Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera

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).

Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera

Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis-Materiensis

Diócesis de Cuauhtémoc-Madera
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 (54 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of St. Anthony
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopJuan Guillermo López Soto
Metropolitan ArchbishopConstancio Miranda Weckmann
Map

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)

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
  • Renato Ascencio León (1988.07.19 – 1994.10.07), later Bishop of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (1994.10.07 – 2014.12.20)
Suffragan Bishops of Cuauhtémoc–Madera
  • Juan Guillermo López Soto (17 November 1995 - ), no previous prelature

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Constancio Miranda Wechmann, appointed Bishop of Atlacomulco, México in 1998

See also

  • Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua
  • Madera, Chihuahua
  • "Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
  • GCatholic, with Google map and - satellite photo


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