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Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas

Civitatis Lazari Cárdenas

Latin rite diocese on the Pacific coast of Michoacan, Mexico, erected 11 October 1985. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Morelia. Its seat is the Cathedral of Christ the King in Ciudad Lazaro Cardenas.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
11 October 1985
Latin
Civitatis Lazari Cárdenas
Annuario code
001001166

The see in figures

Catholics
725,000
Population
805,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
90.1%
Priests
47
Catholics per priest
15,426
Extent
14,885 km²
Catholics per km²
49

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
Armando Antonio Ortiz Aguirre
Born
17 February 1952
Birthplace
Guanajuato

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 Christ the King stands in Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, 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 Morelia

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Morelia.

The sees of this province:

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

History

A Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Lazari Cárdenas) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Morelia. The bishop's cathedra rests in the Cathedral of Christ the King in the see city of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

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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.