Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera

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Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera

Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis-Materiensis

Diócesis de Cuauhtémoc-Madera
Catedral de San Antonio, en Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua.jpg
Location
Country Mexico
Ecclesiastical provinceProvince of Chihuahua
MetropolitanCiudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua
Statistics
Area14,447 sq mi (37,420 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)
(as of 2006)
383,374
332,804 (86.8%)
Parishes26
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
RiteRoman Rite
Established25 April 1966 (55 years ago)
Cathedral
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopVacant
Metropolitan ArchbishopConstancio Miranda Weckmann
Map
Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtemoc-Madera in Mexico.jpg

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
  • (1988.07.19 – 1994.10.07), later Bishop of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (1994.10.07 – 2014.12.20)
Suffragan Bishops of Cuauhtémoc–Madera

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop[]

  • , appointed Bishop of Atlacomulco, México in 1998

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Alba, Maribel (2021-09-08). "Fallece Juan Guillermo López, Obispo de Cuauhtémoc". . Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2021-10-03.

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