Diocese of Tehuacán, Mexico 🇲🇽

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Tehuacán / Tehuacanien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Puebla de los Ángeles

Neighbouring Dioceses: Huajuapan de León (↙), Puebla de los Ángeles (↖), Orizaba (↗), Córdoba (→), Huautla (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1962.01.13: Established as Diocese of Tehuacán / Tehuacanien(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles and became suffragan of Puebla de los Ángeles)

Contact Info

Address: Agustín A. Cacho #113, Centro, 75700 - Tehuacán, Pue., Mexico

Phone: (238) 3-83-20-00

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.10.20 – ...):

Bishop Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero (61)

Monsignors (4)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Tehuacán (Roman Rite)

Bishop Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero (61)
(2018.10.20 – ...)

Bishop of Tehuacán (Mexico)

Misericors et fidelis

Born:	1964.07.07 (San Luis de la Paz, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1989.05.18
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.02.05

Priest of Celaya (Mexico) (1989.05.18 – 2012.11.20)

Titular Bishop of Cissa (2012.11.20 – 2018.10.20)

Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera (Mexico) (2012.11.20 – 2018.10.20)

Bishop of Tehuacán (Mexico) (2018.10.20 – ...)

Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez (74)
(2006.01.28 – 2017.11.03)

Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico)

Servir y dar la vida

Born:	1952.03.05 (Valle de Santiago, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1975.07.25
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.07.31

Priest of Morelia (Mexico) (1975.07.25 – 1997.05.28)

Bishop of Matehuala (Mexico) (1997.05.28 – 2006.01.28)

Bishop of Tehuacán (Mexico) (2006.01.28 – 2017.11.03)

Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico) (2017.11.03 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico) (2023.11.27 – 2025.02.26)

Bishop Mario Espinosa Contreras (76)
(1996.04.02 – 2005.03.03)

Bishop of Mazatlán (Mexico)

Born:	1949.11.22 (Tepic, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1973.07.14
Consecrated Bishop:	1996.05.11

Priest of Tepic (Mexico) (1973.07.14 – 1996.04.02)

Bishop of Tehuacán (Mexico) (1996.04.02 – 2005.03.03)

Bishop of Mazatlán (Mexico) (2005.03.03 – ...)

Bishop Norberto Rivera Carrera (84) (later Cardinal)
(1985.11.05 – 1995.06.13)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande
Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of México (Mexico)

Lumen Gentium

Born:	1942.06.06 (La Purísima, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1966.07.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1985.12.21
Created Cardinal:	1998.02.21

Priest of Durango (Mexico) (1966.07.03 – 1985.11.05)

Bishop of Tehuacán (Mexico) (1985.11.05 – 1995.06.13)

Metropolitan Archbishop of México (Mexico) (1995.06.13 – 2017.12.07)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande (1998.02.21 [1998.10.18] – ...)

Member of Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organisational and Economic Problems of the Apostolic See (2010.10.23 – 2014.02.24)

Member of Council for the Economy (2014.03.08 – 2019.03.08)

Bishop Rafael Ayala y Ayala
(1962.06.18 – 1985.07.05)

Born:	1913.10.25 (Coatepec de Harinas, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1942.05.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.09.02
Died:	1985.07.05 († 71)

Bishop of Tehuacán (Mexico) (1962.06.18 – 1985.07.05)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín (1978.03.17 – 1980.10.30)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, Tehuacan, Puebla

Churches by City (61)

Huajuapan de León (↙), Puebla de los Ángeles (↖), Orizaba (↗), Córdoba (→), Huautla (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 6,294 km²

Population: 1,047,860 Catholics (93.2% of 1,124,380 total)

Pastoral Centres: 59 parishes, 17 missions

Personnel: 101 priests (91 diocesan, 10 religious), 122 religious (17 brothers, 105 sisters), 12 seminarians