Territorial prelature El Salto
| Territorial prelature El Salto | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Mexico |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Durango |
| prelate | Juan María Huerta Muro OFM |
| Emeritus prelate | Manuel Mireles Vaquera |
| surface | 36,000 km² |
| Parishes | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 408,262 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 347,715 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 85.2% |
| Diocesan priest | 27 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 12,878 |
| Friars | 2 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 16 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Santa María de Guadalupe |
The territorial prelate El Salto ( lat. : Praelatura Territorialis Saltensis in Mexico , span. : Prelatura de El Salto ) is in Mexico located Roman Catholic territorial prelate based in El Salto .
history
The territorial prelature El Salto was on June 10, 1968 by Pope Paul VI. established with the Apostolic Constitution Non habentibus from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Durango and the Diocese of Mazatlán . The territorial prelature was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Durango as a suffragan .
Prelates of El Salto
- Francisco Medina Ramírez OCD , 1973–1988
- Manuel Mireles Vaquera , 1988-2005
- Ruy Rendón Leal , 2005–2011, then Bishop of Matamoros
- Juan María Huerta Muro OFM , since 2012
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Non habentibus , AAS 61 (1969), n.1, p. 14f.