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Diocese of Ciudad Juárez

Civitatis Iuarezen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ciudad Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico

The Diocese of Ciudad Juarez is a Latin Church diocese in Chihuahua, Mexico, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua, erected by Pope Pius XII on 10 April 1957. It has been led by Bishop Jose Guadalupe Torres Campos since 2014.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 April 1957
Latin
Civitatis Iuarezen(sis)
Patron
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Annuario code
001001165

The see in figures

Catholics
2,179,000
Population
2,564,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
85.0%
Priests
121
Catholics per priest
18,008
Extent
29,650 km²
Catholics per km²
73

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.

The cathedral

Catedral de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe stands in Ciudad Ahumada, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Chihuahua

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Chihuahua.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Across the Río Grande from El Paso, Texas, in the northern Mexican city that shares its name, sits the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Iuarezensis). It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Chihuahua as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.