Diocese of Jesús María
Nayarian(us) de Iesu et Maria
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Guadalupe Ocotán, Nayarit, Mexico
The Territorial Prelature of Jesús María, el Nayar is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in Nayarit, Mexico, serving largely indigenous Cora, Huichol and Tepehuan communities. It was erected in 1962, is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, and has been led since 2025 by Bishop Andrés Sáinz Márquez.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 January 1962
- Latin
- Nayarian(us) de Iesu et Maria
- Annuario code
- 001000275
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 136,540
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 9,753
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.5
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
- Bishop
- Andrés Sáinz Márquez
- Born
- 16 August 1969
- Birthplace
- Arandas
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Jesús María stands in Guadalupe Ocotán, 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 Guadalajara
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Guadalajara.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of GuadalajaraAhualulco de Mercado
- Diocese of AguascalientesAguascalientes
- Diocese of AutlánAhuacapán
- Diocese of Ciudad GuzmánCiudad Guzmán
- Diocese of ColimaAlcaraces
- Diocese of San Juan de los LagosSan Juan de los Lagos
- Diocese of TepicTepic
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Belén 24B, Col. Hermosa Provincia, 63197 Tepic, Nay., México
- Telephone
- [311]213-88-80; fax 214-23-42
- [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].