Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera

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Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera
Basic data
Country Mexico
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Chihuahua
Diocesan bishop Juan Guillermo López Soto
Vicar General Camilo Daniel Pérez
Jesús José Miranda García
founding 1966
surface 37,405 km²
Parishes 26 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Residents 391.080 (December 31, 2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics 339,493 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
proportion of 86.8%
Diocesan priest 31 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 9 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 8,487
Friars 10 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 65 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral de San Antonio
Website http://www.cuauhtemoc-madera.diocesis.ws/

The diocese Cuauhtemoc-Madera ( lat. : Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis-Materiensis , span. : Diócesis de Cuauhtemoc-Madera ) is in Mexico located Roman Catholic diocese based in Cuauhtémoc .

history

The diocese Cuauhtémoc-Madera was on April 25, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. Established with the Apostolic Constitution In Christi similitudinem from assignments of territory by the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Dioceses of Ciudad Juárez and Ciudad Obregón as the Territorial Prelature Madera . On November 17, 1995, the territorial prelature Madera was raised to a diocese by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Cum praelatura and renamed the diocese Cuauhtémoc-Madera .

The Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Chihuahua as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Prelates of Madera

Bishops of Cuauhtémoc-Madera

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. In Christi similitudinem , AAS 58 (1966), n.9, p. 623f.
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Cum praelatura , AAS 88 (1996), n.2, p. 142ff.