Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis

Diócesis de Ciudad Obregón
Location
Country Mexico
Ecclesiastical provinceProvince of Hermosillo
MetropolitanCiudad Obregón
Statistics
Area34,125 sq mi (88,380 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
1,031,000
889,000 (86.2%)
Parishes58
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
RiteRoman Rite
Established20 June 1959 (64 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Bishop electRutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis) (erected 20 June 1959). It is centered in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo. Along with the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, it yielded territory in 1966 to form the Territorial Prelature of Madera.

Bishops

Ordinaries

  • José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda (28 November 1959 – 4 March 1967)
  • Miguel González Ibarra (15 July 1967 – 14 November 1981)
  • Luis Reynoso Cervantes (15 July 1982 – 17 August 1987), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
  • Vicente García Bernal (30 March 1988 – 8 November 2005)
  • Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez (8 November 2005 – 18 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Texcoco
  • Felipe Padilla Cardona (1 October 2009 – 15 September 2020)
  • Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini (15 September 2020 — present)[1]

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California in 2007

Episcopal See

References

  1. Zambrano, Jaime (September 15, 2020). "Nombra el Papa a obispo auxiliar de Puebla como obispo de Ciudad Obregón". www.msn.com (in Spanish). Milenio. Retrieved Sep 15, 2020.

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