Catholic Intelligence

Diocese of El Salto

Salten(sis) in Mexico

Territorial prelature in Pueblo Nuevo, Durango, Mexico, erected on 10 June 1968 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Durango. The see is vacant since Bishop Juan María Huerta Muro was transferred to Xochimilco on 11 February 2025.

The see

Rank
Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 June 1968
Latin
Salten(sis) in Mexico
Annuario code
001000265

The see in figures

Catholics
364,650
Priests
27
Catholics per priest
13,506
Extent
36,000 km²
Catholics per km²
10

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 Santa María de Guadalupe stands in Canelas, 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 Durango

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Durango.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

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.

Ask to enter

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].