Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla
Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Mexico |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Jalapa |
Diocesan bishop | Fidencio López Plaza |
founding | 1959 |
surface | 13,495 km² |
Parishes | 54 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
Residents | 1,068,607 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
Catholics | 995,607 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
proportion of | 93.2% |
Diocesan priest | 75 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
Religious priest | 2 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
Catholics per priest | 12,930 |
Permanent deacons | 34 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
Friars | 2 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
Religious sisters | 82 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Spanish |
cathedral | Catedral de San José y San Andrés |
Website | http://www.diocesisdesanandrestuxtla.org/ |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Andreae de Tuxtla , span. : Diócesis de San Andrés Tuxtla ) is in Mexico located Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Andres Tuxtla .
history
The diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla was on May 23, 1959 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quibus christiani from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Veracruz-Jalapa and the Diocese of Tehuantepec and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Veracruz-Jalapa as a suffragan .
On June 9, 1962, the Diocese of San Andres Tuxtla parts of its territory was the foundation of the Apostolic Constitution Populorum bono erected Diocese of Veracruz from. Another area assignment, carried out on 14 March 1984 to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution Plane conscii erected Diocese of Coatzacoalcos .
Bishops of San Andrés Tuxtla
- Jesús Villareal y Fierro , 1959-1965
- Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez , 1965–1968, then Bishop of Tampico
- Guillermo Ranzahuer González , 1969-2004
- José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz , 2004–2014, then Bishop of Papantla
- Fidencio López Plaza , since 2015
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Quibus christiani , AAS 51 (1959), n.17, pp. 881f.
- ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Populorum bono , AAS 55 (1963), n.12, p. 699ff.
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Plane conscii , AAS 76 (1984), n.7, pp. 632f.