Diocese of Nogales
Nucen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nogales, Mexico
Latin rite diocese in northern Sonora, Mexico, erected 19 March 2015 from territory of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, of which it is a suffragan. Its seat is the Catedral Santuario de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe in Nogales. Its second bishop, Jose Luis Cerra Luna, was appointed on 20 June 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 March 2015
- Latin
- Nucen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002403
The see in figures
- Extent
- 44,243 km²
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
- Jose Luis Cerra Luna
- Born
- 24 July 1963
- Birthplace
- Torreón
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 Santuario de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe stands in Nogales, 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 Hermosillo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hermosillo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HermosilloAconchi
- Diocese of Ciudad ObregónCiudad Obregón
- Diocese of CuliacánCuliacán
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hermosillo in 2015, the Diocese of Nogales remains a suffragan of that see. Its cathedral is the Catedral Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in the city of Nogales, a municipal seat in the Mexican state of Sonora.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Latinos 193, Col. Fundo Legal, 84030 Nogales, Son., México
- Telephone
- [631]313-58-24
- [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].