Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

Diocese of Ciudad Obregón Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis Diócesis de Ciudad Obregón
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Hermosillo
Metropolitan	Ciudad Obregón
Statistics
Area	34,125 sq mi (88,380 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2006) 1,031,000 889,000 (86.2%)
Parishes	58
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	20 June 1959 (62 years ago)
Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop elect
Map

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis) (erected 20 June 1959). It is centered in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo. Along with the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, it yielded territory in 1966 to form the Territorial Prelature of Madera.

Bishops[]

Ordinaries[]

• (28 November 1959 – 4 March 1967)
• (15 July 1967 – 14 November 1981)
• (15 July 1982 – 17 August 1987), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
• Vicente García Bernal (30 March 1988 – 8 November 2005)
• (8 November 2005 – 18 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Texcoco
• (1 October 2009 – 15 September 2020)
• (15 September 2020 — present)^[1]

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop[]

• , appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California in 2007

Episcopal See[]

• Ciudad Obregón, Sonora

References[]

External links[]

• "Diocese of Ciudad Obregón". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-05.

Coordinates: 27°29′56″N 109°55′48″W / 27.4988°N 109.9301°W / 27.4988; -109.9301

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