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Suffragan territorial prelature Mixes, Mexico

Territorial Prelature of Mixes

Mixepolitan(us)

Latin rite territorial prelature in the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico, erected 21 December 1964. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antequera (Oaxaca) and serves a largely indigenous Mixe population. It has long been entrusted to the Salesians of Don Bosco.

On the map

Esri
Mixes, Mexico, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1964
Catholics
128,000
Priests
34
Territory
10,000 km²

Parishes and churches

18 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Salvador Cleofas Murguia Villalobos, S.D.B.

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The cathedral

St. Peter und Paul in Ayutla stands in Mixes, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

A missionary territory of the Latin Church in Mexico, the Territorial Prelature of Mixes (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Mixepolitanus) belongs to the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera. Its name honors both the city of San Juan Juquila Mixes and the Mixe people, and its episcopal see is at Ayutla.