Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera
Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis-Materiensis Diócesis de Cuauhtémoc-Madera | |
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Location | |
Country | Mexico |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Chihuahua |
Metropolitan | Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua |
Statistics | |
Area | 14,447 sq mi (37,420 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 383,374 332,804 (86.8%) |
Parishes | 26 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 25 April 1966 (58 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Anthony |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Jesús Omar Alemán Chávez |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Constancio Miranda Weckmann |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera (Latin: Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis–Materiensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chihuahua (northern Mexico).
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de San Antonio, dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua State.
It also has a Co-Cathedral, the former see of the territorial prelature of Madera : Cocatedral de San Pedro, dedicated to Saint Peter, in Madera, also in Chihuahua State.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 353,296 Catholics (86.8% of 406,980 total) on 37,405 km2 in 26 parishes with 42 priests (32 diocesan, 10 religious), 67 lay religious (10 brothers, 57 sisters) and 9 seminarians.
History
It was erected as the Territorial Prelature of Madera on 25 April 1966, on territories split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chihuahua, Diocese of Ciudad Juárez and Diocese of Ciudad Obregón.
Its name was changed after its new see when it was elevated to bishopric as Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera (a double name reflecting new and former see) on 17 November 1995, having gained more territory, again from the Archdiocese of Chihuahua, which became its Metropolitan.
Bishops
Ordinaries
(all Roman Rite)
- Apostolic Administrator Father Justo Goizueta Gridilla, Augustinian Recollects (O.A.R.) (1967 – 1970.01.14 see below)
- Territorial Prelates of Madera
- Justo Goizueta Gridilla, O.A.R. (see above 1970.01.14 – retired 1988.02.02), Titular Bishop of Egara (1970.01.14 – 1978.02.15); died 1991
- Renato Ascencio León (1988.07.19 – 1994.10.07), later Bishop of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (1994.10.07 – 2014.12.20)
- Suffragan Bishops of Cuauhtémoc–Madera
- Juan Guillermo López Soto (17 November 1995 - 8 September 2021), no previous prelature; died from COVID-19 on September 8, 2021[1]
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Constancio Miranda Wechmann, appointed Bishop of Atlacomulco, México in 1998
See also
References
- ^ Alba, Maribel (2021-09-08). "Fallece Juan Guillermo López, Obispo de Cuauhtémoc". El Heraldo de Chihuahua. Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
Sources, external links and references
- "Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
- GCatholic, with Google map and - satellite photo
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