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Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec
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The Diocese of Tehuantepec (Latin: Dioecesis Tehuantepecensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera.[3] It was erected in 1891 from the Dioceses of Veracruz and Antequera.[4]

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Bishops

Ordinaries

  • José Mora y del Rio (1893-1901), appointed, Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo
  • Carlos de Jesús Mejía y Laguna, C.M. (1902-1907)
  • Ignacio Placencia y Moreira (1907-1922), appointed Archbishop (Personal Title) of Zacatecas
  • Jenaro Méndez y del Río (1923-1933), appointed, Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca
  • Jesús Villareal y Fierro (1933-1959), appointed Bishop of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz
  • José de Jesús Clemens Alba Palacios (1959-1970), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca
  • Arturo Lona Reyes (1971-2000)
  • Felipe Padilla Cardona (2000-2009), appointed Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora
  • Óscar Armando Campos Contreras (2010-2017), appointed, Bishop of Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco
  • Crispin Ojeda Márquez (2018–present)

Coadjutor bishop

  • Felipe Padilla Cardona (1996-2000)

Auxiliary bishop

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