Diocese of Campeche
| Diocese of Campeche Dioecesis Campecorensis Diócesis de Campeche | |
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| Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción
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| Location | |
| Country | Mexico |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province of Yucatán |
| Metropolitan | Campeche, Campeche |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 21,575 sq mi (55,880 km2) |
| Population Total Catholics |
(as of 2006) 760,000 608,000 (80%) |
| Parishes | 35 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 24 March 1895 (131 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | José Alberto González Juárez |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Gustavo Rodríguez Vega |
The Diocese of Campeche (Latin: Dioecesis Campecorensis) (erected 24 March 1895) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Yucatán.
Bishops
Ordinaries
- Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete (1895 – 1898), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
- Rómulo Betancourt y Torres (1900 – 1901)
- Francisco de Paula Mendoza y Herrera (1904 – 1909), appointed Archbishop of Durango
- Jaime de Anasagasti y Llamas (1909 – 1910)
- Vicente Castellanos y Núñez (1912 – 1921), appointed Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo
- Francisco María González y Arias (1922 – 1931), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
- Luis Guízar y Barragán (1931 – 1938), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila
- Alberto Mendoza y Bedolla (1939 – 1967)
- José de Jesús Garcia Ayala (1967 – 1982), resigned
- Héctor González Martínez (1982 – 1988), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca
- Carlos Suárez Cázares (1988 – 1994), appointed Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán
- José Luis Amezcua Melgoza (1995 – 2005), appointed Bishop of Colima
- Ramón Castro Castro (2006 – 2013), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
- José Francisco González González (2013 – 2025), appointed Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas
- José Alberto González Juárez (2026 – Present)
Auxiliary bishop
- José de Jesús Garcia Ayala (1963-1967), appointed Bishop here
Episcopal See
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Roman Catholic Diocese of Campeche is a diocese of the catholic church of the Catholic Church.[1]
External links
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Diocese of Campeche — Diocese in the State of Campeche, Republic of Mexico, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Yucatan (see Yucatan). It was created 24 March, 1895, by division of the Diocese of Yucatan. Its territory includes the western portion of the Peninsula of Yucatan, and in the north is mainly a plain, from which rise the heights of Sierra Alta. Broad savannahs and dense forests abound. The southern part is abundantly watered by running streams. The Spanish captain, Hernández de Córdova, and the pilot, Anton de Alaminos, discovered (20 March, 1517) a seaside village inhabited by Maya Indians, and known to the natives as Ah Kin Pech, which the Spaniards translated Campeche, often, anglicized as Campeachy. In 1540 Captain Montejo, with thirty Spaniards, founded on this site a seaport town. A church was at once begun (Santa Maria de la Concepción, the present cathedral); the first priest was Francisco Hernández, Montejo's chaplain. Later on a storm drove upon the Campeche coast the vessel in which Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapas, was returning to his diocese; this illustrious man was therefore the first bishop to visit Campeche. Its first missionaries were Franciscans; in 1715 the Jesuits came to Campeche, but were expelled 12 June, 1767.
The diocese is bounded on the north by the Diocese of Yucatan; on the south by the Archdiocese of Guatemala and the Vicariate Apostolic of Belize; on the south-east and west by the Dioceses of Chiapas and Tabasco, and by the Gulf of Mexico. It has a population of about 100,000, with twenty-three parishes. The third bishop, Don Francisco Mendoza y Herrera, who was appointed 17 January, 1905, opened a diocesan seminary and three colleges, and built an episcopal residence. Since 1901 there has been in the Diocese of Campeche a small group of non-Catholics. The episcopal city, Campeche, situated on the bay of that name, about ninety miles south-west of Mérida, has about 16,000 inhabitants, two parishes, and twelve churches. The chief exports are maze, sugar, sisle-hemp, salt, wax, logwood, and mahogany. Ship-carpentry is the principal local industry, the harbour, though shallow, being quite capacious.
Gerarchia Cattolica (Rome, 1907); Battendier, Ann. pont. cath. (Paris, 1907), 217; Catholic Directory (Milwaukee, 1907, Foreign, 187.
Alberto Marcilla.
References
Bibliography
- "Diocese of Campeche". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-10.