Diocese of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico 🇲🇽

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Nuevo Laredo / Novolareden(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Monterrey

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1989.11.06: Established as Diocese of Nuevo Laredo / Novolareden(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey and Diocese of Matamoros and became suffragan of Monterrey)

Contact Info

Address: Veracruz #2426 Col. Madero, 88270 - Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., Mexico

Phone: (867) 7-11-29-28

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.10.07 – ...):

Bishop-elect Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez (63)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Nuevo Laredo (Roman Rite)

Bishop-elect Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez (63)
(2025.10.07 – ...)

Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)

Born:	1962.07.21 (Delicias, CHH, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1993.10.14
Consecrated Bishop:	2026.01.14

Priest of Chihuahua (Mexico) (1993.10.14 – 2025.10.07)

Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) (2025.10.07 – ...)

Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López (74)
(Apostolic Administrator 2023.11.08 – 2025.10.07)

Bishop Enrique Sánchez Martínez (64)
(2015.11.16 – 2023.09.11)

Bishop of Mexicali (Mexico)

Videns eum misericordia motus est

Born:	1960.12.02 (Cuencamé, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1986.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.10.10

Priest of Durango (Mexico) (1986.06.29 – 2008.07.21)

Titular Bishop of Thamugadi (2008.07.21 – 2015.11.16)

Auxiliary Bishop of Durango (Mexico) (2008.07.21 – 2015.11.16)

Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) (2015.11.16 – 2023.09.11)

Bishop of Mexicali (Mexico) (2023.09.11 – ...)

Bishop Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe (63) (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 2015.07.29 – 2015.11.16)

Bishop Gustavo Rodríguez Vega (70) (later Archbishop)
(2008.10.08 – 2015.06.01)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Yucatán (Mexico)

Evangelizare pauperibus

Born:	1955.03.07 (Monterrey, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1980.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.08.14

Priest of Monterrey (Mexico) (1980.08.15 – 2001.06.27)

Titular Bishop of Obba (2001.06.27 – 2008.10.08)

Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico) (2001.06.27 – 2008.10.08)

Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) (2008.10.08 – 2015.06.01)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Yucatán (Mexico) (2015.06.01 – ...)

Vice-President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (2021.11.10 – 2024.11.12)

Bishop Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S.
(1989.11.06 – 2008.02.21)

Hágase tu voluntad

Born:	1938.07.16 (San Diego, CA, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1968.06.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1980.07.19
Died:	2011.11.01 (Tepic, Mexico † 73)

Titular Bishop of Macomades (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06)

Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico) (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06)

Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) (1989.11.06 – 2008.02.21)

Bishop of Tepic (Mexico) (2008.02.21 – 2011.11.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral del Espíritu Santo, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Churches by City (46)

Monterrey (↙), Saltillo (↙), Piedras Negras (↖), Laredo (↗), Brownsville (↘), Matamoros–Reynosa (↘), Linares (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 19,378 km²

Population: 367,860 Catholics (69.8% of 526,807 total)

Pastoral Centres: 43 parishes, 115 missions

Personnel: 65 priests (50 diocesan, 15 religious), 20 deacons, 102 religious (15 brothers, 87 sisters), 11 seminarians