Diocese of El Salto

Salten(sis) in Mexico

Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Canelas, Durango, Mexico

Territorial prelature in Pueblo Nuevo, Durango, Mexico, erected on 10 June 1968 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Durango. The see is vacant since Bishop Juan María Huerta Muro was transferred to Xochimilco on 11 February 2025.

The see

Rank: Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition: Latin Church
Erected: 10 June 1968
Latin: Salten(sis) in Mexico
Annuario code: 001000265

The see in figures

Catholics: 364,650
Population: 435,500
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds: 83.7%
Priests: 27
Catholics per priest: 13,506
Extent: 36,000 km²
Catholics per km²: 10

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 Santa María de Guadalupe stands in Canelas, 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 Durango

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Durango.

The sees of this province:

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

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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.