Diocese of Huajuapan de León
Huaiuapanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Huajuapan de León, Mexico
Latin rite diocese in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, Mexico, erected 25 April 1902. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Puebla de los Angeles. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Huajuapan de Leon.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1902
- Latin
- Huaiuapanen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001616
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 720,000
- Population
- 760,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 94.7%
- Priests
- 118
- Catholics per priest
- 6,102
- Extent
- 26,009 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
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
- Miguel Angel Castro Munoz
- Born
- 15 November 1970
- Birthplace
- Puebla
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 Our Lady of Guadalupe stands in Huajuapan de León, 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 Puebla de los Angeles
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Puebla de los Angeles.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of TlaxcalaTlaxcala
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
First erected on 25 April 1902 under the name Diocese of Mixtecas, this Latin Church jurisdiction received its present name on 13 November 1903. The Diocese of Huajuapan de León (Latin: Dioecesis Huaiuapanensis) is a suffragan within the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles, and its cathedra rests in the Catedral de la Virgen de Guadalupe in the see city of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.