Territorial Prelature of Mixes, Mexico

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Mixes / Mixepolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Antequera

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1964.12.21: Established as Territorial Prelature of Mixes / Mixepolitan(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Tehuantepec and became suffragan of Antequera)

Contact Info

Address: Casa Parroquial, San Pedro y San Pablo s/n, 70283 - Ayutla-Mixes, Oax, Mexico

Phone: (951) 5-58-20-08

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2018.06.13 – ...):

Bishop Salvador Cleofás Murguía Medina, S.D.B. (71)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Mixes (Roman Rite)

Bishop Salvador Cleofás Murguía Medina, S.D.B. (71)
(2018.06.13 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Mixes (Mexico)

Born:	1953.09.25 (León, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1982.12.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2018.08.02

Bishop-Prelate of Mixes (Mexico) (2018.06.13 – ...)

Bishop Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B. (83)
(2007.03.03 – 2018.06.13)

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Mixes (Mexico)

Born:	1941.09.14 (México, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1968.12.28
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.04.28

Bishop-Prelate of Mixes (Mexico) (2007.03.03 – 2018.06.13)

Bishop Luis Felipe Gallardo Martín del Campo, S.D.B. (83)
(2000.12.16 – 2006.05.08)

Bishop emeritus of Veracruz (Mexico)

Born:	1941.12.12 (Irapuato, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1967.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.02.24

Bishop-Prelate of Mixes (Mexico) (2000.12.16 – 2006.05.08)

Bishop of Veracruz (Mexico) (2006.05.08 – 2018.11.12)

Bishop Braulio Sánchez Fuentes, S.D.B.
(1970.01.14 – 2000.12.16)

Born:	1922.08.04 (Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1950.10.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1970.05.01
Died:	2003.11.18 († 81)

Apostolic Administrator of Mixes (Mexico) (1966 – 1970.01.14)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ novæ in Proconsulari (1970.01.14 – 1978.02.15)

Bishop-Prelate of Mixes (Mexico) (1970.01.14 – 2000.12.16)

Fr. Braulio Sánchez Fuentes, S.D.B. (later Bishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1966 – 1970.01.14)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de San Pedro y San Pablo, San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla, Oaxaca

Antequera (←), Tuxtepec (↖), San Andrés Tuxtla (↑), Tehuantepec (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 10,000 km²

Population: 147,000 Catholics (85.4% of 172,224 total)

Pastoral Centres: 21 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 34 priests (19 diocesan, 15 religious), 14 deacons, 55 religious (18 brothers, 37 sisters), 5 seminarians