízar y Barragán , 1931–1938, then Coadjutor Bishop of Saltillo
- Alberto Mendoza y Bedolla , 1939-1967
- José de Jesús García Ayala , 1967–1982
- Héctor González Martínez , 1982–1988, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera
- Carlos Suárez Cázares , 1988–1994, then Bishop of Zamora
- José Luis Amezcua Melgoza , 1995–2005, then Bishop of Colima
- Ramón Castro Castro , 2006-2013
- José Francisco González González , since 2013
See also
Web links
San Francisco Catholic Church in Campeche
Inner courtyard in the Convent of the Salvatorian Order in Campeche
Monument on Campeche beach to commemorate the beginning of the Christianization of Latin America
