Recent Events

Fr. Trinidad Antonio Márquez Guerrero was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Melzi and Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico)

Archbishop José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Hermosillo (Mexico), passed away at 85

Archbishop José Antonio Fernández Hurtado, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Azcapotzalco (Mexico)

Bishop José Benjamín Castillo Plascencia, Bishop emeritus of Celaya (Mexico), passed away at 80

Archbishop Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Luis Potosí (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Matehuala (Mexico)

Fr. José Eugenio Ramos Delgado was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Mattiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico)

Mr. Mauricio López Oropeza resigned as Vice-President of Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA)

Cardinal Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to United States of America

Bishop Vartán Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires of the Armenians (Argentina) and Apostolic Administrator of América Latina e México of the Armenians (Brazil)

Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil) and Member of Council for the Economy, was appointed as Apostolic Administrator for Brazil of América Latina e México of the Armenians (Brazil)

Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Montevideo (Uruguay) and Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Uruguay, was appointed as Apostolic Administrator for Uruguay of América Latina e México of the Armenians (Brazil)

Archbishop Javier Herrera Corona (何明哲), Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Tunisia

Bishop Adolfo Miguel Castaño Fonseca, Bishop of Azcapotzalco (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Atlacomulco (Mexico)

Bishop José Alberto González Juárez, Bishop of Tuxtepec (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Campeche (Mexico)

Bishop Juan Pedro Juárez Meléndez resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Atlacomulco (Mexico)

Bishop Margarito Salazar Cárdenas, Bishop of Matehuala (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Tampico (Mexico)

Bishop Oscar Efraín Tamez Villareal resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Tampico (Mexico)

Fr. Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez López, L.C., was appointed as Director General of Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ and Grand Chancellor of Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum

Bishop Miguel Angel Alba Díaz, Bishop emeritus of La Paz (Mexico), passed away at 75

Bishop Miguel Angel Alba Díaz resigned as Bishop of La Paz (Mexico)

Bishop Miguel Ángel Espinoza Garza succeeded as Bishop of La Paz (Mexico)

Cardinal Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre, Cardinal-Deacon of S. Benedetto fuori Porta S. Paolo and Apostolic Nuncio to United States of America, reached the age of 80 and became ineligible to vote in a future conclave (France)

Fr. Trinidad Antonio Márquez Guerrero, Priest of San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico), was elected Titular Bishop of Melzi and Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico)

Bishop Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, L.C., Bishop emeritus of Cancún–Chetumal (Mexico), passed away at 76

Archbishop José Armando Álvarez Cano succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Morelia (Mexico)

Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Morelia (Mexico)

Fr. Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez was consecrated as Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)

Bishop Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, L.C., resigned as Bishop of Cancún–Chetumal (Mexico)

Bishop Salvador González Morales, Titular Bishop of Lacubaza and Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Cancún–Chetumal (Mexico)

Fr. José Eugenio Ramos Delgado, Priest of Monterrey (Mexico), was elected Titular Bishop of Mattiana and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico)

Bishop Mario Alberto Avilés Campos, C.O., Titular Bishop of Cataquas and Auxiliary Bishop of Brownsville (USA), was appointed as Bishop of Corpus Christi (USA)

Archbishop Javier Herrera Corona (何明哲), Apostolic Nuncio to Republic of Congo and Apostolic Nuncio to Gabon, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Algeria

Bishop Javier Navarro Rodríguez resigned as Bishop of Zamora (Mexico)

Bishop Joel Ocampo Gorostieta, Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Zamora (Mexico)

Bishop Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín, Bishop emeritus of Papantla (Mexico), passed away at 88

Bishop Mario Nicolás Villanueva Arellano, Auxiliary Bishop of Tijuana (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Tijuana (Mexico)

Bishop Alejo Zavala Castro, Bishop emeritus of Chilpancingo–Chilapa (Mexico), passed away at 83

Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tijuana (Mexico), passed away at 71

Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)

Fr. Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez, Priest of Chihuahua (Mexico), was elected Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)

Br. Ernesto Barba Sánchez, F.M.S., resigned as Superior General of Marist Brothers

Fr. José Luis Cerra Luna was consecrated as Bishop of Nogales (Mexico)

Fr. José Luis García Franco, M.S.C., resigned as Superior General of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and Saint Mary of Guadalupe

Bishop Luis Artemio Flores Calzada resigned as Bishop of Tepic (Mexico)

Bishop Engelberto Polino Sánchez, Titular Bishop of Vazari-Didda and Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Tepic (Mexico)

Bishop José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (USA), was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio (USA)

Bishop Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez resigned as Bishop of Texcoco (Mexico)

Bishop Carlos Enrique Samaniego López, Titular Bishop of Cillium and Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Texcoco (Mexico)

Msgr. José Nahúm Jairo Salas Castañeda resigned as Person-in-charge of Central Statistics Office of the Church

Archbishop Ruy Rendón Leal resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Nogales (Mexico)

Fr. José Luis Cerra Luna, Priest of Matamoros–Reynosa (Mexico), was elected Bishop of Nogales (Mexico)

Fr. Andrés Sáinz Márquez was consecrated as Bishop-Prelate of Jesús María (Mexico)

Bishop Emigdio Duarte Figueroa resigned as General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Honduras

Fr. Guillermo Rodríguez, O.F.M., resigned as Delegate ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Sodalitium of Christian Life

Bishop Luis Manuel López Alfaro, Titular Bishop of Garba and Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Tapachula (Mexico)

Fr. Javier del Castillo, Opus Dei, was appointed as Vicar General of Opus Dei

Bishop Vartán Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires of the Armenians (Argentina) and Apostolic Administrator of América Latina e México of the Armenians (Brazil)

Fr. Víctor Melchor Quintana Quezada was consecrated as Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (Mexico)

Bishop Oscar Efraín Tamez Villareal, Bishop of Ciudad Victoria (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Tampico (Mexico)

Bishop Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco, Bishop emeritus of Iztapalapa (Mexico), passed away at 79