Territorial Prelature of Mixes
Mixepolitan(us)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Mixes, Mexico
Latin rite territorial prelature in the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico, erected 21 December 1964. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antequera (Oaxaca) and serves a largely indigenous Mixe population. It has long been entrusted to the Salesians of Don Bosco.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 December 1964
- Latin
- Mixepolitan(us)
- Patron
- María Auxiliadora
- Annuario code
- 001000283
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 128,000
- Population
- 172,224
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 74.3%
- Priests
- 34
- Catholics per priest
- 3,765
- Extent
- 10,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 13
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
- Salvador Cleofas Murguia Villalobos, S.D.B.
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
St. Peter und Paul in Ayutla stands in Mixes, 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 Antequera (Oaxaca)
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Antequera, OaxacaAntequera, Oaxaca
- Diocese of Puerto EscondidoPuerto Escondido
- Diocese of TehuantepecTehuantepec
- Territorial Prelature of HuautlaHuautla
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A missionary territory of the Latin Church in Mexico, the Territorial Prelature of Mixes (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Mixepolitanus) belongs to the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera. Its name honors both the city of San Juan Juquila Mixes and the Mixe people, and its episcopal see is at Ayutla.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Casa Prelaticia, Calle del Mercado s/n, Col. Centro, San Pedro y San Pablo, 70283 Ayutla, Mixes, Oax., México - (Tel. [951]558-20-08; fax 558-20-98)
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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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.