Diocese of Mazatlán
Mazatlanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Agua Verde, Sinaloa, Mexico
Latin rite diocese in Sinaloa, Mexico, established on November 22, 1958, and a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Durango. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mazatlan.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 November 1958
- Latin
- Mazatlanen(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002195
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 711,691
- Population
- 765,248
- Catholic share
- 93.0%
- Priests
- 91
- Catholics per priest
- 7,821
- Extent
- 19,112 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 37
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
- Bishop
- Mario Espinosa Contreras
- Born
- 22 November 1949
- Birthplace
- Tepic
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
Catedral Basilica de la Inmaculada Concepcion stands in Agua Verde, 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:
- Archdiocese of DurangoAbasolo
- Diocese of El SaltoCanelas
- Diocese of Gómez PalacioBermejillo
- Diocese of TorreónTorreón
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected in 1958, the Diocese of Mazatlán (Latin: Dioecesis Mazatlanensis) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Durango. In 1968, both the diocese and the archdiocese ceded territory for the creation of the Territorial Prelature of El Salto.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Apartado 1, Canizalez y Benito Juárez, 82000 Mazatlán, Sin., México
- Telephone
- e fax [669]981-04-28
- [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].