Diocese of Tlaxcala

Dioecesis Tlaxcalensis

Diócesis de Tlaxcala
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Location
CountryMexico
Ecclesiastical provincePuebla de los Ángeles
Statistics
Area1,568 sq mi (4,060 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2010)
1,077,000
1,055,000 (98%)
Parishes76
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established23 May 1959 (64 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopFrancisco Moreno Barrón
Metropolitan ArchbishopVictor Sánchez Espinosa
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The Diocese of Tlaxcala (Latin: Dioecesis Tlaxcalensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles,[1] which was itself officially named the "Diocese of Tlaxcala" until 1903 (founded in 1519 and so named in 1525, the oldest diocese in Mexico).[2] The present Diocese of Tlaxcala was erected on 23 May 1959 from territory of that archdiocese and the adjacent Archdiocese of Mexico.[1] Its cathedra is found within the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in the episcopal see of Tlaxcala.

Bishops

Ordinaries

  • Luis Munive Escobar (1959–2001)
  • Jacinto Guerrero Torres (2001–2006)
  • Francisco Moreno Barrón (2008–2016)
  • Julio César Salcedo Aquino, M.J. (2017–)

Coadjutor bishop

  • Jacinto Guerrero Torres (1991-2001)

References

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  1. 1 2 "Diocese of Tlaxcala". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  2. ↑ Crivelli, Camillus (1913). "Tlaxcala" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.



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