Diocese of Saltillo

Dioecesis Saltillensis

Diócesis de Saltillo
Catedral de Santiago
Location
CountryMexico
Ecclesiastical provinceMonterrey
Statistics
Area21,864 sq mi (56,630 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
546,576
524,987 (96.1%)
Parishes60
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established23 June 1891 (132 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of St. James
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopHilario González García
Metropolitan ArchbishopRogelio Cabrera López
Bishops emeritusJosé Raúl Vera López, O.P.
Map
Website
www.diocesisdesaltillo.org.mx

The Diocese of Saltillo (Latin: Dioecesis Saltillensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. The diocese was erected on 23 June 1891. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey.

History

The Franciscan priest Andres de Leon was one of the first missionaries in this territory in the sixteenth century. In 1827 the name of Saltillo was changed to Ciudad Leona Vicario, in honor of the Mexican heroine of that name, but the original name always prevailed. The Franciscans of the Province of Jalisco had eight missions in Coahuila, which, in 1777, formed part of the See of Linares, or Monterey, and belonged to it until 1891, when Pope Leo XIII erected the See of Saltillo with jurisdiction over the entire State of Coahuila.[1]

According to the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Vera Lopez, the bishop of Saltillo, Mexico, will meet with Marc Ouellet, the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops in the Vatican's Roman Curia, "to discuss Bishop Vera's support for the San Elredo Community, an organization that embraces homosexuality." The San Elredo Community has become a separate organization apart from the Diocese of Saltillo.[2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

Coadjutor bishop

  • Luis Guízar y Barragán (1938–1954)

Auxiliary bishops

Territorial losses

DateReason
19 June 1957to form the Diocese of Torreón
8 January 2003to form the Diocese of Piedras Negras

Episcopal See

  • "Diocese of Saltillo". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-07.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Saltillo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.



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