Diocese of Ciudad Juárez
Civitatis Iuarezen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ciudad Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico
The Diocese of Ciudad Juarez is a Latin Church diocese in Chihuahua, Mexico, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua, erected by Pope Pius XII on 10 April 1957. It has been led by Bishop Jose Guadalupe Torres Campos since 2014.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 April 1957
- Latin
- Civitatis Iuarezen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Annuario code
- 001001165
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,179,000
- Population
- 2,564,000
- Catholic share
- 85.0%
- Priests
- 121
- Catholics per priest
- 18,008
- Extent
- 29,650 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 73
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 Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe stands in Ciudad Ahumada, 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 Chihuahua
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Chihuahua.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChihuahuaChihuahua
- Diocese of Cuauhtémoc–MaderaAnáhuac
- Diocese of Nuevo Casas GrandesAbdenago C. García
- Diocese of ParralParral
- Diocese of TarahumaraTarahumara
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Across the Río Grande from El Paso, Texas, in the northern Mexican city that shares its name, sits the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Iuarezensis). It belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Chihuahua as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].