Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas

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Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Basic data
Country Mexico
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Diocesan bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez
Auxiliary bishop Luis Manuel López Alfaro
Emeritus diocesan bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel
founding 1539
surface 36,821 km²
Parishes 55 (2017 / AP2018 )
Residents 2,385,000 (2017 / AP2018 )
Catholics 1,600,000 (2017 / AP2018 )
proportion of 67.1%
Diocesan priest 78 (2017 / AP2018 )
Religious priest 47 (2017 / AP2018 )
Catholics per priest 12,800
Permanent deacons 450 (2017 / AP2018 )
Friars 54 (2017 / AP2018 )
Religious sisters 190 (2017 / AP2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral de San Cristóbal Mártir
Website www.diocesisdesancristobal.com.mx

The Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Christophori de las Casas , span. : Diócesis de San Cristobal de Las Casas ) is one in Mexico located Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Cristobal de las Casas .

history

San Cristobal Cathedral

The diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas was founded on March 19, 1539 by Pope Paul III. Established from the cession of territory by the Antequera diocese as the diocese of Chiapas and subordinated to the archdiocese of Seville as a suffragan . On February 12, 1546, the Diocese of Chiapas was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mexico City as a suffragan. The diocese of Chiapas was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Antequera as a suffragan on June 23, 1891. On 19 June 1957, the Diocese of Chiapas were parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution Cum Nos erected Diocese of Tapachula from. Another area assignment, carried out on 27 October 1964 on the establishment of the Apostolic Constitution Cura illa erected Diocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez .

On October 27, 1964, the Diocese of Chiapas was renamed the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas . The diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas was founded on November 25, 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. subordinated to the Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez as a suffragan with the Apostolic Constitution Mexicani populi .

Ordinaries

Bishops of Chiapas

Bishops of San Cristóbal de Las Casas

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pius XII : Const. Apost. Cum Nos , AAS 50 (1958), n.5, pp. 185ff.
  2. Paul VI : Const. Apost. Cura illa , AAS 57 (1965), n.8, p. 565ff.
  3. Benedictus XVI: Const. Apost. Mexicani populi , AAS 99 (2007), n.2, p. 57ff.