Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuacán

Diocese of Tehuacán Dioecesis Tehuacaniensis Diócesis de Tehuacán
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Puebla de los Ángeles
Statistics
Area	2,431 sq mi (6,300 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 1,017,000 962,000 (94.6%)
Parishes	57
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	13 January 1962 (62 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero
Metropolitan Archbishop	Victor Sánchez Espinosa

The Diocese of Tehuacán (Template:Lang-la) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Puebla de los Angeles. The Diocese of Tehuacán was erected on 13 January 1962. Its cathedra is found within the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in the episcopal see of Tehuacán, Puebla.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Rafael Ayala y Ayala (1962 -1985)
• Norberto Rivera Carrera (1985 -1995), appointed Archbishop of México, Federal District; elevated to Cardinal in 1998
• Mario Espinosa Contreras (1996 -2005), appointed Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa
• Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez (2006 -2017), appointed Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
• Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero (2018 - )

Auxiliary bishop

• Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín (1978-1980), appointed Bishop of Papantla, Puebla

External links and references

• "Diocese of Tehuacán". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-08.