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Diocese of Las Cruces

Crucien(sis)

The Diocese of Las Cruces is a Latin Rite see covering ten counties in southern New Mexico, erected in 1982 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Bishop Peter Baldacchino has led the diocese since 2019.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
17 August 1982
Latin
Crucien(sis)
Patron
Saint Francis of Assisi
Annuario code
001001961

The see in figures

Catholics
234,000
Population
527,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
44.4%
Priests
65
Catholics per priest
3,600
Extent
115,211 km²
Catholics per km²
2.0

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

Bishop
Peter Baldacchino
Born
5 December 1960
Birthplace
Sliema

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary stands in Las Cruces, 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 Santa Fe

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Southern New Mexico in the United States is served by the Diocese of Las Cruces (Latin: Dioecesis Cruciensis, Spanish: Diócesis de Las Cruces), a suffragan see of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Las Cruces, and Peter Baldacchino is its bishop.

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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.