Diocese of Ciudad Victoria Dioecesis Civitatis Victoriensis Diócesis de Ciudad Victoria | |
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Location | |
Country | Mexico |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Monterrey |
Statistics | |
Area | 15,341 sq mi (39,730 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 463,762 387,241 (83.5%) |
Parishes | 33 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 21 December 1964 (59 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Rogelio Cabrera López |
Bishops emeritus | Antonio González Sánchez |
Website | |
www.diocesisdevictoria.org |
The Diocese of Ciudad Victoria (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Victoriensis) 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 Monterrey. The diocese was erected on 21 December 1964.
Ordinaries
[edit]- José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza (1965-1973)
- Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones (1974-1985)
- Raymundo López Mateos, O.F.M. (1985-1994)
- Antonio González Sánchez (1995-2021)
- Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal (2021-present)
Episcopal See
[edit]External links
[edit]- "Diocese of Ciudad Victoria". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
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