Recent Events

Fr. José Maria Garcia Maldonado was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Fallaba and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA)

Bishop Braulio Rafael León Villegas, Bishop emeritus of Ciudad Guzmán (Mexico), passed away at 79

Fr. José Maria Garcia Maldonado, Priest of Chicago (USA), was elected Titular Bishop of Fallaba and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA)

Fr. Mario Nicolás Villanueva Arellano was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Gegi and Auxiliary Bishop of Tijuana (Mexico)

Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López resigned as President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.)

Archbishop Jaime Calderón Calderón, Metropolitan Archbishop of León (Mexico), was appointed as Vice-President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.)

Archbishop Gustavo Rodríguez Vega resigned as Vice-President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.)

Bishop Ramón Castro Castro, Bishop of Cuernavaca (Mexico) and General Secretary of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.), was appointed as President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.)

Bishop Héctor Mario Pérez Villareal, Auxiliary Bishop of México (Mexico), was appointed as General Secretary of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.)

Bishop Pablo León Hakimian, Bishop of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires of the Armenians (Argentina) and Apostolic Exarch of América Latina e México of the Armenians (Brazil), passed away at 70

Fr. Mario Nicolás Villanueva Arellano, Priest of Tijuana (Mexico), was elected Titular Bishop of Gegi and Auxiliary Bishop of Tijuana (Mexico)

Fr. Moisés Lira Serafín, M.Sp.S., Founder of Congregation of Missionaries of the Charity of Immaculate Mary, was beatified

Fr. Luis Alfonso Tut Tun was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Arba and Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera (Mexico)

Fr. Víctor Carabés Chávez, M.N.M., was consecrated as Bishop of Tenancingo (Mexico)

Bishop Georges M. Saad Abi Younes, O.L.M., resigned as Bishop of Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Líbano en México of the Maronites (Mexico)

Fr. Elie Mikhael was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Líbano en México of the Maronites (Mexico)

Bishop Jaime Calderón Calderón, Bishop of Tapachula (Mexico), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of León (Mexico)

Archbishop Alfonso Cortés Contreras resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of León (Mexico)

Archbishop Domingo Díaz Martínez resigned as Metropolitan Archbishop of Tulancingo (Mexico)

Bishop Oscar Roberto Domínguez Couttolenc, M.G., Bishop of Ecatepec (Mexico), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Tulancingo (Mexico)

Bishop Juan Pedro Juárez Meléndez, Bishop of Tula (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Atlacomulco (Mexico)

Bishop Juan Odilón Martínez García resigned as Bishop of Atlacomulco (Mexico)

Fr. Luis Alfonso Tut Tun, Priest of Yucatán (Mexico), was elected Titular Bishop of Arba and Auxiliary Bishop of Antequera (Mexico)

Bishop Juan Carlos Arcq Guzmán, Titular Bishop of Milevum and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Tacámbaro (Mexico)

Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño resigned as Bishop of Piedras Negras (Mexico)

Bishop Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola, Titular Bishop of Idicra and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Piedras Negras (Mexico)

Diocese of Matamoros was renamed as Diocese of Matamoros–Reynosa (Mexico)

Bishop Eugenio Andrés Lira Rugarcía, Bishop of Matamoros (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Matamoros–Reynosa (Mexico)

Archbishop Ruy Rendón Leal, Metropolitan Archbishop of Hermosillo (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Nogales (Mexico)

Bishop Óscar Armando Campos Contreras resigned as Bishop of Ciudad Guzmán (Mexico)

Bishop Herculano Medina Garfias, Titular Bishop of Gegi and Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Ciudad Guzmán (Mexico)

Cardinal Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre took possession as Cardinal-Deacon of S. Benedetto fuori Porta S. Paolo

Fr. Víctor Carabés Chávez, M.N.M., was elected Bishop of Tenancingo (Mexico)

Bishop José Trinidad González Rodríguez, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Guadalajara (Mexico), passed away at 80

Archbishop Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe resigned as Apostolic Administrator of San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico)

Bishop José Leopoldo González González, Bishop of Nogales (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico)

Bishop Eduardo Muñoz Ochoa, Titular Bishop of Satafis and Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Autlán (Mexico)

Bishop Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, M.N.M., resigned as Bishop of Autlán (Mexico)

Archbishop Luis Morales Reyes, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of San Luis Potosí (Mexico), passed away at 87

Fr. Francisco Javier Martínez Castillo was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Nepte and Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)

Bishop Heriberto Cavazos Pérez resigned as Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico)

Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez, Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mexico), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico)

Archbishop Fabio Martínez Castilla, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico), passed away at 73

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Cardinal-Bishop of Ss. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari and Cardinal Vice-Dean of College of Cardinals, reached the age of 80 and became ineligible to vote in a future conclave (Argentina)

Archbishop Fermín Emilio Sosa Rodríguez, Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and Apostolic Nuncio to Solomon Islands, was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia

Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López, Metropolitan Archbishop of Monterrey (Mexico) and President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)

Fr. Francisco Javier Martínez Castillo, Priest of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico), was elected Titular Bishop of Nepte and Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico)

Archbishop Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre, Titular Archbishop of Gunela and Apostolic Nuncio to United States of America, was created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Benedetto fuori Porta S. Paolo

Fr. Felipe Pulido was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Buffada and Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego (USA)

Bishop Jonás Guerrero Corona resigned as Bishop of Culiacán (Mexico)

Bishop Jesús José Herrera Quiñónez, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Culiacán (Mexico)

Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Mexicali (Mexico)

Bishop Enrique Sánchez Martínez, Bishop of Nuevo Laredo (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Mexicali (Mexico)

Fr. Carlos Alberto Santos García was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Tamada and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico)

Bishop Jorge Bernal Vargas, L.C., Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Cancún–Chetumal (Mexico), passed away at 94

Bishop Rogelio Esquivel Medina, Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of México (Mexico), passed away at 82

Fr. Felipe Pulido, Priest of Yakima (USA), was elected Titular Bishop of Buffada and Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego (USA)

Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Colima (Mexico)

Bishop Gerardo Díaz Vázquez, Bishop of Tacámbaro (Mexico), was appointed as Bishop of Colima (Mexico)

Fr. Carlos Alberto Santos García, Priest of Monterrey (Mexico), was elected Titular Bishop of Tamada and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey (Mexico)