Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano
Civitatis Altamiren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Guerrero, Mexico
The Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano is a Latin Church diocese in Guerrero, Mexico, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Acapulco, erected on 27 October 1964. The see has been vacant since Bishop Joel Ocampo Gorostieta was transferred to Zamora in November 2025, with Fr. Oton Carranza Lorenzo serving as Diocesan Administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 October 1964
- Latin
- Civitatis Altamiren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001001160
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 885,000
- Population
- 913,000
- Catholic share
- 96.9%
- Priests
- 72
- Catholics per priest
- 12,292
- Extent
- 16,006 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 55
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral de San Juan Bautista stands in Ajuchitlán del Progreso, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Acapulco
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Acapulco.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AcapulcoAcapulco
- Diocese of Chilpancingo–ChilapaAcamixtla
- Diocese of TlapaTlapa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Mexico, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Altamirensis) stands as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Acapulco.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Benito Juárez 205 Oriente, 40660 Ciudad Altamirano, Gro., México
- Telephone
- e fax [767]672-00-37; fax 672-17-74
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].