Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec

Latin Catholic jurisdiction in Mexico

Diocese of Tehuantepec Dioecesis Tehuantepecensis


Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Antequera
Population - Catholics	1,320,000^[1]
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	June 23, 1891^[2]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Crispín Ojeda Márquez Bishop of Tehuantepec

The Diocese of Tehuantepec (Latin: Dioecesis Tehuantepecensis) 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 Antequera.^[3] It was erected in 1891 from the Dioceses of Veracruz and Antequera.^[4]

Bishops

Ordinaries

José Mora y del Rio (1893-1901), appointed, Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo
Carlos de Jesús Mejía y Laguna, C.M. (1902-1907)
Ignacio Placencia y Moreira (1907-1922), appointed Archbishop (Personal Title) of Zacatecas
Jenaro Méndez y del Río (1923-1933), appointed, Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca
Jesús Villareal y Fierro (1933-1959), appointed Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz
José de Jesús Clemens Alba Palacios (1959-1970), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca
Arturo Lona Reyes (1971-2000)
Felipe Padilla Cardona (2000-2009), appointed Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora
Óscar Armando Campos Contreras (2010-2017), appointed, Bishop of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco
Crispin Ojeda Márquez (2018–present)

Coadjutor bishop

Felipe Padilla Cardona (1996-2000)

Auxiliary bishop

José Refugio Mercado Díaz (2003-2009)

References

^ Catholic Hierarchy page
^ Archdiocese Statistics at Catholic Hierarchy
^ Tehuantepec - Catholic Encyclopedia article
^ Lyman De Platt (1978). Genealogical historical guide to Latin America. Gale Research Co. p. 96. ISBN 9780810313897.