Diocese of Tuxtepec, Mexico 🇲🇽

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Tuxtepec / Tuxtepecen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Antequera

Neighbouring Dioceses: Antequera (↙), Huautla (←), Córdoba (↖), Veracruz (↑), San Andrés Tuxtla (→), Mixes (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1979.01.08: Established as Diocese of Tuxtepec / Tuxtepecen(sis) (Latin) (from Territorial Prelature of Huautla and became suffragan of Antequera)

Contact Info

Address: Bonfil #597, entre Juárez y Villa, Col. Santa Fe, 68320 - Tuxtepec, Oax., Mexico

Phone: (287) 8-75-48-61

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Tuxtepec (Roman Rite)

Bishop José Alberto González Juárez (58)
(2015.06.06 – 2026.02.11)

Bishop of Campeche (Mexico)

Permanecer y fructificar

Born:	1967.12.19 (El Parral, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1995.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.07.22

Priest of Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico) (1995.12.08 – 2015.06.06)

Bishop of Tuxtepec (Mexico) (2015.06.06 – 2026.02.11)

Bishop of Campeche (Mexico) (2026.02.11 – ...)

Bishop José Antonio Fernández Hurtado (73) (later Archbishop)
(2005.02.11 – 2014.09.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico)
Apostolic Administrator of Azcapotzalco (Mexico)

In nomine Domini

Born:	1952.12.02 (Morelia, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1978.10.14
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.05.11

Priest of Tula (Mexico) (1978.10.14 – 2005.02.11)

Bishop of Tuxtepec (Mexico) (2005.02.11 – 2014.09.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Durango (Mexico) (2014.09.26 – 2019.01.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico) (2019.01.25 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Cuautitlán (Mexico) (2021.09.14 – 2022.11.09)

Apostolic Administrator of Azcapotzalco (Mexico) (2026.04.13 – ...)

Bishop José de Jesús Castillo Rentería, M.N.M.
(1979.01.08 – 2005.02.11)

Born:	1927.07.02 (México, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1950.06.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.04.22
Died:	2013.04.23 (México, Mexico † 85)

Bishop of Tuxtepec (Mexico) (1979.01.08 – 2005.02.11)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de San Juan Bautista, Tuxtepec, Oaxaca

Churches by City (27)

Antequera (↙), Huautla (←), Córdoba (↖), Veracruz (↑), San Andrés Tuxtla (→), Mixes (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 6,000 km²

Population: 321,412 Catholics (74.0% of 434,367 total)

Pastoral Centres: 32 parishes

Personnel: 58 priests (51 diocesan, 7 religious), 4 deacons, 38 religious (7 brothers, 31 sisters), 14 seminarians