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Territorial Prelature of Huautla

Huautlen(sis)

Latin rite territorial prelature in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, erected 8 October 1972. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antequera (Oaxaca). The prelature serves a largely indigenous Mazatec population.

The see

Rank
Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
8 October 1972
Latin
Huautlen(sis)
Annuario code
001000268

The see in figures

Catholics
123,500
Priests
24
Catholics per priest
5,146
Extent
1,284 km²
Catholics per km²
96

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
Guadalupe Antonio Ruiz Urquin
Born
21 April 1971
Birthplace
Tapitula

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 de San Juan Evangelista stands in Huautla, 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 Antequera (Oaxaca)

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca.

The sees of this province:

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

History

A missionary territory of the Latin Church in Mexico, the Territorial Prelature of Huautla (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Huautlensis) was erected on 8 October 1972 and stands as a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan see of Antequera.

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.

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Sources

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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].