Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas Dioecesis Sancti Christophori de las Casas Diócesis de San Cristóbal de Las Casas | |
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 Catedral de San Cristóbal | |
| Location | |
| Country | Mexico |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province of Tuxtla |
| Metropolitan | San Cristóbal de Las Casas |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,740 sq mi (22,600 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2010) 1,691,000 1,346,000 (79.6%) |
| Parishes | 52 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 19 March 1539 (482 years ago) |
| Cathedral | |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | |
| Auxiliary Bishops | |
| Bishops emeritus | Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| ualcor.wix.com/dscl | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Christophori de las Casas) (erected 19 March 1539 as the Diocese of Chiapas,[1] renamed 27 October 1964) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Tuxtla. Its see is in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas.[2][3] In November 2017 was appointed new bishop on the resignation of Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel.[4]
Bishops[]
Ordinaries[]
- Diocese of Chiapas
Erected: 19 March 1539
- Juan de Urteaga, O.S.H. (1539–1540 died)[5]
- Juan de Arteaga y Avendaño (1540–1540, died)[5]
- Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (1543–1550, resigned)[5]
- Tomás Casillas, O.P. (1551–1567, died)[5]
- , O.P. (1574–1588, died)[5]
- Andrés de Ubilla, O.P. (1592–1603, appointed Bishop of Michoacán)[5]
- , O.S. (1605–1607, resigned)
- Juan Pedro González de Mendoza, O.S.A. (1607–1608, appointed Bishop of Popayán)
- , O.P. (1609–1612, died)
- Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. (1613–1621, appointed Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala)
- (1621–1626, died)
- Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia (1629–1630, appointed Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala)
- Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando, O.F.M. (1633–1639, appointed Bishop of Michoacán)
- Cristóbal Pérez Lazarraga y Maneli Viana, O. Cist. (1639–1640, appointed Bishop of Cartagena)
- Domingo Ramírez de Arellano, O.S.H. (1640–1652, appointed Bishop of Yucatán)
- Mauro Diego de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, O.S.B. (1652–1666, died)
- (1670–1672, appointed Bishop of Popayán)
- (1674–1680, died)
- , O.P. (1682–1706, died)
- , O.F.M. (1708–1714, appointed Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala)
- (1714–1733, died)
- , O. de M. (1734–1752, died)
- , O. de M. (1753–1766, died)
- (1767–1768, died)
- Lucas Ramírez Galán, (1769–1769, confirmed Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada)
- , O. de M. (1769–1774, died)
- Antonio Caballero y Góngora (1775–1775, confirmed Bishop of Yucatán)
- (1775–1784, died)
- (1785–1788, resigned)
- (1788–1795, appointed Bishop of Durango)
- (1795–1800, died)
- , O.F.M. (1801–1815, died)
- (1816–1821, died)
- , O. de M. (1831–1834, died)
- (1839–1852, appointed Bishop of Tlaxcala)
- (1854–1863, appointed Bishop of Tlaxcala)
- (1863–1869, died)
- (1869–1879, died)
- , O. Carm. (1879–1882, resigned)
- (1884–1901, died)
- Francisco Orozco y Jiménez (1902–1912, appointed Archbishop of Guadalajara)
- (1913–1920, resigned)
- (1920–1941, appointed Bishop of San Luis Potosí)
- (1944–1959, appointed Bishop of Durango)
- Samuel Ruiz García (1959–1964)
- Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Name Changed: 27 October 1964
- Samuel Ruiz García (27 Oct 1964 - 13 Mar 2000, retired)
- Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (31 Mar 2000 - 3 November 2017, resigned)[6]
- (3 November 2017 – present)[4]
Coadjutor bishop[]
- José Raúl Vera López, O.P. (1995-1999); did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila
- (2014-2017); did not succeed the see; appointed Bishop of Irapuato
Auxiliary bishop[]
- (2003-2014), appointed Coadjutor here
- (2020-)
References[]
- ^ Eric Zolov (26 August 2015). Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo. ABC-CLIO. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-61069-044-7.
In 1543 Las Casas was named bishop of Chiapa (later renamed Chiapas) in southern Mexico, a see that was very large, covering much of southern Mexico, Yucatán, and parts of Guatemala.
- ^ "Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ^ "Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Resignation of bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico, and appointment of successor". Vatican Press. March 11, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 165.
|volume=has extra text (help) (in Latin) - ^ "Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- Alcedo, Antonio de (1786). Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América: es á saber: de los reynos del Perú, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo reyno de Granada (in Spanish). vol. 1. Madrid: Benito Cano. OCLC 2414115.
|volume=has extra text (help) - Cheney, David M. (1996). "Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas / Dioecesis Sancti Christophori de las Casas". The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church: Current and historical information about its bishops and dioceses. Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
Categories:
- Roman Catholic dioceses in Mexico
- 1539 establishments in New Spain
- Religious organizations established in the 1530s
- Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 16th century
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tuxtla Gutiérrez
- San Cristóbal de las Casas